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Apoorva Mankad

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
156 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

That's what they pay me for every shipment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

That's the economics.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

$1,500 is what they pay for a vehicle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

They pay me seven cents for tracking it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

Well, I am from the background of working in the software and the technology industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

I got exposed to logistics early on through one of my customers, and I started working with them in 2004, and I launched my company in 2005.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

It's almost 17 years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

It looks like eons ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

The initial days, we were consulting companies to bring technology to them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

Over time, we graduated to create an entire end-to-end solution for them, what is WebExplace today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

And then ultimately, we moved to a pure cloud-based offering.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

And last two, three years, it all has been SaaS.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

In fact, we pivoted to SaaS in 2017, to be more precise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

Until then, we were offering them what we call point-to-point, on-premise kind of solutions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

And India has been really accelerating in this area.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

So I think the journey in the last five years is much more faster than the previous 10 years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

Yeah, so we've worked with about 100 enterprise customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

When we say enterprise, which means each of these are companies and they have probably anywhere from, you know, 5,000 to 8,000 employees working for them across their network.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

And we work with them mainly in Indian markets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising Now: This SaaS Tracks 5m Truck Shipments Per Month, $1m in ARR across 100 Enterprise Customers

And we also have a very strong presence in Southeast Asia and Middle East.