DeckRobot Raises $1.5 Million To Generate PowerPoint Slides Using AI

The San Francisco-based startup raised $1.5m in a recent seed round led by Alexander Nevinskiy and Matrix Capital, with participation from Charles Songhurst (former #2 Microsoft executive and an early investor in Affirm, Convoy, Formlabs and Classpass). Frederick Daso: What causes office employees to sink ample amounts of time into slide decks or PowerPoint presentations? In reality, we see that even the drug discovery teams have to present their findings in slides for their management, leave alone the investment bankers and consultants for whom PowerPoint is the bread and butter. Urban: Gartner doesnt cover our market niche yet, but you can get a pretty good idea of the dynamics if you look at the growth pace of our competitor Think Cell: for the last ten years, they grew tenfold and kept going well. Daso: How is the AI in DeckRobot trained to properly produce accurate templates of a companys PowerPoint design and information presentation?