It’s one of the rising stars of global tech, but the online design firm Canva has been making headlines around the world for a publicity event that made headlines for the wrong reasons.

Canva is an Australian made success story, and the company’s founders have been in the US spruiking the business to investors ahead of a possible sharemarket listing.

But at an investors’ session in LA, Canva’s road show fell a bit flat, thanks to a particularly bad bit of  in house rap music.