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Smartcar raised $2,000,000 in the Seed round represented by this 2015 deck.
Smartcar — Smartcar Seed Deck
The 10-slide deck Smartcar used to raise a $2M seed round from Andreessen Horowitz in 2015, published in full by co-founder and CEO Sahas Katta on the Smartcar company blog in February 2020. Author edits: the company redacted its two advisor names and titles on the team slide, and the competitive landscape slide anonymises 21 competitors as "Company 1-21". No slides were otherwise removed from the released version.
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- Stage
- Seed
- Raised
- $2,000,000
- Year
- 2015
- Slides
- 10
- Source
- Smartcar (company blog)
01Smartcar: an API for vehiclesCover
02The big problem: developers cannot talk to carsProblem
03One API across every major car brandSolution
04SDKs for every language developers already useProduct
05Unlocking a car in three lines of codeProduct
06Connected cars jump from 10% to 80% of new salesMarket
07The only pure-software play built by a startupCompetition
08Six industries a vehicle API unlocksCustomer
09Two founding engineers, advisors withheldTeam
10The ask: a $2M seed, Series A to be determinedAsk
Deck context
About this deck
The 10-slide deck Smartcar used to raise a $2M seed round from Andreessen Horowitz in 2015, published in full by co-founder and CEO Sahas Katta on the Smartcar company blog in February 2020. Author edits: the company redacted its two advisor names and titles on the team slide, and the competitive landscape slide anonymises 21 competitors as "Company 1-21". No slides were otherwise removed from the released version. This seed presentation from 2015 contains 10 slides and records $2,000,000 in funding. Its sequence moves through cover, problem, solution, product, and later supporting sections. The outline below pairs every slide with its extracted text so researchers can study how the argument develops, not only how the pages look.
Key facts
| Company | Smartcar |
|---|---|
| Stage | Seed |
| Amount raised | $2,000,000 |
| Year | 2015 |
| Slide count | 10 |
| Source | Smartcar (company blog) |
| Verification | Verified deck |
Presentation structure
Slide-by-slide outline
- 01
Smartcar: an API for vehiclesCover
Smartcar. An API for Vehicles. A Pure Software Solution.
- 02
The big problem: developers cannot talk to carsProblem
The Big Problem. Developers have no easy way to interact with vehicles. Minutes. Days. Years.
- 03
One API across every major car brandSolution
General Motors, Tesla, Ford, Chrysler and BMW all connect through a single Smartcar API.
- 04
SDKs for every language developers already useProduct
Client libraries for Python, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Objective-C and Java.
- 05
Unlocking a car in three lines of codeProduct
Smartcar Cloud API. import smartcar; car = smartcar.auth('apiKey', 'carId'); car.unlock()
- 06
Connected cars jump from 10% to 80% of new salesMarket
Annual car sales (U.S.): 16.4M in 2014, 17M in 2015, 17M in 2018. Percent connected: 10% in 2014, 20% in 2015, 80% in 2018.
- 07
The only pure-software play built by a startupCompetition
Positioning map with axes running from aftermarket hardware to pure software solution, and from big corp to startup. Smartcar sits alone in the pure-software, startup quadrant. Twenty-one competitors appear as anonymised Company 1 to Company 21 labels.
- 08
Six industries a vehicle API unlocksCustomer
Target customer segments: auto insurance, ride sharing, car rentals, utilities, repair service and food delivery.
- 09
Two founding engineers, advisors withheldTeam
Sahas Katta, CEO and Co-Founder, UC Davis '11 CS (dropout), full stack developer. Sanketh Katta, CTO and Co-Founder, Berkeley '13 ORMS and CS, full stack developer. Two advisor slots are redacted in the version the company published.
- 10
The ask: a $2M seed, Series A to be determinedAsk
The Seed Round. What we're doing: building the founding team, developing the core platform, procuring customers. Seed: $2MM. Where it takes us: launch platform (beta), support multiple car brands, three high value customers. Series A: TBD.
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How many slides are in the Smartcar deck?
The deck has 10 slides. The complete outline on this page lists each slide in presentation order with its available extracted text.
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