Founder of a listed tool
Sami Ede
Co-founder and Research Lead, Leonardo / Canva, named behind the Leonardo.Ai API listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Sami builds
Leonardo.Ai API F · Image generation
Leonardo's own Phoenix and Lucid image models alongside resold third-party ones (FLUX, GPT Image, Ideogram 3.0, Nano Banana, Seedream) through one v2 generations endpoint.
Co-founder and Research Lead, Leonardo / Canva, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Chris Gillis Co-founder, COO and CFO
- Ethan Smith Historical co-founder; former Canva global research lead per indexed profile
- Jachin Bhasme Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
- JJ Fiasson Co-founder; Leonardo CEO and Canva generative AI lead per Nov 2025 source
- Peter Runham Co-founder and CTO
Backed by
Smash Capital Blackbird Ventures Side Stage Ventures TIRTA Ventures Gaorong Capital Samsung
Questions
Who is Sami Ede?
Sami Ede is co-founder and Research Lead of Leonardo / Canva.
What does Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary) make?
Anchor Terminal lists Leonardo.Ai API from Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary). Leonardo's own Phoenix and Lucid image models alongside resold third-party ones (FLUX, GPT Image, Ideogram 3.0, Nano Banana, Seedream) through one v2 generations endpoint.
Who has invested in Leonardo.Ai (Canva subsidiary)?
The sources our research read name Smash Capital, Blackbird Ventures, Side Stage Ventures, TIRTA Ventures, Gaorong Capital and Samsung.
How are Sami's tools graded?
Leonardo.Ai API is graded F, 37.7 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (14)
- https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/ai-vision-november-2025/
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jachinb_exciting-news-im-so-thrilled-to-share-activity-7223922727240265730-YUoO
- https://au.linkedin.com/in/jj-fiasson
- https://vercel.com/customers/leonardo-ai-performantly-generates-4-5-million-images-daily-with-next-js-and-vercel
- https://au.linkedin.com/in/peterrunham
- https://au.linkedin.com/in/jachinb
- https://au.linkedin.com/in/sami-ede
- https://au.linkedin.com/in/chris-gillis-08a62832
- https://www.ethansmith2000.com
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-smith-0b4937196
- https://x.com/torchcompiled
- https://leonardo.ai/
- https://docs.leonardo.ai/docs/need-more-support
- https://leonardo.ai/api
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