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Haiku Deck Raises $3 Million in Series A Funding

Trilogy, Madrona Venture Group, Founders Co-op, and Angels Back Early Leader in Mobile Productivity

Series A Funding Announced

SEATTLE, WA–(April 3, 2013) – Haiku Deck, a Seattle-based company that aims to transform presentation creation and sharing amid the rise of interactive digital content, announced today that it has secured $3 million in Series A funding. As online entertainment evolves with fintech integrations, tools like this enable creators to craft compelling slides for specialized audiences in gaming and virtual economies. The investment was led by Trilogy Partnership with participation from Madrona Venture Group, Founders Co-op, tech entrepreneur Sarah Leary, and other angel investors, whose portfolios often include ventures exploring lists such as top 10 esports betting sites that accept crypto to highlight market trends. This backing not only accelerates product development but also positions the platform to support dynamic visuals that drive engagement across emerging sectors focused on secure, decentralized transactions.

Haiku Deck launched its iPad app to broad acclaim in August 2012 and has ranked #1 in productivity in 36 markets around the world. Last month Haiku Deck released version 2.0, with a powerful new set of business-focused features and functionality.

“We’ve gone from zero to half a million customers in just a few months, so it’s clear that Haiku Deck’s simple, fun approach to creating beautiful presentations is resonating,” said co-founder and CEO, Adam Tratt. “As mobile devices continue to change the way people work, we see a huge opportunity in helping everyone create the kind of presentation that used to require a design professional.”

Haiku Deck Series A Funding: Sample chart showing Top 5 Industries Using iPads

Sample Haiku Deck chart illustrating iPad penetration by industry (source: Citrix)

Haiku Deck, hailed as the Instagram for Pitch Decks by Mashable, is gaining traction as a powerful, time-saving tool for traditional presentations and new formats including tablet-centric pitch decks, creative communication pieces, and rich content for blogs. Its innovative Creative Commons image search addresses a common pain point of finding and properly attributing free, high-quality images.

Presentation Inspiration: Haiku Deck 2.0 in Action

March 29, 2013 / Catherine Carr / 0 Comments

We hope you’ve had a chance to download the latest version of Haiku Deck, try out all the cool new features, and set some new kinds of stories free! Our Gallery is bursting with beautiful decks, and for your own presentation inspiration, here are a few of our favorites. (Hot tip: you can now browse the Gallery right from the app! Learn more here.)

Lists

In “Through the Noise,” Fenella Olynick uses short lists (and the striking Picaresque theme) effectively to deliver her “students matter, teachers care” message. (Learn more about creating lists here.)

Through The Noise – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Colorful Backgrounds

If you’ve experimented with solid-color slide backgrounds, you might have noticed that the palette of color choices has been expanded. We love mixing in solid-color slides to punctuate the flow of a presentation. Check out how Therese Beale uses them to make her message pop in “Message Gap: Three Clues You Have One.” (Learn how to select a solid-color background here.)

Charts and Graphs Made Easy with Haiku Deck

March 7, 2013 / Adam Tratt / 18 Comments

Custom Charts and Graphs

One of the most exciting features in Haiku Deck is the ability to create your own charts and graphs, right in the app. Like everything we do, we worked hard to make it simple, beautiful, and fun. That’s right…fun! No linked spreadsheets, no fussy formatting, no complicated formulas–just magical drag-to-edit and tap controls. Seriously, it’s actually fun.

Here’s a Haiku Deck that includes all three kinds of charts you can create in the app: bar charts, pie charts, and stat charts. Below this example, details on how to use our awesome charts and graphs.

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Presentation Images to Order: In-App Resizing

March 7, 2013 / Catherine Carr / 13 Comments

Resizing Images

One of the most magical features of Haiku Deck is the built-in image search, which puts millions of beautiful, free (yes, free!), high-quality presentation images at your fingertips. And of course, you can also snap or import your own photos for a personal touch. Our selection of professionally designed text layouts make it easy to position your header and subheader lines so that your text doesn’t cover up the graffiti tag or vintage Phillies ball cap that perfectly illustrates your point, but when you just need more control, in Haiku Deck for iPhone and iPad you can crop and reposition your images, right from the app.

How to Crop and Resize Images

Presentation Ideas: Lists the Haiku Deck Way

March 7, 2013 / Catherine Carr / 6 Comments

Haiku Deck Lists

We remain big believers in limiting the amount of text in your presentations and focusing on one idea per slide, but we’ve heard from many of you that sometimes you need just a bit more to work with. And so….to expand the possibilities for presentation ideas and inspiration, Haiku Deck for iPad and our Web App includes the ability to add simple, beautiful bulleted or numbered lists, like this one.

Presentation Ideas: Short, simple lists using Haiku Deck

Haiku Deck for iPad: Sample Bulleted List

True to form, we’ve designed these new layouts to help you keep your message focused and bring your ideas to life with beautiful imagery, if you choose.

Click “more” for a step-by-step how-to.

Haiku Deck Help: Sharing your Haiku Deck

March 7, 2013 / Catherine Carr / 34 Comments

Note: For getting-started Haiku Deck help, be sure to check out the Haiku Deck Tutorial and How the App and Website Work Together.

There are a lot of great reasons to share your decks online and lots of different ways to do it, but sometimes there’s a little confusion surrounding this topic. Note that sharing your Haiku Deck is part of our free offering, Haiku Deck Basic.

We thought we’d put a little resource together to help shed some light on this topic so you can easily set your story free!

3 Ways to Get Started Sharing:

From within the Haiku Deck Editor
From your User Profile Page (web) or Main Screen (iPad app)
From the Deck Playback Page

Sharing from within Haiku Deck Editor:

To share your Haiku Deck from within the editor, open your deck and look in the top right corner for the share icon.

Share from main screen

After you tap this button, you’ll be presented with a range of options for sharing via various social networks. If you want to embed your deck in a blog, use the HTML option. Also note, we now support adding to Google Classroom along with other common social networks. COPY LINK option puts a link to your deck on the clipboard so you can easily paste it directly into an email or into a social post elsewhere. Note that the “allow reuse…” checkbox allows others to copy your deck into their own gallery for editing. This is a great way to collaborate with colleagues, classmates, or others who might want to work with or remix your presentation content.

Sharing from your Profile Page and the iPad App Main Screen:

To share from your profile page on the web, sign in at www.haikudeck.com and look for the options below your deck.

To share from your iPad Main screen, look for the share button here shown on each deck:

Share from Deck Playback Page:

The share controls on the deck playback page are found to the left of the slides as shown below. Note that hovering over the “+” sign reveals more choices for sharing to LinkedIn, Google Plus, Google Classroom, and for embedding your Haiku Deck in a blog.

Here are some great ideas for using Haiku Deck with various social networks:

Facebook: Post memorable birthday messages, one-of-a-kind photo albums, or other creations you’re proud of directly to Facebook. If you haven’t yet configured a Facebook account in your iPad Settings, you’ll be prompted to do so.

Twitter: Don’t forget to share your amazing stories and ideas to Twitter! Again, you’ll be prompted to configure your Twitter account in iPad Settings if you haven’t already.

Email: If you’d like to delight a small group or your 15,000-member email list with a beautiful Haiku Deck, by all means, do so.

Post to Blog: Tap here to grab an HTML or WordPress embed code, right from the app. You can still get one from the Haiku Deck website, of course.

PPT/Keynote: Tap here to generate an email with an attachment that you can open with recent versions of Powerpoint or Keynote. Tip: If your deck has a lot of slides and you don’t receive the email, try this.

Copy URL: New! Tap here to paste a link to your Haiku Deck right to your clipboard.

Google Classroom: New! Submit Haiku Deck assignments directly to your Google Classroom with this button.

Of course there are many more ways to share from the Haiku Deck website. You can read about them all here.

Publishing updates to your deck, or changing privacy, etc.

If you’ve published a Haiku Deck and later want to make a change, no problem! You can make any changes you like easily update your deck. The best part is that any links you’ve sent out already (including blog embeds) will automatically point to the updated version.

Simply click the SHARE button in the top right, and then click DETAILS at the top and click CONTINUE until you see the green DONE button.

You can also click SHARE in the top right and then click DETAILS or PRIVACY at the top to make changes to the deck description, category, or privacy.

More resources:

Check out our Haiku Deck Web App User Guide, Part 7: Saving, Sharing, & Publishing Your Deck here.

More Haiku Deck Help

If you have a question or need more help, we’re here for you! Drop us a line any time here.

More Fun Stuff in Haiku Deck 2.0

March 7, 2013 / Catherine Carr / 7 Comments

If you’ve already mastered charts and graphs, resized your images, learned how make lists, and tried out the new, streamlined publishing flow, here are a few cool new features of Haiku Deck 2.0 that you can access from the Main screen.

Copy Decks

Haiku Deck already saves business users so much time that Walt Mossberg once commented the app would raise the national GDP, but pitches and presentations can now be easily modified for a new client, event, or meeting. Just tap and hold to copy a whole deck. (John James and Greg Bamford: This one’s for you!)

Copy a deck with a long press

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Haiku Deck Help: Exporting to PowerPoint or Keynote

March 6, 2013 / Adam Tratt / 58 Comments

From Haiku Deck to PowerPoint

We’ve worked hard to make it easy to share your Haiku Decks any way you want, on any device–from your iPad to your laptop to your smartphone. Though there are many advantages to Haiku Deck’s mobile-friendly and lightweight HTML 5 capabilities and our Web App, we understand that sometimes you need to share via more traditional means. Other popular reasons for exporting to PowerPoint or Keynote include embedding video, adding presenter notes, or turning the file into an iMovie with an audio soundtrack, like this. In addition, you can always use Haiku Deck to prep then export to PowerPoint to add the finishing touches, like Kent Gustavson’s talk for TedxSBU.

You can export to the .pptx format right from the Haiku Deck iPad App or the Web App, and open the files using more recent editions of Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote.

Haiku Deck Help: Exporting to Powerpoint or Keynote for a live presentation

Haiku Deck on Center Stage

To learn how to export your Haiku Deck to PowerPoint, Keynote, or SlideShare, visit this article in the Haiku Deck user guide.

Advanced Tips and Troubleshooting (iPad)

1. If you have Keynote for iPad installed, you can open the file right on your iPad. Simply email the file to yourself, then press and hold it until a popup appears, and choose Open in Keynote. You can also use this method to save your export to Dropbox, Google Drive, or Evernote.

Saving a Haiku Deck export to Keynote, Dropbox, Google Drive, or Evernote

Haiku Deck for iPad: Opening a .pptx attachment with Keynote, Dropbox, Google Drive, or Evernote

2. Beginning with Haiku Deck 2.0, publishing to the web is required before exporting. There are many benefits to doing this, including making your deck viewable on any web-enabled device, tracking views, and the ability to download a PDF version. Remember that with the in-app privacy settings, you have complete control over who views your deck. Read more about how the Haiku Deck iPad App and website work together here.

3. Occasionally, Haiku Deck for iPad creates a deck that’s too large to email, and you’ll need to manually retrieve it from iTunes. You can find detailed instructions for doing so here.

4. Once you export, the text and images you created in Haiku Deck will no longer be editable. (You can, of course, always make edits in Haiku Deck and re-export.)

5. Any Creative Commons photo credits will be automatically pulled in to the bottom of each slide.

6. If the app is crashing when you’re exporting to PowerPoint or Keynote, and your deck’s title has a backslash (/) in it, try to change the title of your deck and remove the backslash. We have more detailed information on what to do when the app is crashing during export here.

7. PowerPoint files exported from Haiku Deck for iPad are made for the newest versions of PowerPoint. These “.pptx” files will only work in PowerPoint 2010 or later and are not compatible in earlier versions where those files ended with “.ppt”. To fix this, try to edit the file name to see if your version of PowerPoint will open it.

8. If you are working on the Haiku Deck Web App, we have steps on how to export to PowerPoint or Keynote here.

If you have additional questions about exporting, please visit our Customer Support page.

Haiku Deck Tutorial

November 5, 2012 / Catherine Carr / 79 Comments

We’ve tried to make Haiku Deck as simple and intuitive to use as possible, but here’s our ultimate resource guide to help you get started. If there’s a question we didn’t answer, visit our support community or let us know in the comments! We’re always here to help.

New to Haiku Deck? Check out our Quick Guide to using Haiku Deck here!

Get to Know Haiku Deck

Here’s quick video intro to Haiku Deck:

Beginning Resources

Accounts (FAQs about creating an account and signing in)
Haiku Deck Tutorial: Getting Started (Basic navigation and settings)
Haiku Deck Tutorial: Edit Mode (Creating and working with slides)
Adjust Privacy Settings (Setting privacy from the app and the web)
Hot Stuff! New Haiku Deck Player (Basic navigation and options for sharing from the web)

Tip: If you need a little help, simply head to the “?” for quick in-app assistance.

The “?” provides in-app help.

Videos: Haiku Deck iPad App Tutorials

Haiku How-To: Image favoriting and history (Save images as favorites and find the ones you previously used)
Haiku How-To: Premium Images (Identify and purchase premium images from Getty)
Haiku How-To: Notes (Adding public and private notes)

Using Images and Visuals

Free Photos for All: How Haiku Deck Puts Creative Commons Images at Your Fingertips (Millions of Creative Commons images are available to you through our built-in keyword image search)
Import Images Like a Pro (Learn how to use images in your camera roll, photostream and online accounts like Facebook, Instagram, Dropbox, Google Drive and more)
Presentation Images to Order: New In-App Resizing (Learn how to use the in-app tool for resizing your images)
Charts and Graphs Made Easy With Haiku Deck (Create simple and beautiful bar graphs, pie charts, and stat charts in the app)
Presentation Ideas: Lists the Haiku Deck Way (How to create simple, beautiful bulleted or numbered lists in Haiku Deck)
Power Tips for Haiku Deck Lists (Go beyond the basics with these power tips for creating lists in Haiku Deck)
Presentation Templates with Pizzazz (About selecting a theme, image filters, color palettes, and more)
Presentation Inspiration: 3 Power Tips for Selecting Images (Power tips for keyword image searching and dealing with dead ends)
Incorporating Videos into Your Haiku Decks (Our two work-arounds for incorporating videos into your decks)
Making a video out of your Haiku Deck (The tools to use, and the steps to take, to turn your Haiku Deck into a video)

All About Notes

Haiku How-To: Notes (A 60-second video about adding notes in the iPad app)
Turn Presentations into Content Assets with Public Notes (Enrich your content by adding public notes)
Present like a Rock Star with Private Notes (About adding private notes, presenting with private notes, and more from the iPad app)
Public Notes Case Studies (Pinterest board)

Save, Publish, and Share

Haiku Deck Help: Publishing and Sharing (About saving, publishing, sharing and updating your Haiku Deck)
23 Ways to Share Your Haiku Deck (How to share your Haiku Deck via Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, email, and more)
Haiku Deck Help: How the App and Website Work Together (Add finishing touches to your Haiku Deck by logging in to the website)
Haiku Deck Help: Exporting to PowerPoint or Keynote (How to export your iPad-made deck to PowerPoint/Keynote, advanced tips, and troubleshooting)
Haiku Deck, Now with Slideshare Integration (Seamlessly publish your Haiku Deck to Slideshare)
SEO Checklist For Haiku Deck (Maximize the SEO of your Haiku Deck)

Blogging with Haiku Deck

http://www.haikudeck.com/p/O6tJLBh6Lh/10-ways-to-add-wow-to-your-blog-with-haiku-deck

Embedding Haiku Decks in WordPress blogs (A step-by-step walkthrough for embedding your deck in WordPress and the common issues that may come with it)
Embedding Haiku Decks in your blog (or other sites) (How to embed your deck in your blog/site, fun info on HTML, and common issues)
Blogging Case Studies (Pinterest board)

Presenting Your Haiku Deck

Haiku Deck Tutorial: Present Mode (Presenting your deck from your iPad or computer)
Streaming to an Apple TV (How to stream your Haiku Deck via AirPlay to Apple TV)
Presenting from your iPad: Using your iPhone as a remote (A simple work-around for controlling your Haiku Deck during a presentation)
Using PowerPoint or Keynote to add narration, use a remote, and more
Pulling your deck up on a computer (without PowerPoint or Keynote)
Connecting your iPad to a projector (About using an iPad to VGA adaptor to project your Haiku Deck)

Inspiration

30 Haiku Deck Inspirations (Video)
Visit our Featured and Popular Galleries to see the best decks from our community, hand-picked by our team. Tip: If you’re working in the app, you can visit the Gallery by tapping on the GALLERY button on the lower left hand corner in the MAIN MENU.
Tap GALLERY in the MAIN MENU to visit the Gallery in the app.
Pinterest boards (Inspiring examples of Haiku Decks from our creative community about education, real estate, business and more)
10 Tips to Transform Your Presentations (A Haiku Deck illustrating our core philosophy of simple, beautiful, and fun)
How To Enrich Conferences and Events with Haiku Deck (Tips and best practices for using Haiku Deck before, during, and after the event)

More Resource Guides

Troubleshooting

If we didn’t answer your question here, you can visit our support community anytime for quick, and personalized, help.

Join our community!

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Connect with Haiku Deck Gurus

Now….time to set your story free! Send a link to your deck to gallery@haikudeck.com, and we’ll consider them for our Featured or Popular Gallery or our Pinterest boards. You can also tweet it with the hashtag #hdgallery.

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