• Chronicle is remodeling hour shows are made
• It replaces slidedecks saving hours of preparation
• The startup raised $7.5m led by Accel & Sq. Peg
• The plaform is presently in beta mode

Presentation platform Chronicle has raised $7.5 million from angel buyers working for a number of the largest names in tech.

The elevate was led by Accel and native VC Sq. Peg, together with a group of angels from Apple, Google, Meta, Slack, Stripe, Superhuman, OnDeck, and Adobe.

The Indian-Australian-US software program enterprise says it doing to shows what Notion did to docs, taking the struggle as much as Powerpoint and fellow challenger Canva to make shows sooner to compile, in addition to extra interactive and interesting.

Sydney-based CEO Mayuresh Patole met his cofounder Tejas Gawande, at Indian Institute of Know-how Bombay and have recognized one another for a decade.

Patole was impressed to launch Chronicle after being repeatedly requested about how he made his shows, then working a workshop on efficient shows that was a shock success.

The pair spent the final decade serving to hundreds of individuals make shows whereas working in product, development, and administration consulting roles.

“This began at college the place I by chance ended up instructing lecture halls full of scholars to construct shows as a result of they thought I’d developed some form of new interactive format,” Patole stated.

“In actuality, I used to be spending hours hacking Powerpoint to ship a novel, interactive and interesting format. As we speak, with the explosion of social media, distant work, and a plethora of recent design instruments, the world is prepared for a brand new option to inform tales. I’m so excited that I can now deliver that energy to create visually gorgeous tales to anybody in seconds or minutes, not hours.”

Chronicle just isn’t a sooner device to make slides, however a rethinking of shows for customers to create with ‘pre-designed blocks’.

These blocks are interactive and designed to cut back the time required to create a narrative with most influence. Layouts are created very similar to arranging widgets on an iPhone

Right here’s a mindblowing stat: workers spend, on common, greater than a month yearly writing and finessing shows. Meaning practically 10% of their yr is spent stuffing round attempting to nail their quarter-hour of fame in firm conferences.

Social media hijacked consideration

Gawande stated the issue just isn’t which you could’t create nice shows with present instruments, however somewhat that it’s that the instruments don’t assist in the method.

“Not solely do present instruments and codecs make it very tough to ship nice shows, they make it fairly simple to make unhealthy ones,” he stated.

Chronicle in beta mode

“Social media has utterly hijacked how individuals devour complicated info. Consideration spans have diminished by 33% since 2000 and have given rise to shorter codecs throughout virtually the whole lot we devour.”

The problem, Gawande stated, is that most audiences cease being attentive to the presentation on the 10-minute mark.

“As youthful generations have entered the office this sense of ‘demise by Powerpoint’ has solely grown extra acute,” he stated

“Merely making instruments that result in sooner creation of poorly designed slides with chartjunk and unhealthy info design solely additional aggravates this problem.”

Patole stated Chronicle’s early adopters have been capable of create a number of the finest decks in simply 8 minutes as a substitute of 8 hours.

“Finally, we see Chronicle being the easiest way to anchor any assembly or dialogue, in-person, distant, or asynchronous,” he stated.

“It’s a large alternative to influence thousands and thousands of people that aren’t proud of how tales are advised in the present day and we’re extremely enthusiastic about it.”

‘Obsessed’ founder

How the duo used Chronicle to construct their pitch deck was sufficient to impress Accel’s Shekhar Kirani to speculate.

“Chronicle is reimagining storytelling. The group is obsessive about fixing the issue and making the expertise of crafting impactful tales not simply bearable however joyful,” he stated.

“With its opinionated design and pleasant expertise, Chronicle has already began rising as the selection of storytelling device with trendy ventures.”

Sq. Peg’s Paul Bassat stated it’s uncommon to discover a founder with a particular connection to the issue they’re fixing.

“Mayuresh is totally obsessed and uniquely expert to craft a brand new storytelling medium,” he stated.

“When he confirmed us what he means by ‘a brand new format’ it was instantly clear that the chance is big and they’re fascinated about this very in a different way.”

Chronicle has a totally distant group of 15, working throughout the US, India, and Australia.

They’re presently in closed beta, quickly iterating with their early adopters on the primary model of their product that focuses on serving to founders make pitch decks – a use case that could be very near the founders.

They are going to quickly be increasing to different inner and exterior storytelling use instances.