{"id":156304,"date":"2023-01-26T13:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T19:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/this-startup-hopes-to-take-on-canva-raising-an-11-6m-series-a-for-its-design-platform"},"modified":"2023-01-26T13:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T19:26:03","slug":"this-startup-hopes-to-take-on-canva-raising-an-11-6m-series-a-for-its-design-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/this-startup-hopes-to-take-on-canva-raising-an-11-6m-series-a-for-its-design-platform","title":{"rendered":"This startup hopes to take on Canva, raising an $11.6M Series A for its design platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-startup-hopes-to-take-on-canva-raising-an-11-6m-series-a-for-its-design-platform.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite Canva being worth in the region of $26 billion, it appears startups feel there is still plenty to be mined from this ;easy-to-use design platform\u2019 arena. Admittedly, Professional Adobe tools remain fiddly for most people. Perhaps that\u2019s why Berlin-based startup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kittl.com\/\">Kittl<\/a> has now raised an \u20ac10.8 million ($11.6 million) Series A for its design platform which it claims allow people to \u201ceasily turn ideas into graphic products\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The latest funding round was led by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftlanecap.com\">Left Lane Capital<\/a>. Also participating was Europe\u2019s Speedinvest and a number of angel investors including Intercom Co-Founder Des Traynor, former Bebo CEO Shaan Puri, and product leaders from Calm, Amazon and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Canva being worth in the region of $26 billion, it appears startups feel there is still plenty to be mined from this ;easy-to-use design platform\u2019 arena. Admittedly, Professional Adobe tools remain fiddly for most people. Perhaps that\u2019s why Berlin-based startup. Kittl has now raised an \u20ac10.8 million ($11.6 million) Series A for its design [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}