Gamma

Gamma
Gamma
  • Headquarters

    San Francisco, CA
  • Founded

    2020
  • CEO / Founder

    Grant Lee
  • Employees

    11-50
  • Funding

    Series B — $90M
  • Products

    1 product listed
  • Avg. AI Score

    7.6/10
  • Website

    gamma.app/

Profile updated

Products
1
Avg AI Score
7.6/10
Founded
2020
Funding
$90M
About Gamma

Gamma is an AI-native content creation platform founded in 2020 in San Francisco by Grant Lee, Jon Noronha, and James Fox, all former Optimizely executives. The agentic design partner turns rough prompts into polished presentations, documents, and websites in seconds.

Gamma has more than 70 million users generating over a million pieces of content daily. The company reached more than $100 million in ARR and has been profitable for more than two years on a lean 50-person team.

Gamma raised a $68 million Series B in November 2025 at a $2.1 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Accel and Uncork Capital.

Specialties
AI PresentationsAI Document CreationWebsite BuilderAI DesignVisual Content
Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Valuationest.
$2.1B
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ARRest.
$100M
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Total Raisedest.
$90M
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ARR over time
$50M(2024, est.)$100M(November 2025, est.)
Products by Gamma

All products by Gamma reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

How Our Review Panel Scores Gamma

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Gamma's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 4.0 points — The Skeptic was the hardest to convince, The Power User the most positive.

The Power User
8.5
The Decision Maker
8.4
The Domain Strategist
8.1
The Domain Practitioner
7.8
The Finance Lead
7.5
The Skeptic
4.5

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Gamma competes with, and how they differ.

Canva logo
Canva7.6/10

Canva is a much larger, general-purpose design platform serving non-professionals with templates for social media, print and video, and has added its own AI tools (Magic Studio) that compete directly with Gamma's prompt-to-content approach; Gamma is narrower but purpose-built around AI-native presentations and one-prompt document generation.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed
Adobe logo
Adobe7.9/10

Adobe competes through Adobe Express and Firefly, bringing professional-grade creative tools and enterprise brand/licensing relationships that Gamma lacks; Gamma differentiates with a faster, prompt-first workflow aimed at non-designers rather than Adobe's tool-deep creative suite.

3 products reviewed on TopReviewed
Beautiful.ai logo
Beautiful.ai7.8/10

Beautiful.ai is narrowly focused on AI-assisted slide design with template-driven smart layouts and per-slide design rules, while Gamma spans a broader set of formats (presentations, documents, websites, social posts) generated from a single text prompt.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
Microsoft logo
Microsoft7.8/10

Microsoft's PowerPoint with Copilot is the incumbent office-suite competitor bundled into Microsoft 365 subscriptions that most enterprises already pay for, whereas Gamma is a standalone AI-native tool without that installed base but with a faster prompt-to-deck workflow.

9 products reviewed on TopReviewed
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Pitch

Pitch is a team-collaboration presentation tool aimed at sales and agency workflows, with its own AI slide generator (Pitch Agent) plus deck analytics and deal-room distribution features that Gamma does not offer; Gamma instead emphasizes single-prompt generation across multiple content formats, not just decks.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Gamma's history, with sources.

  1. Acquisition

    Acquired design startup Lica

    Gamma acquired Lica, an Accel-backed design startup founded in 2023 by Priyaa Kalyanaraman and Purvanshi Mehta; Lica's founders now lead Gamma's new design research lab building customized AI models for different communication styles.

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  2. Launch

    Launched Gamma Imagine, an AI image-generation tool

    Gamma launched "Gamma Imagine," an AI image-generation feature for brand-specific marketing assets and infographics, positioning itself between professional tools like Adobe/Figma and legacy software like PowerPoint to compete with Canva and Adobe.

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  3. Funding

    Series B — $68M led by Andreessen Horowitz at $2.1B valuation

    Gamma raised a $68M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, including a $20M secondary offering for early-employee liquidity, with participation from Accel and Uncork Capital; CEO Grant Lee said on X that the company had profitably hit $100M ARR with 70M users.

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  4. Funding

    Series A — $12M led by Accel

    Gamma raised a $12M Series A round led by Accel.

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  5. Launch

    Public launch out of private beta

    Gamma's product moved out of private beta into general availability in 2022.

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  6. Funding

    Seed round — $7M led by Accel

    Gamma raised a $7M seed round led by Accel, with participation from Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, former LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, and founders from Airtable, Patreon, Segment, Honey and Optimizely.

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  7. Launch

    Private beta launch

    Gamma launched in private beta, letting users build interactive "card stack" presentations with AI-assisted formatting; thousands joined the waitlist.

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  8. Founded

    Founded in San Francisco

    Grant Lee, James Fox, and Jon Noronha founded Gamma; the co-founders previously worked together at Optimizely (acquired by Episerver in 2020).

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