Amit Shanbhag
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Um, so this is a real problem.
We realized that there was a huge opportunity.
We knew how to solve it.
Um, we quickly built a prototype.
Um, and that's how Rocket Reach was born.
Okay.
Yeah, so it's five people right now.
There are three co-founders, and then there's one salesperson and one customer service person.
So we are really, really tiny.
We are completely bootstrapped, 100%.
I did try to raise a small round, and I can tell you something about my experience.
But very quickly, I did try to raise a round.
How much?
Uh, we tried to raise a small round.
So we tried to raise about like 750 K. Okay.
I won't tell you the valuation, but, uh, 750 K small seed.
Um, the terms we got, uh, terms from maybe three people, two people for sure.
And the third was about angels.
They were all, um, you know, in retrospect, we should probably, uh, maybe gone to angels, but we went to institutional investors.
Got it.