DeckRobot

DeckRobot is the startup founded in 2017 by Russian Anton Urbanas who was the consultant of McKinsey and the graduate of the HSE. The company develops the service of the same name for creation of the presentations in PowerPoint by means of artificial intelligence. DeckRobot developed the AI engine for design and formatting of difficult presentation slides. Service allows to load earlier created presentations into base and to create automatically new in the same style. The office of the company by the beginning of October, 2020 is in San Francisco.

History

2020: Attraction of $1.5 million investments

On October 1, 2020 about $1.5 million investments became known of attraction by DeckRobot company. The Matrix Capital fund (Russia), the partner of I2BF venture fund Alexander Nevinsky and the former chief executive of Microsoft Charles Songkherst invested in a startup. How many money was selected by each of investors and what share in DeckRobot they received, is not specified.

Less than 1% of users of PowerPoint are professional designers, and they are quite capable to work wonders with slides — the CEO of DeckRobot Anton Urbanas says, commenting on the investment attraction. — Unfortunately, most of users of PowerPoint have no art skills at the level of great designers … We used thousands and thousands of real slides of PowerPoint for training of our AI general model. She is capable to adapt to style of each client.

The DeckRobot AI service in PowerPoint with the Russian roots attracted $1.5 million to creation of the presentations

It is noted that DeckRobot trained artificial intelligence at "thousands" of real PowerPoint presentations — it is capable to adapt to style of each client. The plug-in also works with Google services of Slides and Keynote.

According to own data of DeckRobot, use service of the company worldwide, including in the USA, in the countries of Europe of the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia and also in India, Japan and Australia. ^[1]

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