AI Weekly Malaysia

Gamma, a presentation startup with over 100 million users, has acquired Accel-backed design startup Lica to establish a new design research lab. Lica's co-founders, Priyaa Kalyanaraman and Purvanshi Mehta, will lead the lab to explore new visual and interactive communication formats. Lica previously raised $4 million and focused on AI models for creating brand-compliant marketing videos for e-commerce sites.

Why: SaaS founders can observe a practical strategy of combining frontier AI research (Lica's focus on communication models) with established distribution (Gamma's 100M+ users) through an acqui-hire. AI/ML builders should note the industry push beyond static presentations toward AI-generated, interactive visual communication formats.