Mayuresh Patole and Tejas Gawande are on a mission. The founders of Chronicle, which is today announcing a $7.5 million seed funding round, believe the world needs a new way to tell stories. “We are in an epidemic of bad information design,” says Patole. “The tools we currently use to create presentations just make it far too easy to make bad ones.”
The way people approach presentations – from students delivering class projects to huge enterprises publishing critical business information – is rooted in the analogue world, Chronicle argues. “The slide format was created in the 1980s with the advent of the overhead projector,” says Gawande. “Now, 40 years