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Nilesh Pathak is Isobar India CTO
MUMBAI: Digital agency Isobar India which is part of the Aegis Media India group has appointed Nilesh Pathak as its chief technology officer, in keeping with its technology thrust.
Now the agency will also endeavour to become India‘s fastest growing tech agency, servicing both global and national clients from India.
He is a technology leader with over 16 years of experience building high quality enterprise software for various domains using wide range of methodologies and technologies. He comes to Isobar India, from JP Morgan (India). At JP Morgan as VP, his responsibilities included providing technology leadership to its Treasury Services platforms. During this time he managed technology deliveries of large scale enterprise applications while growing technology quotient of the teams in India.
Prior to JP Morgan, Nilesh had been one of the co-founders of Vizualize Technologies (now LBi India). He was one of the key players in growing Visualize Technologies from a single digit team to over 100.
Isobar India MD Shamsuddin Jasani said, “Nilesh is joining us at a very exciting time in Isobar. Technology will play a key role in our goal to become the most sought after digital agency and nilesh will play a key role as a member of our senior management team to make this happen.”
Pathak said, “I am very thrilled to be part of one of the fastest growing digital agency and look forward to take Isobar India to next level. With digital marketing spends on the rise this is perfect timing for Isobar India to be further reinforcing its technical expertise and delivery capabilities.”
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Canva acquires animation and AI startups Cavalry and MangoAI
The deals strengthen Canva’s push into enterprise and AI-led design workflows
AUSTRALIA: Global visual communication platform Canva has stepped up its acquisition drive, buying UK-based 2D animation platform Cavalry and US-based AI startup MangoAI to deepen its AI-powered creative stack.
Cavalry, whose tools are used by brands including Amazon, Meta, Google and Netflix, will strengthen Canva’s motion design capabilities. The deal builds on Canva’s 2024 acquisition of Affinity, which has crossed four million downloads since launch. With Cavalry, Canva now counts seven Europe-based acquisitions, underscoring its global expansion strategy.
MangoAI, an early-stage startup focused on video advertising optimisation, will integrate its reinforcement learning systems into Canva AI. The move aims to enable brands to generate personalised marketing content in real time, cutting production cycles while improving campaign performance. MangoAI co-founder Vinith Misra will join Canva as reinforcement learning lead in its research lab.
Canva co-founder and chief operating officer Cliff Obrecht said the acquisitions reflect the company’s ambition to make professional-grade creative tools more accessible without sidelining human creativity. The goal, he said, is to bring everything from vector to motion design into a single, integrated suite.
The company now reports 265 million active users, including 31 million paid subscribers, and $4 billion in annualised revenue, up 36 per cent year on year. The latest buys further position Canva against rivals such as Adobe and Apple’s Creator Studio as it pushes deeper into enterprise workflows.
Canva head of pro design marketing Liam Fisher, said AI is intended to act as a creative assistant rather than a replacement, reinforcing the primacy of craft and individual design judgement.
