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Anindya Datta

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
258 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

Based off what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

So I don't know if you know this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

Christianity has like 290 denominations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

Wow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

I don't know if you knew that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

I didn't know that either, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

Like 17 of which I believe are evangelical, like the Lutherans and Episcopalians.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

So the definition we were given was, take a swing state like Florida, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

And there are like, whatever, 1400 evangelical churches.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

So to be an evangelical Christian, you need to have been observed in an evangelical church at least once a week for the past six months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

I'm very tempted to answer that, but if I do that... It's my job to tempt you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

But I can tell you the client was, whether the loss or the one, the client was very happy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

No, we raised our first round of venture.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

The company really became a real company in 2013 when we raised our round of venture funding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

For $4 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

So we have not raised a Series B, but I have raised a bunch of money from our existing investors, which is lying on the company's books as a loan, but that will convert when we raise another round of funding, which I would think would be later on this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

Correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

No, we did a $4 million equity funding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections

And I raised notes on top of that.