Melanie Perkins

At 25, Melanie is already a serial entrepreneur who raised one of Australia’s largest early stage VC fundraisers after pitching the concept of Canva, a disruptive platform allowing anyone to create professional quality designs, to venture capitalists and angels in Silicon Valley and Australia. At 19, Melanie founded Fusion Books, an online design system for schools to create their yearbooks. This is now the biggest yearbook company in Australia and has expanded to France and New Zealand.