Vistaprint acquires Crello and Depositphotos, rebrands as Vista, to better take on Canva and others

guest · Oct 27, 2021

Vistaprint acquires Crello and Depositphotos, rebrands as Vista, to better take on Canva and others in online creative design for businesses
October 27, 2021
https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/27/v...ers-in-online-creative-design-for-businesses/

Vistaprint has built a name for itself in providing printing and marketing services for consumers, sole traders and small businesses. Now it is making a pair of acquisitions as it looks for better ways to square up to the opportunity to serve SMBs with digital services. The company is acquiring online graphic design editor Crello and an online graphic design editor that competes against Canva — and its parent company, stock photo repository Despositphotos — for a total price of $85 million.

Along with the acquisitions, Vistaprint is rebranding as just “Vista” and will be launching a new service powered by Crello called VistaCreate.
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The moves come as part of a wider $250 million investment that Vista, which is currently based in Ireland and is part of publicly traded Cimpress (and which has a number of other design brands under its umbrella), has been making into reviving and updating its platform and brand, which also included buying 99designs, a marketplace to source designers and their work, a year ago. It also recently linked a partnership with Wix to enable tighter integrations between its services and Wix’s website building services.

The plan is not to move away from print but to augment it.
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Vista does not disclose how many customers it has currently except to note that it is in the “millions.”

Crello, based out of Cyprus, appeared to be a bootstrapped company, but it had grown to a substantial size since being founded in 2017. The company also has “millions” of customers, and more specifically, it added 3 million this year alone, spanning some 150 countries. Its users create more than 1 million projects each month.

Depositphotos does not disclose its user numbers but says that it holds some 220 million royalty-free photos and other graphics created by some 100,000 contributors. The company is based out of New York and had raised just under $6 million, with investors including TMT Investments in London.
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VistaPrint: VistaPrint Evolves into Full-Service Design, Digital and Print Partner to Small Business with Launch of Vista

The brand evolution has been announced along with Vista’s acquisition of Depositphotos and its subsidiary Crello
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