Quiet Capital is a technology investment firm.

Quiet Capital

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a large number of startups twice a year. It created a new model for funding startups. Twice a year, the company invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups. The startup accelerator works intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

Y Combinator

FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab. FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more; FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.

FundersClub

NBM is a specialized firm that successfully pioneered global digital-media investing over the last decade, backing successes like IDN Media in Indonesia, Pocket Aces in India, TheNewsLens in Taiwan and Capital Digital in Mexico. Its first venture fund, launched in 2015, consistently ranks in the top quartile of media and global venture funds. The Fund, which has been backed by several of the world’s leading media brands, is now open to other investors as its investment team moves to take advantage of the sudden rise of opportunities and new valuations in the global media landscape.   NBM’s co-founders are Marcus Brauchli, the former top editor at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal; Sasa Vucinic, the longtime CEO of the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF). The firm’s general counsel is Stuart Karle, former COO of Reuters and General Counsel of the Journal.

North Base Media

Greycroft is a venture capital firm that focuses on technology start-ups and investments in the Internet and mobile markets. With offices in two of the most important business hubs in the world, New York and Los Angeles Greycroft uniquely positioned to serve entrepreneurs who have chosen us as their partners. The firm leverages an extensive network of media and technology industry connections to help entrepreneurs gain visibility, build strategic relationships, bring their products to market, and build successful businesses.  Greycroft manages in excess of $1 billion and has made over 200 investments since its inception in leading companies including Acorns, App Annie, Bird, Botkeeper, Bright Health, Boxed, Braintree, Buddy Media, Everything But The House, Extreme Reach, Huffington Post, Icertis, JW Player, Maker Studios, Plated, Scopely, Shipt, TheRealReal, Thrive Market, Trunk Club, Venmo, WideOrbit, and Yeahka. Greycroft has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

Greycroft

Gaingels is a venture investment syndicate in service of the LGBT+ community and its allies, investing in companies with LGBT+ founders and C-suite leaders at all stages of growth, as well as in more established companies resolved on building more inclusive teams, with a global portfolio of 130+ companies and $70M in deployed investment capital to date.  The Gaingels network also actively supports its portfolio in identifying and recruiting diverse talent to their C-suite and board leadership teams and fosters a vibrant global community of industry leaders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurs who share a common goal for positive social change through business and successful investments.

Gaingels

BossaNova is the number one Brazilian Micro Venture Capital. We are the most active investor in the pre-seed stage in Latin America with more than 1200 investments in over 1000 Startups. We also invest in global companies, directly or through co-investment syndicates on AngelList.

Bossanova Investimentos

UpVentures Capital is an early-stage investor that makes minority investments in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies. It prefers to invest in companies from the software and technology sectors. The firm invests in early-stage technology companies, primarily in Upstate NY but also NY metro, Silicon Valley, and other locations where its relationships extend to help entrepreneurs start and grow companies. UpVentures Capital was established in 2014 and is headquartered in Little Falls, New York.

UpVentures Capital

Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to build and forge long-standing companies. Their portfolio includes pinterest, shopify, twilio, yelp, linkedin, pagerduty, docusign, wix, fiverr, and toast, and has $19 billion of assets under management.

Bessemer Venture Partners

B Capital Group backs brash entrepreneurs building technology companies. With offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Singapore, B Capital Group focuses on pioneering start-ups that are ready to scale across the global stage. Partnering with Boston Consulting Group, and its incubation arm BCG Digital Ventures, B Capital delivers access to top corporations to match start-ups with the world's most powerful CEOs, platforms, and brands. B Capital Group's unique multinational presence, combined with deep industry expertise, has built a portfolio of B2B and B2B2C startups that are transforming large traditional industries across borders and geographies. It helps startups navigate business challenges, raise capital, and attract talented leadership at key points of their journeys to scale.

B Capital

Leena AI

Leena AI is an autonomous conversational AI-backed platform that helps enterprises better employee experience.  The platform is powerful, flexible, and made to meets the needs of any enterprise.  With Leena AI, companies can eliminate the need for HR staff to work on tasks such as answering policy-related questions, knowledge management, generating employee documents on demand, and managing employee tickets so they can focus on high-value activities. Leena AI plays well with 20 plus platforms, including SAP SuccessFactors, ADP, Oracle, Workday, and Microsoft Office 365. It is trusted by 1M employees across companies like Nestle, Puma, AirAsia, Coca-cola, Lafarge Holcim, and Abbott. The platform is capable of handling every aspect of employee experience across the employee lifecycle. From FAQ automation and employee engagement right up to employee onboarding, the platform aims to help organizations streamline all HR workflows.

<div>Leena AI is a graduate of the 2018 Y Combinator Summer cohort. Leena’s product offering has expanded since then, from HR chatbots to broader HR tools such as artificial intelligence (AI) based employee ticketing software and employee engagement tools. The platform was launched in 2017 and integrates with HRIS providers (ADP, Workday, and Oracle) and popular productivity tools (Microsoft Teams and Slack).</div>

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Remote Work Infrastructure

<div>Leena AI, a graduate of YCombinator&rsquo;s Summer 2018 accelerator, offers an employee experience platform for human resources. Leena AI integrates with HR systems like Workday and communication platforms like Teams and Slack to automate simple and repetitive HR tasks. The platform offers the following features:</div>

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 Leena AI is a graduate of the 2018 Y Combinator Summer cohort. Leena’s product offering has expanded since then, from HR chatbots to broader HR tools such as artificial intelligence (AI) based employee ticketing software and employee engagement tools. The platform was launched in 2017 and integrates with HRIS providers (ADP, Workday, and Oracle) and popular productivity tools (Microsoft Teams and Slack).
 
 
 In September 2021, the company raised USD 30 million in a Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The round also included the participation of B Capital Group and Greycroft. Leena AI is expected to use the new funds for product development and expansion into new segments in IT, sales, and finance by early 2022.
 
 
 As of September 2021, the platform is used by more than 3 million employees across 60 countries. The company also reported year-over-year revenue growth of 300% in the first 9 months of 2021. It has gained new customers including Bayer, Al-Jazeera, HDFC Bank, Reserve Bank of India, Houston Methodist, Odessa, and Icertis since its Series A funding round in November 2020.
 
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ActivTrak is a cloud-based productivity monitoring software provider. The platform offers data and analytics which can be used to detect workplace productivity gaps. The platform collects data from employee activity logs and computer screenshots, although it does not log keystrokes or record video of a user’s screen. ActivTrak also facilitates a range of tasks for admins such as blocking websites, flagging suspicious activities, IP address connections, and monitoring web, and app traffic.Other features offered include productivity reports and coaching, headcount and workload management and personal insights. In November 2023, the company added capabilities to measure the usage of AI tools, automatically detecting and classifying the use of such tools and websites to help organizations manage and improve AI adoption across the workforce.Activtrak generates revenue via monthly subscriptions (USD 10 and USD 17) per user, and custom pricing for larger enterprises.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, over 9,500 enterprises used ActivTrak’s platform, notably including Allstate, asembia and Nobu. ActivTrak closed 2023 with a 40% growth in its customer base (adding ~2,200 customers).Funding and financialsIn November 2020, ActivTrak raised USD 50 million in a Series B round led by Sapphire Ventures. Sapphire Ventures CEO and managing director joined ActivTrak’s board as part of the deal. The new proceeds were earmarked for scaling global sales and marketing campaigns, expansion of its platform using AI driven analytics, and improving integration with its technology partners.

ActivTrak

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 inFeedo is a people predictive analytics company based in India. The Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2013 is currently focused on “Amber” (launched in 2016), an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled bot that helps manage employee engagement, predict attrition, and get a pulse on company culture in real time. 
 
 
 The company claims it has achieved annual revenue of USD 1.6 million as of November 2020, with more than 175 customers and 300,000+ users across 60 countries as of March 2022. Its clients include GE Healthcare, Puma, Tata Group, and Lenovo.
 
 
 In its latest funding round (
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 ). inFeedo raised USD 12 million in Series A funding led by Jungle Ventures, reportedly tripling its valuation from less than 18 months ago. The fresh funds will be used for its second employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) buyback for all employees and its go-to-market activities in North America. In the next two years, the company planned to triple its product line, quadruple revenue, and double its team. As of March 2022, inFeedo was hiring for 140 remote roles across multiple functions in Southeast Asia, India, and the US.
 
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inFeedo

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 Donut provides solutions to keep employees engaged with casual conversations. Its first product, Intros, makes connections between teammates via Slack to emulate quick meetups and in-person introductions at work, which are now virtual. 
 
 
 Donut’s new product, Watercooler, launched in October 2020. It attempts to reinvent the micro-interactions between employees at the office watercooler online. The product will integrate with Slack, where a newly-designated channel for Watercooler will be created. The product will post questions automatically within the customers’ desired frequency and pre-selected topics.
 
 
 The company claims it has supported four million connections (one million since the Covid-19 pandemic) across its 12,000 customers, including companies such as Okta, Zapier, Slack, The New York Times, and Invision.
 
 
 Donut announced a USD 12 million funding round along with its new product, Watercooler. The funding was led by Accel, with participation from Bloomberg Beta, FirstMark, Slack Fund, and multiple angel investors. The company uses a freemium subscription model with paid plans starting at approximately USD 2 per user per month.
 
 
 The company announced that the USD 12 million raised, which was accumulated over multiple rounds before the Covid-19 pandemic, will be used for product development.
 
 
 
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Donut

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 Matter is an employee feedback platform founded by Brett Hellman. Hellman was the founder of messaging app &ldquo;Hall&rdquo;, which was founded in 2011 and later sold to Atlassian for USD 20 million in 2015.
 
 
 Matter uses 360-degree feedback to evaluate skills in employees which are linked to career success. The platform links skills such as influence, inclusiveness, empathy, resourcefulness, and multitasking to evaluations. Matter is currently available in beta.
 
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Matter

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 Mesh is a Y Combinator-backed company that allows employees to set goals, track tasks, share feedback, and engage in one-on-ones. Its subscription plans start at USD 6 per month per user. As of April 2022, Mesh has served over 1,000 teams across five continents.
 
 
 In its most recent funding round (
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 . The fresh funds will be used to expand its global footprint across the US and APAC regions. In line with this, the company plans to expand its headcount across the engineering and sales departments.
 
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Mesh

Solutions in this industry hub are predominantly offered under a B2B SaaS model

Employee and performance management solutions use AI/Ml to infer engagement insights and sentiment analysis

Offers tools for companies to hire contractors globally, and conduct employee and performance management

Companies that offer the entire spectrum of HR tools including payroll processing benefits, onboarding, compliance, analytics, scheduling etc

Companies offering tools to infer employee morale (through surveys and quick assessments) and productivity, including functions for goal setting, review, and feedback.

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 Leena AI, a graduate of YCombinator&rsquo;s Summer 2018 accelerator, offers an employee experience platform for human resources. Leena AI integrates with HR systems like Workday and communication platforms like Teams and Slack to automate simple and repetitive HR tasks. The platform offers the following features:
 
 
 1) Employee onboarding: Automates onboarding processes for new hires, engages new employees using a virtual agent chatbot, and provides dropout predictions and engagement analytics
 
 
 2) HR service delivery: Answers routine queries like remaining vacation time or insurance, provides access to personal data and documents like pay slips and tax information, acts as a document management system, automates knowledge base management, and provides centralized analytics
 
 
 3) Employee engagement: A virtual agent platform for conversational employee feedback, smart surveys, and automated action planning tools, provides employee sentiment analytics, attrition predictions, and engagement trends
 
 
 &nbsp;4) Employee relationship management: A unified employee information and interaction platform
 
 
 Leena AI leverages several underlying AI models, including OpenAI&rsquo;s GPT-3, for its query response and workflow automation.The company launched a new proprietary large language model (LLM) called &ldquo;WorkLM&rdquo; in May 2023, which is based on 2 TB of curated proprietary data acquired by Leena AI over seven years.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 As of June 2023, Leena counted The Coca-Cola Company, Puma Apparel, and UHA Health Insurance among its customers.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 Leena raised external funding in a USD 30 million Series B held in September 2021 led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The then-new capital was utilized to fund product innovation and expand its offering to additional verticals including finance, IT, and sales.
 
 
 
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 Forethought offers a unified customer support platform based on generative AI. Its primary product is &ldquo;SupportGPT,&rdquo; a conversational AI chatbot that can build workflows, resolve queries, assist human agents, and fill knowledge gaps.&nbsp;
 
 
 Forethought&rsquo;s solutions include:
 
 
 1) Solve: A generative AI chatbot that independently handles simple but repetitive customer service tickets. The AI automatically analyzes historical customer service logs and knowledge documents to generate responses.&nbsp;
 
 
 2) Assist: Assists human agents by automatically generating responses to end users based on conversation history, provides context by analyzing past tickets, and draws on&nbsp; knowledge articles to help resolve queries.
 
 
 3) Triage: Analyzes ticket details and historical data to prioritize and route tickets to the correct agents
 
 
 4) Discover: Analyzes customer service history to generate new knowledge articles or recommend new workflows where gaps exist
 
 
 Forethought also offers a platform called &ldquo;SupportGPT Playground,&rdquo; which allows customers to train and experiment with SupportGPT using their own data. In September 2023, the company launched Autoflows that uses natural language prompts to undertake a series of tasks in order to automate customer service interactions.&nbsp;
 
 
 As of April 2023, Forethought&rsquo;s solutions were available for integration on several customer service platforms, including Zendesk, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Freshdesk, Dialpad, and Talkdesk.
 
 
 The platform leverages 
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 &rsquo;s large language models (LLMs), using the same technology as ChatGPT, along with its own algorithms to limit the data that the AI model can access. This reduces the possibility of completely incorrect responses (hallucinations)&mdash;a documented issue with unconstrained LLMs such as ChatGPT. It does this by using the algorithms to generate a query that is submitted to the large AI model as a guide, which allows responses to be more specific to a customer&rsquo;s workflow.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 At its launch in March 2023, its customers included Kickfin and Upwork. As of April 2023, Forethought&rsquo;s customers included Lime, iFIT, Achievers, Q4 Inc., Etekcity, Beeline, Uncommon Goods, Spoonflower, Kajabi, and PDQ.
 
 
 In October 2023, Forethought joined the 
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 Funding and Financials
 
 
 In December 2021, Forethought raised USD 65 million in a Series C funding round led by Steadfast Capital to accelerate growth. Total raised funding stood at USD 92 million as of April 2023. In 2021, the company reported an increase in annual recurring revenue (ARR) by 5x.&nbsp;
 
 
 
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Forethought

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 Got It AI has developed a ChatGPT-like conversational chatbot for enterprise Q&amp;A applications. Its solutions include:
 
 
 1)&nbsp; ArticleBot: A virtual agent solution that analyzes an organization&rsquo;s customer service articles or external knowledge sources to provide accurate conversational support in customer service and employee workflow applications&nbsp;
 
 
 2) AutoFlows: A tool that helps analyze customer service voice, chat logs and other data to identify the dialogue paths in a given workflow and build them into a virtual agent. AutoFlows requires no code; integration with customer systems is assisted by a human team
 
 
 3) Truth Checker: An advanced AI that can identify if an AI is &ldquo;hallucinating,&rdquo; a common issue with large language models (LLMs) causing incorrect response generation. Truth Checker is able to detect when a response generated for a customer query is irrelevant or entirely incorrect, preventing the response from being delivered to the user and providing links to knowledge articles, if so.&nbsp;
 
 
 As of January 2023, ArticleBot operated on a fine-tuned version of Davinci-3, a variant of OpenAI&rsquo;s GPT-3.5 LLM, trained on a database defined by the organization alongside Got It&rsquo;s proprietary &ldquo;Truth Checker&rdquo; AI.&nbsp;
 
 
 For customers unwilling to use a large open-source LLM via an API or those that are unable to operate an expensive LLM on-premises, Got It offers its own proprietary Enterprise Language Model Architecture (ELMAR). Launched in March 2023, ELMAR is smaller than models like GPT-3 and can be run on readily available hardware. Combined with input scanning and Truth Checker AI, ELMAR is able to match larger models for accuracy in narrower enterprise workflows, such as customer Q&amp;A.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 As of June 2022, Got It AI&rsquo;s customers included crowdfunding website Indiegogo and baby care product brand Frida.
 
 
 In October 2023, Got It AI partnered with 
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 AI Solutions to integrate its ELMAR platform with NVIDIA's AI technologies.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 Got It AI has raised a total of USD 22.5 million in funding as of April 2023 across several rounds and emerged from stealth in June 2022. Got It AI&rsquo;s co-founder and venture capitalist Peter Relan has participated in several of the firm&rsquo;s funding rounds.
 
 
 
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Got It AI

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 Persado is a &ldquo;motivation&rdquo; platform generating marketing content using machine learning. The platform recognizes different customers based on their reactions to language and uses those insights to generate personalized content that engages across all channels (web, email, ads, etc.) Persado&rsquo;s use cases include:
 
 
 1) Personalization: Identifying what content will motivate each customer to generate personalized messaging across all marketing channels
 
 
 2) Acquisition: Using personalized messaging for higher conversion rates in customer acquisition campaigns
 
 
 3) Onboarding: Personalizing content for each individual and engaging customers from the day of acquisition
 
 
 4) Retention: Keeping customers engaged using personalized messaging for renewals, loyalty programs, and upgrades
 
 
 5) Pre-collections: Promoting on-time payments using encouraging language and providing clear instructions&nbsp;
 
 
 6) Customer service: Encouraging customers to follow self-service prompts
 
 
 In August 2023, Persado launched 
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 to help marketers create emotionally resonant messages, to drive customer engagement and conversion rates. The company unveiled 
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 to this in March 2024, including new product descriptions, segment personalization, brand alignment scores, and web copy optimization, aimed at improving marketing content effectiveness.
 
 
 The Persado platform, based on a proprietary language model, uses a large consumer behavior database of historical interactions (1.2 billion consumers and over 100 billion interactions) to determine what qualities of a message appeal to consumers. Given a set of keywords as input, it leverages deep-learning transformer models to generate messages that are most likely to bring conversions, ensuring the content is in line with a customer&rsquo;s brand using specially trained language models.&nbsp;
 
 
 Over time, Persado uses machine-learning experimentation and decision-making to identify how messages cause each consumer to behave, enabling additional personalization for each future communication. The platform can also directly integrate with customer data platforms (CDPs) to leverage consumer language profiles.
 
 
 Persado also integrates with common marketing tools to fit into marketing teams&rsquo; workflows, providing detailed dashboards and analytics to visualize the impact of each piece of content.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Persado partnered with digital journey continuity platform Namogoo in May 2023, integrating its dynamic motivation platform with Namogoo&rsquo;s customer intent and segmentation database to allow ecommerce stores to dynamically adapt their messaging for individual customers.&nbsp;
 In March 2024, it partnered with 
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 to leverage Persado's language knowledge base and GenAI tools to enhance commerce and marketing experiences across diverse sectors.
 
 
 Persado&rsquo;s customers as of April 2023 include Vanguard Group, Marks &amp; Spencer, Chase Bank, Emirates NBD, and Vodafone.
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 Persado raised USD 30 million in a Series C funding round held in April 2016 led by Goldman Sachs. The funds were for enhancing distribution and product development.&nbsp;
 
 
 
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Persado

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 Founded in 2022, SellScale is a GenAI-driven sales and marketing outbound platform that streamlines sales communication, which originated during the founders' work on the 
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 newsletter. This led to SellScale&rsquo;s evolution into a comprehensive solution, where sales development representatives (SDRs) utilize it to train GPT-3 and other language models using their top-performing outbound emails. It then customizes these emails using data from CRMs and 40+ data sources, including social media, RSS feeds, and articles. The platform optimizes sales workflows by prioritizing prospects, streamlining follow-ups, enabling multi-threaded engagement (generating leads from multiple contacts), and automating scheduling. It also integrates with tools like Gmail, Outreach.io, Apollo, LinkedIn, and Zapier to enhance workflow efficiency.
 
 
 
 
 The platform claims to improve revenue by 10x while reducing the time required to just 10%.
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 
 
 The firm's solutions are specialized for SDRs across healthcare, FinTech, technology, and business consulting, where the firm offers specialized targeting and playbooks for the respective industries by leveraging industry-specific data.
 
 
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In November 2022, the company raised USD 3.4 million in a seed funding round led by Pear Venture Capital.
 
 
 
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SellScale

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 DeckRobot is a platform compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint that leverages AI to transform raw slides into enterprise-ready presentations. DeckRobot AI transforms draft slides into professional, on-brand slides by adapting graphics from a vast library of slide examples. Users can apply an unlimited number of styles to any slide deck, including old documents, client materials, or web-sourced slides.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 DeckRobot offers enhancements for individual slides, such as adding approved icons and images, object alignment, slide resizing, and text validation through AI checks. DeckRobot's plugin acts as a time-saving tool for PowerPoint users, reducing manual work and potentially saving up to 80% of working time. The plugin emphasizes creating visually appealing presentations that adhere to company brand guidelines while maintaining content quality.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 DeckRobot collaborates with clients from Fortune 500 companies and small businesses across over 50 countries.
 
 
 
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DeckRobot

Generative AI applications are built on foundation models that are trained using advanced ML models

The technology allows the creation of digital avatars and virtual games

All companies within the space offer a product or service based on generative AI

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Some applications leverage NLP to train models to process and respond to language-based prompts

Generative AI applications are built on in-house or third-party foundation models

Companies that offer solutions to improve business processes including task automation, facilitating employee training, making resources available for employees to improve knowledge, and providing information to better respond to customer queries efficiently. Also includes solutions targeting customer analysis and strategy formulation.

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