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The startup was rejected 100 times before becoming a unicorn valued at 32 billion dollars.

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Canva is collaborating with Vietnam's National Innovation Center (NIC) to bring its design tools, aesthetic thinking, and AI features to students and teachers nationwide.

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According to Mr. Do Tien Thinh, Deputy Director of NIC, the collaboration seeks to bring Canva's design tools, aesthetic thinking, and artificial intelligence (AI) features to a wider audience, including students and teachers nationwide. NIC considers the story of founder Melanie Perkins, who started her business while still a student and overcame more than 100 failed funding attempts, a great source of inspiration for Vietnamese youth to dare to innovate and venture into the global market. The program also serves as a model for expanding the "tripartite" link (State - School - International Business), while materializing deep cooperation commitments in economy, technology, and education after Vietnam and Australia strengthened their Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Emphasizing the philosophy of "empowering the world to design," Mr. Lam Trung Quan, Country Director of Canva Vietnam, stated that the platform currently has over 260 million users in 190 countries and territories, who speak more than 100 languages. Canva has several million users in Vietnam's education sector and believes that the market potential remains very large. To contribute to the promotion of digital transformation and innovation in education, the company focuses on four pillars: ecosystem, teachers, students, and content. One of Canva's first projects is a teacher training program, based on the idea...

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Partnership

What this signalsA new partnership often opens integration and co-selling work.

Location
Vietnam

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  • National Innovation CenterPartnernationalinnovationcenter.org

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90%
Detected
Aug 31, 2026
signal_type
news
signal_subtype
partners_with

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    "title": "The startup was rejected 100 times before becoming a unicorn valued at 32 billion dollars. - Vietnam.vn",
    "excerpt": "According to Mr. Do Tien Thinh, Deputy Director of NIC, the collaboration seeks to bring Canva's design tools, aesthetic thinking, and artificial intelligence (AI) features to a wider audience, including students and teachers nationwide. NIC considers the story of founder Melanie Perkins, who started her business while still a student and overcame more than 100 failed funding attempts, a great source of inspiration for Vietnamese youth to dare to innovate and venture into the global market. The program also serves as a model for expanding the \"tripartite\" link (State - School - International Business), while materializing deep cooperation commitments in economy, technology, and education after Vietnam and Australia strengthened their Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Emphasizing the philosophy of \"empowering the world to design,\" Mr. Lam Trung Quan, Country Director of Canva Vietnam, stated that the platform currently has over 260 million users in 190 countries and territories, who speak more than 100 languages. Canva has several million users in Vietnam's education sector and believes that the market potential remains very large. To contribute to the promotion of digital transformation and innovation in education, the company focuses on four pillars: ecosystem, teachers, students, and content. One of Canva's first projects is a teacher training program, based on the idea...",
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