Chronicle 2.0

Mayuresh Patole and Tejas Gawande looked at PowerPoint and said "this needs to die" and then raised $7.5 million from Accel and Square Peg to make it happen. Chronicle is what happens when you apply the Cursor philosophy to presentations—it's an AI-native presentation tool that actually understands design instead of just vomiting bullet points onto a slide. They had 100,000 people on their waitlist before they even launched 2.0. One hundred thousand. The team is based between Sydney and San Francisco, which means they're literally working around the clock because time zones are their productivity hack. Chronicle 2.0 just dropped and it's being called the Cursor for presentations, which if you know anything about how developers feel about Cursor, you know that's basically the highest compliment in tech right now. The AI doesn't just generate slides—it understands your content, designs them beautifully, and makes you look like you hired a design agency. In a world where everyone from founders to consultants to teachers is making presentations every single day, Chronicle is about to make PowerPoint feel like a fax machine. The waitlist alone tells you everything you need to know about demand.