Founded in 2016 by data journalist Duncan Clark and computer scientist Robin Houston, Flourish grew out of the Kiln data-visualisation studio and joined Founders Factory's media accelerator, run in partnership with Guardian News & Media. Its no-code tool let newsrooms, governments and businesses turn raw data into beautiful, interactive charts, maps and stories, and was adopted by organisations including the BBC, Sky, Deloitte, Google and Moody's, reaching over 800,000 users.
In February 2022, Flourish was acquired by Canva, which brought its 44-person team into the company and installed co-founder Duncan Clark as Canva's Europe lead to build out data storytelling features across the platform.
