Napkin AI Cleans Up With $10 Million Seed Round

<p><strong>LOS ALTOS<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; With &dollar;10 million in seed funding from Accel and CRV&comma; <a class&equals;"ww&lowbar;lnktrkr" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;napkin&period;ai&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Napkin&period;ai<&sol;a> is pioneering Visual AI that brings impact and fun into business storytelling&period; Designed for the millions of professionals&comma; writers&comma; educators&comma; and content creators who are in the business of selling ideas&comma; <a class&equals;"ww&lowbar;lnktrkr" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;napkin&period;ai&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Napkin&period;ai<&sol;a> helps you unlock the visual potential in your text content&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With the iPhone&comma; Apple made it dead simple for anyone to take photos&period; We aim to do the same thing with graphics&comma;” says Pramod Sharma&comma; co-founder at <a class&equals;"ww&lowbar;lnktrkr" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;napkin&period;ai&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Napkin&period;ai<&sol;a>&period; &&num;8220&semi;Visuals are powerful&comma; and we’ve designed <a class&equals;"ww&lowbar;lnktrkr" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;napkin&period;ai&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Napkin&period;ai<&sol;a> so anyone can easily communicate their ideas through imagery&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Got an Idea&quest; Write it on a Napkin&comma; Or This AI Will Do it For You<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Napkin&period;ai makes design more accessible and enables you to explain your ideas without spending hours creating the right visual and building it from scratch&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Here’s how it works&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li><strong>Bring Your Text<&sol;strong>&colon; Paste your existing text content or generate text from an AI prompt&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Generate Visuals<&sol;strong>&colon; Click the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;spark icon” on any part of the text&comma; and <a class&equals;"ww&lowbar;lnktrkr" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;napkin&period;ai&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Napkin&period;ai<&sol;a> will transform your content into recommended visuals&period; Within a few seconds&comma; you’ll have a variety of visuals to choose from&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Customize<&sol;strong>&colon; With <a class&equals;"ww&lowbar;lnktrkr" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;napkin&period;ai&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Napkin&period;ai<&sol;a>’s built-in editing tool&comma; you can adjust font&comma; color&comma; shape&comma; design&comma; and more to meet your style or brand guidelines&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Embed into Your Workflows<&sol;strong>&colon; As simple as copying and pasting&comma; you can simply take <a class&equals;"ww&lowbar;lnktrkr" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;napkin&period;ai&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Napkin&period;ai<&sol;a>’s visuals into any place you like&colon; Google Slides&sol;Docs&comma; Microsoft Word&sol;PowerPoint&comma; Substack&comma; Medium&comma; Slack&comma; Notion&comma; Canva&comma; LinkedIn&comma; X&comma; Instagram and more&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li><strong>Use it in a Diversity of Use Cases&colon;<&sol;strong> Create high-quality visuals suitable for presentations&comma; blogs&comma; pitch decks&comma; social content&comma; newsletters&comma; data and research reports&comma; customer communications&comma; and more&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As someone without design skills&comma; <a class&equals;"ww&lowbar;lnktrkr" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;napkin&period;ai&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Napkin&period;ai<&sol;a> is super easy and convenient&period; Whether I need a quick diagram for a blog post or a chart for a presentation&comma; <a class&equals;"ww&lowbar;lnktrkr" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;napkin&period;ai&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Napkin&period;ai<&sol;a> generates exactly what I’m looking for within seconds&comma;” said<strong> Jason Miller&comma; COO of SproutsAI&period;<&sol;strong> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Before <a class&equals;"ww&lowbar;lnktrkr" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;napkin&period;ai&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Napkin&period;ai<&sol;a>&comma; we were constrained regarding what graphics we could access&period; Now&comma; with <a class&equals;"ww&lowbar;lnktrkr" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;napkin&period;ai&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Napkin&period;ai<&sol;a>&comma; we have a designer at our fingertips&comma; offering unlimited access to enhance our business storytelling with visuals while achieving significant cost and time savings&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Instant Visuals to Amplify Your Storytelling<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Napkin&period;ai’s vast design catalog already includes 30&plus; visual design categories&comma; such as mind maps&comma; flow charts&comma; Venn diagrams&comma; bar charts&comma; and more&period; <a class&equals;"ww&lowbar;lnktrkr" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;napkin&period;ai&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Napkin&period;ai<&sol;a>’s team of NLP&comma; AI&comma; and computer vision developers&comma; who hail from Amazon&comma; Microsoft’s Research Lab&comma; GitHub&comma; Google&comma; and Osmo&comma; is hard at work supporting more powerful customizations and unique categories&comma; which they will continue to launch in the coming weeks and months&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Jerome and Pramod have an uncanny ability to take something incredibly challenging from a technical perspective and make it easy for users&period; As a partner to their first company&comma; Osmo&comma; we watched them bring their vision for a new play movement to life with Reflective AI&period; We are excited to support this new chapter as <a class&equals;"ww&lowbar;lnktrkr" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;napkin&period;ai&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Napkin&period;ai<&sol;a> brings visual AI to business storytelling&comma;” said <strong>Rich Wong&comma; Partner at Accel&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Pramod and Jerome are creative visionaries reimagining productivity software in the AI era&period; <a class&equals;"ww&lowbar;lnktrkr" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;napkin&period;ai&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Napkin&period;ai<&sol;a>’s AI-first approach is a breakthrough in visual communication that we are excited to share with the world&comma;” says <strong>Max Gazor&comma; General Partner at CRV&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jerome Scholler and Pramod Sharma founded <a class&equals;"ww&lowbar;lnktrkr" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;napkin&period;ai&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">Napkin&period;ai<&sol;a> after selling their previous company&comma; Osmo&comma; whose Reflective AI is used by millions of kids and classrooms and is integrated into products with Disney and Mattel’s Hot Wheels&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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