Napkin AI turns plain text into editable visuals - diagrams, flowcharts, infographics, mind maps - in about five seconds. Built by two ex-Google engineers who previously co-founded the children's learning platform Osmo, Napkin uses an orchestrator LLM and a 'design agency' of specialized sub-agents to do the work most knowledge workers used to outsource to a designer or a PowerPoint smart-art menu.
Prezi is a cloud-based visual communication company best known for inventing the zooming, non-linear presentation - an open-canvas alternative to slide-by-slide decks. Founded in Budapest in 2009 and now dual-headquartered in San Francisco and Budapest, Prezi has grown into a full suite spanning Prezi Present, Prezi Video (presenter-on-screen overlays), Prezi Design/Infograms, and Prezi AI. More than 160 million people have used it to create roughly 400 million presentations.
Pramod Sharma is the Founder and CEO of Napkin AI, a generative-AI platform that converts plain text into editable business visuals - diagrams, flowcharts, infographics, and charts - in seconds. A farmer's son from Rajasthan who cracked IIT Delhi on self-study, he went on to earn a Master's from Stanford, architect Google Books' scanning machines, and then co-found Osmo, the award-winning educational-gaming company sold to Byju's for $120 million in 2019. In 2021 he and co-founder Jerome Scholler turned their frustration with corporate slide decks into Napkin AI, which emerged from stealth in August 2024 with $10 million in seed funding from Accel and CRV.