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December 16, 2013 08:14 pm GMT
Deck, a mobile-first app that lets users create presentations on the go, has raised a $600,000 seed round from Qualcomm Ventures and angel investors led by Sabeer Bhatia, the Hotmail co-founder. The Bangalore-based startup of the same name says it will be using the funds to hire people — it’s recently picked up designers whose teeth were cut working on Avatar — and to expand internationally. Deck is coming into the market at an opportune moment. It’s amazing how much room for innovation has been left unaddressed by PowerPoint to allow more startups launch in the online presentation space. We have seen how Prezi has been growing its user base, and hiring aggressively to reach 36 million users by the end of this year. Last year, Deck also received $100,000 from Qualcomm Ventures’ QPrize in prize money, the startup’s founder Sumanth Raghavendra tells me.Deck is available as an app on Android and iOS. The app has already seen around 300k downloads since its beta version was launched in March this year. Bhatia, who is backing Sumanth for the second time (he put seed money in Sumanth’s last venture called InstaColl, which has closed), says that while the idea may not be particularly new, what Deck brings is an ease of use that speaks to where many users, particularly in countries like India, are going online today — on hand-held devices. Specifically, while these may still be mainly used for consumption of content, we are starting to see a wave of applications that are helping people use smartphones and tablets also to create dynamic content — beyond simple status updates or selfies for their social networks of choice. “Deck really allows a novice user to express his/her creativity in a way that was not possible before,” Bhatia says. (Other new apps that are taking this route include Bret Taylor’s Quip word processing app). “To enable this, we have removed all design distractions and formatting decisions from the user’s purview. Each theme is unique and guaranteed to support your story with great graphics, animation and typography,” says Raghavendra. It’s tough to build a software product anywhere in the world, and even tougher in India because of lack of talent in the area of user experience (UX), according to Bhatia. “Over the years, I have seen some pretty good quality software developed by them. It is unfortunate that their previous products were not
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Deck, A Cloud-Based Presentation App From India, Raises $600K From Qualcomm, Hotmail Co-Founder
Deck, a mobile-first app that lets users create presentations on the go, has raised a $600,000 seed round from Qualcomm Ventures and angel investors led by Sabeer Bhatia, the Hotmail co-founder. The Bangalore-based startup of the same name says it will be using the funds to hire people — it’s recently picked up designers whose teeth were cut working on Avatar — and to expand internationally. Deck is coming into the market at an opportune moment. It’s amazing how much room for innovation has been left unaddressed by PowerPoint to allow more startups launch in the online presentation space. We have seen how Prezi has been growing its user base, and hiring aggressively to reach 36 million users by the end of this year. Last year, Deck also received $100,000 from Qualcomm Ventures’ QPrize in prize money, the startup’s founder Sumanth Raghavendra tells me.Deck is available as an app on Android and iOS. The app has already seen around 300k downloads since its beta version was launched in March this year. Bhatia, who is backing Sumanth for the second time (he put seed money in Sumanth’s last venture called InstaColl, which has closed), says that while the idea may not be particularly new, what Deck brings is an ease of use that speaks to where many users, particularly in countries like India, are going online today — on hand-held devices. Specifically, while these may still be mainly used for consumption of content, we are starting to see a wave of applications that are helping people use smartphones and tablets also to create dynamic content — beyond simple status updates or selfies for their social networks of choice. “Deck really allows a novice user to express his/her creativity in a way that was not possible before,” Bhatia says. (Other new apps that are taking this route include Bret Taylor’s Quip word processing app). “To enable this, we have removed all design distractions and formatting decisions from the user’s purview. Each theme is unique and guaranteed to support your story with great graphics, animation and typography,” says Raghavendra. It’s tough to build a software product anywhere in the world, and even tougher in India because of lack of talent in the area of user experience (UX), according to Bhatia. “Over the years, I have seen some pretty good quality software developed by them. It is unfortunate that their previous products were notOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/g0D5ldcFwko/
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