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Canvera,a web-enabled photobook company was founded in 2008 by Dhiraj Thacker and Peeyush Rai. Based in Bangalore,Canvera was set up to provide solutions to professional photographers in India.In addition to offering design solutions and printing photobooks, they provide hosted software solutions with a software-as-a-service model (SaaS). The company has offices in Chandigarh, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Mumbai.

Introduction
Canvera launched the Vivyo platform as an e-commerce portal for photographers to market their work and collaborate with their customers. Today, Canvera has over 20,000 professional photographers on board across 400 cities in India. It launched the largest photographers' directory in the country. Canvera released the industry's first photobook viewing mobile app in 2015.

Funding
Its first round of funding began with Footprint Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mumbai Angels and two UK-based angel investors in 2008. In 2012 Info Edge invested Rs.35 crore for a 23% stake in the company. In 2014, Info Edge collectively invested Rs.20.5 Crore in the company.

Management
Peeyush Rai, now the Chief Technology Officer at Canvera, graduated from IIT Mumbai. It was here that he met co-founder (and now CEO) Dhiraj Thacker.

Other Management at Canvera currently includes, Ranjit Yadav CEO An alumnus of IIM Bangalore, before Canvera, Ranjit Yadav was an integral part of Samsung. Sumant Kumar joined the Canvera team as Vice President of sales and Marketing in 2014. Kanupriya Sindhu is Canvera's Vice President Product Marketing.

Recognition
Recipent of the TiE-Lumis Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence.

Recipient of the Best Photobook in Asia Pacific & Japan HP Digital Print Awards in 2014.

Recipient of the Best Innovation in Technology award by Asian Photography magazine in 2010.

Peeyush Rai and Dhiraj Thacker have been recognised by the Asian Photography Magazine to be among the top 10 most influential people in photography.