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  "markdown": "Co-founder and COO, Canva.\n\nCliff Obrecht co-founded Canva in 2013 with Melanie Perkins and Cameron Adams and is its chief operating officer. He and Perkins have pledged most of their wealth to charitable causes through the Canva Foundation.\n\n## What Cliff builds\n\n- [Canva REST APIs + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/canva.md), graded B, 65.3/100, in Programmatic asset production. Canva's REST APIs and hosted MCP server connect applications and agents to its design platform. Co-founder and COO, Canva, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Cameron Adams](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/cameron-adams/), Co-founder, Canva\n- [Melanie Perkins](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/melanie-perkins/), Co-founder and CEO, Canva\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Blackbird Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/blackbird-ventures/)\n- [Felicis](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/felicis/)\n- [Bill Tai](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/bill-tai/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Cliff Obrecht?\n\nCliff Obrecht co-founded Canva in 2013 with Melanie Perkins and Cameron Adams and is its chief operating officer. He and Perkins have pledged most of their wealth to charitable causes through the Canva Foundation.\n\n### What does Canva make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Canva REST APIs + MCP from Canva. Canva's REST APIs and hosted MCP server connect applications and agents to its design platform.\n\n### Who has invested in Canva?\n\nThe sources our research read name Blackbird Ventures, Felicis and Bill Tai.\n\n### How are Cliff's tools graded?\n\nCanva REST APIs + MCP is graded B, 65.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.canva.dev/docs/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canva\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Perkins\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Obrecht\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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