Announcing our $1.4M seed funding | Clueso
Summary
By the time it ended, we had 0.For over a year, my co-founders, Prajwal, Neel, and I had been building a startup called Desklamp out of college. Our confidence was sky-high, and the ultimate validation came when we were accepted into YC.However, as soon as we landed in SF, our YC group partners told us they hated our product. The three of us had different ideas of what we wanted to build and were at each others necks.At that point, Michael Seibel, group partner at YC, gave us some great advice: solve for a problem you faced at Desklamp. It took up to two weeks to get a video out between preparing the script, arranging for a voice actor, recording in the studio, adding animation effects and music, etc.In the US alone, companies spend nearly $102 B every year on employee training [1], across a variety of functions: engineering, sales, operations, customer support, and more. It replaces their audio track with a professional, natural-sounding AI voiceover Finally, Clueso adds zoom-in effects and custom branding to every video.Clueso also creates a written article for every video: Our product smartly takes screenshots and GIFs at key moments AI generates the ideal text tailored to the specific context, be it a knowledge-base article, a feature launch post, or more.In our entire time building Desklamp, we only managed to create 5 videos over the course of an entire year.