Gamma, a presentation startup backed by Accel and South Park Commons, has acquired Accel-backed design startup Lica to establish a design research lab, with Lica's co-founders leading the effort. Lica…
Replit CEO Amjad Masad said that by the end of the year more than half of his company will be salespeople, reversing his earlier belief that a good product sells itself. The AI era has pushed the reve…
Lovable, Gamma, and Anysphere's Cursor each crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025 with teams of 45 to 60 employees, while Bolt.new reached $40 million ARR with fewer than 40 people,…
Gamma, the AI presentation startup, reached $100M ARR with 50 employees and 600,000 paying subscribers without a sales team, but CEO Grant Lee said at SaaStr AI that this approach was a mistake becaus…
Project 0, in partnership with Gamma, launched two AI-powered vaults on Solana that use machine learning to automate yield strategies, targeting SOL/LST and stablecoin yield. The vaults leverage Proje…
OpenAI has acquired AI presentation startup NextSlide, its 17th acquisition in three years, with the deal completed earlier in 2026 and disclosed on August 8. The entire NextSlide team joins ChatGPT's…
Vectra AI launched Vectra AI Pro on August 5, 2026, an attack-signal intelligence offering for AI agents and human analysts in security operations centers, announced at Black Hat USA. The product corr…
A new comparison of 12 PowerPoint alternatives in 2026 finds that while PowerPoint remains the default, AI-powered tools like Gamma, Pitch, and Canva offer faster paths from scattered source material …
Anthropic's Head of Industries Eleanor Dorfman reported that 54% of new enterprise logos now close through self-serve after the company rebuilt its enterprise motion around AI instead of hiring more s…
Perplexity AI, NotebookLM, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Notion AI, and Gamma form the top AI productivity stack for college students, according to a guide that prioritizes research synthesis, deep reading, writ…
Nexu.io released Codex Slides, an open-source AI slide studio that runs inside the Codex coding agent, allowing users to turn prompts, repositories, or file folders into presentation-ready decks in ab…
Passionfroot, a German startup building a B2B creator marketplace, has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Insight Partners to expand to the US. The company, which has increased reve…
AI companies captured 65% of US venture dollars in 2025, but the funding is concentrated in megadeals while small seed rounds shrank 20%. Only about one in six seed-stage AI startups reaches a Series …
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 announced the Builders Stage agenda, featuring sessions on scaling startups, fundraising, hiring, and AI strategy. Speakers include Gamma CEO Grant Lee, Precedent.vc founder Le…
Meta is developing three new modes for its Meta AI web assistant: Deep Research, Presentation, and Social. The Deep Research mode will search the web and return structured summaries, the Presentation …
AI presentation tools ChatGPT, Claude, and Gamma were compared across content quality, design output, editability, workflow speed, and learning curve for building business decks. ChatGPT excels at str…
A consultant built a multi-agent system called agentigslide to automate the mechanical process of filling pre-formatted Google Slides templates, freeing the consultant to focus on narrative and strate…
Lenny Rachitsky, author of the "Lenny's Newsletter," has curated a list of 36 essential books for product builders, organized by specific development goals such as improving communication and executio…