Last updated July 17, 2024 – 2:06 p.m.
An early Canva and Spotify employee has joined the team at AI-powered “Canva for Audio” platform Wondercraft, just months after it launched in beta.
Didier Sibellas, Canva's first full-time product designer and head of digital design, has joined the company as founding head of design at Wondercraft.
He joins the company's global team of audio experts and engineers, which was co-founded by Oskar Serrander, former COO of Acast and early Spotify employee, and Palantir engineers Dimitris Nikolaou and Youssef Rizk. Several Spotify engineers have also recently joined the growing team.
Wondercraft's AI Audio Studio helps brands and creative teams script, voice, and produce studio-quality audio for ads, audiobooks, and podcasts in any language, with just input.
Dubbed “Canva for Audio” for its ability to simplify audio production, the Wondercraft platform features lifelike AI voices that can be commanded with absolute precision, seamless music and sound mixing, a versatile AI scripting and ad copy assistant, and audio translation tools.
Didier brings his design experience from Canva to the Wondercraft platform to create a user experience that fosters creativity and makes it easy for everyone to share their stories through audio, as well as enabling seamless creation of audio ads.
Didier Sibellas said: “Wondercraft reminds me of the early days of Canva. The focus and passion for making content and advertising creation accessible, fun and fast comes through clearly in every discussion with the team.”
“Aside from the obvious excitement about the value of the product and the opportunity, what was really striking to me was how the founders were coming together to build a mission-driven culture and tackle a tough problem in a simple, yet beautiful way.”
Oscar Selander, co-founder of Wondercraft, added: “We want to continue investing in world-class design and UX to serve and delight our rapidly growing user base of professional creators, brands and agencies, and what better place to find talent than among the most innovative design-focused brands in the world? We draw a lot of inspiration from Canva and are thrilled to welcome Didier to the team.”
Wondercraft launched from beta in February and is used by over 40,000 storytellers, creatives, audio ad producers and brands, including Acast and Diary of a CEO Steven Bartlett.
The platform is designed for both creators and creative teams, with a suite of team collaboration tools making it easy for creative teams at agencies and publishers to collaborate on audio projects with colleagues, clients and stakeholders.
