On April 8, 2026, Canva, the world’s leading visual communication platform, announced the acquisition of Ortto, a customer data and marketing automation company, as part of its continued investment in artificial intelligence and marketing infrastructure. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati advised Canva on the transaction.
Ortto combines a customer data platform with powerful marketing automation, enabling teams to design and orchestrate journeys across email, SMS, push notifications, in-app messaging, forms, and surveys, all within a single system. Canva’s acquisition of Ortto strengthens Canva Grow and builds on Canva’s recent additions of MagicBrief, MangoAI, and Doohly, accelerating its ability to power the full marketing and content lifecycle, from ideation and creation through to deployment, measurement, and optimization.
The Wilson Sonsini team that advised Canva on the acquisition included:
M&A
Rich Mullen
Kenji Strait
Zheng Zhou
Jessica Li
Corporate
David Segre
Employee Benefits and Compensation
David Thomas
Brandon Gantus
For more information, please see Canva’s news release and blog post. Additional coverage is available on TechCrunch.
