Zapdeck and i-pointing are convinced that artificial intelligence will play a major role in the creation of presentations in the future. This will completely change the way presentations are created. There are already a number of AI tools available today that allow any user to create an initial draft quickly and easily. However, these products are mainly suitable for private users and simple areas of application, such as team meetings or marketing documents. They often do not meet the high demands of professional users. These include management consultancies, strategy departments, corporate IR departments, sales departments and auditors.
The Berlin-based start-up Zapdeck has set out to close this gap and meet the foreseeably huge demand for a SaaS product for AI-powered presentations in the corporate sector. The company was launched by a former BCG consultant after observing for himself that consultants often invest 15 hours or more per week in creating presentations.
i-pointing, headquartered in Munich, is today the leading agency in the German-speaking world for the creation of professional PowerPoint presentations in the corporate environment. With more than twenty years of experience in this market, i-pointing has successfully built up a customer base of several thousand corporate clients from all sectors.
To accelerate the implementation of this vision, i-pointing is investing a significant amount in Zapdeck in the current pre-seed round. The two companies have also entered into a strategic cooperation. i-pointing will contribute its many years of experience in the process of creating professional presentations and the associated customer requirements. In addition, i-pointing will develop a training concept to support its own – and other – customers in using Zapdeck's future products optimally and in addition to i-pointing's services.
Markus Pfaff, Managing Director & CEO of i-pointing: "We have been planning such a collaboration for some time, but have only now been able to find a company in Zapdeck whose approach and vision perfectly match the requirements we see in the professional sector. Together, we will show that AI-powered presentations will bring great benefits to customers in terms of speed and cost efficiency in the future."
Frederik Görtelmeyer, CEO & Co-founder of Zapdeck: "With Zapdeck, we enable professional users to create presentations in a fraction of the time. Our AI is the first on the market that does not generate the content of a presentation, but the design of the slides. Such a sophisticated AI product can only work if it is perfectly adapted to the way users work. The collaboration with i-pointing enables us to understand the specific needs of our target group precisely and incorporate them into the product. At the same time, the partnership gives us a decisive advantage over potential competitors when entering the market."
Marion Koppitz, Founder & Owner of i-pointing: "The combination of Zapdeck's promising AI-powered presentation solution with the leading PowerPoint agency will offer corporate customers completely new opportunities to create first-class presentations faster and more efficiently than ever before. To make this possible, we have chosen to work with Frederik and his team and have also become a minority shareholder in Zapdeck."
