When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. PowerPoint has over one billion installs and 500 million users alone, thanks to Microsoft's longtime bundling of Office with certain Windows editions. But this hasn't stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo. Also slotting somewhere in the product category is Gamma, a presentation designer platform built around a card-like interface. Convinced he had something novel to contribute, Rajat Mishra in 2021 cofounded Prezent.ai, a presentation creation tool that today closed a $20 million Series A round led by Greycroft at a valuation "north of" $100 million.

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Smart technology is as much a threat to strategy consulting as it is proving to be to Wall Street. This article is part of an MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management. We all understand that AI is a disruptive force in the market, but it still takes some convincing for many of us to accept just how deeply AI will affect even highly skilled knowledge-based industries. Management consulting offers a prime example. A $250 billion industry filled with some of the smartest people on the planet, consulting tends to view itself as an elite, untouchable echelon of the business world. But it is vulnerable to the same market forces that are disrupting services everywhere.

AI will augment people's capabilities but won't take all jobs. However, there will be socioeconomic upheaval, warns PwC's authority on AI, Anand Rao. Anand Rao is PwC global leader for artificial intelligence (AI) and is the consulting giant's innovation lead for the US analytics practice. Rao has 24 years of industry and consulting experience, helping senior executives to structure, solve and manage critical issues facing their organisations. He has worked extensively on business, technology and analytics issues across a wide range of industry sectors including financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, aerospace and defence, across US, Europe, Asia and Australia.