Gamma
Gamma builds AI tools for imagination, helping users transform and share thoughts as beautiful presentations, websites, and social posts. They are reimagining how great ideas get into the universe by building software that believes in the user and their creations.
Founding Story
Gamma was founded in fall 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Grant Lee, while living in London during peak pandemic, conceived the idea after recognizing the limitations of traditional presentation tools exposed by the shift to remote work. Having spent extensive time creating slide decks throughout his career in investment banking, consulting, finance, and operations, he reached out to former Optimizely colleagues James Fox and Jon Noronha, who were based in San Francisco. The three founders physically started the company in a converted two-bedroom apartment in Potrero Hill, San Francisco during the shelter-in-place period. They initially spent six months dual-tracking two products: Gamma (presentations) and The Lobby (a virtual office for remote workers), eventually writing off The Lobby to focus solely on Gamma.
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Leadership
Founders
Grant Lee
Grant Lee has a background in mechanical engineering from Stanford. He spent a decade in finance and consulting before joining Optimizely in 2013, where he spent five years in finance and operations roles, rising to interim CFO and later COO. He also worked at ClearBrain before co-founding Gamma in 2020.
Jon Noronha
Jon Noronha was VP of Product at Optimizely and previously a product manager for Bing's Image Search at Microsoft. He is described as a Bay Area native with great taste in building and tinkering.
James Fox
James Fox served as CTO at Gamma with a background in customer success and engineering at Optimizely. He is described as a Warriors fan and tech nerd.
Executive Team
Grant Lee
Co-Founder and CEO
Former interim CFO and COO at Optimizely, with a decade of experience in finance and consulting. Holds a mechanical engineering degree from Stanford.
Jon Noronha
Co-Founder and Head of Product
Former VP of Product at Optimizely and product manager for Bing's Image Search at Microsoft. Bay Area native focused on product innovation.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription-based SaaS model with freemium tier. Revenue generated through monthly and annual subscription plans across Free, Plus, Pro, Ultra, Team, and Business tiers. Also offers API access for automation and integration use cases.
Pricing Tiers
For simple projects and getting to know Gamma. 400 credits at signup (non-refilling), create up to 10 cards per prompt, simple presentations, docs, websites, social media posts, and images, import from PDF & PPTX, export to PDF, PPTX, PNG & Google Slides.
For extra AI power and removing Gamma branding. 1,000 monthly credits, create up to 20 cards per prompt, remove Gamma branding, advanced AI image models. Monthly billing also available.
For premium AI models, API, and more customization. 4,000 monthly credits, create up to 60 cards per prompt, premium AI image models, custom branding & fonts, detailed analytics & advanced sharing, publish up to 10 custom domains, API access, workspace templates.
For 20x more AI usage and access to most advanced models. 20,000 monthly credits, create up to 75 cards per prompt, access to most advanced AI models (text, image, video), publish up to 100 custom domains, early access to new features including Studio Mode.
6,000 credits per seat/month, team collaboration features, centralized billing and seat management.
10,000 credits per seat/month, includes SOC 2 Type II compliance, advanced security features, priority support.
Target Markets
- Consultants and consulting firms
- Marketing teams and agencies
- Sales teams and business development
- Educators and educational institutions
- Enterprise businesses and Fortune 500 companies
- Small and medium-sized businesses
- Business presentations and pitch decks
- Consulting deliverables and client proposals
- Marketing materials and campaigns
- Sales presentations and proposals
- Educational content and teaching materials
- Case studies and success stories
- 70 million total users globally
- Over 600,000 paying customers
- 1 million creations per day
- 250 million total presentations created
History & Milestones
Reached $50 million ARR and 50 million users
Launched Gamma 3.0 with AI design partner (Gamma Agent)
Launched Gamma API for integrations with Zapier, Make, and other platforms
Raised $68 million Series B at $2.1 billion valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz, surpassed $100 million ARR, reached 70 million users
Achieved profitability
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