Prezi
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Type of site
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Presentation Collaboration |
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| Available in | English, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, German, Italian, French, Hungarian |
| Founder(s) |
Adam Somlai-Fischer Peter Halacsy Peter Arvai |
| Website | www |
| Launched | April 5, 2009 |
| Current status | Active |
Prezi is a visual storytelling software alternative to traditional slide-based presentation formats. Prezi presentations feature a map-like, schematic overview that lets users pan between topics at will, zoom in on desired details, and pull back to reveal context.
This freedom of movement enables “conversational presenting,” a new presentation style in which presentations follow the flow of dialogue, instead of vice-versa.
Founded in 2009, and with offices in San Francisco, Budapest, and Mexico City, Prezi now fosters a community of over 75 million users with more than 260 million prezis around the world.
The company launched Prezi Business in 2016, with a suite of creation, collaboration, and analytics tools for teams. Prezi Business is an HTML5 application that runs on JavaScript.
The word Prezi is the short form of “presentation” in Hungarian.
Prezi was founded in 2008 in Budapest, Hungary by Adam Somlai-Fischer, Peter Halacsy, and Peter Arvai.
The earliest zooming presentation prototype had been previously developed by Somlai-Fischer to showcase his media-art pieces. Halacsy, an engineer, saw one of these presentations and proposed to improve the software. They were joined by entrepreneur and future CEO Arvai with the goal of making Prezi a globally recognized SaaS company.
The company established incorporation on May 20, 2009 and received its first major investment from TED two months later. A San Francisco office was opened that December.
Early 2011 saw the launch of Prezi’s first iPad application, followed by $14M in Series B funding led by Accel Partners. A Prezi iPhone app was launched in late 2012.
In March of 2014, Prezi pledged $100M in free licenses to Title 1 schools as part of the Obama administration’s ConnectED program. November of that year saw the announcement of $57M in new funding from Spectrum Equity and Accel Partners.
Prezi for Android was launched in 2015, and in June of 2016, the company launched Prezi Business. As of June 2, 2016, Prezi reports 75 million registered users and 1 billion ‘prezi’ presentation views worldwide.
The Prezi online and offline ZUI editors employ a common tool palette, allowing users to pan and zoom, and to size, rotate, or edit an object. The user places objects on a canvas and navigates between videos, images, texts and other presentation media. Frames allow grouping of presentation media together as a single presentation object. Paths are navigational sequences that connect presentation objects for the purposes of structuring a linear presentation.
Prezi Desktop allows Prezi Pro or Edu Pro subscribers to work off-line and create and save their presentations on their own Windows or Mac systems. Prezi Desktop Editor allows users to work on the presentation off-line in a .pez file format. Users can have files up to 500 MB in size when signing up with a school-affiliated e-mail address. This storage capability doesn't affect when users use an appropriate third-party conversion software with FLV or SWF format.
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