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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

And despite the rise in fuel prices, it looks like that 2022 and 2023 is going to be a very exciting year for all of us.

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

We are about 70 people, 7-0.

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

We pay them salaries, obviously, and we do raise capital at times.

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

We do also raise some debt funds to pay them.

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

But obviously, most of our payment comes from our customers' revenue.

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

So we are a profitable company and we've been able to make positive profit after tax for many years.

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

I'm sure by now you are absolutely wondering how the country like India works on such amounts, 7 cents, 1 cent, $1,200 of salary, how you wish the employee people from USA would hire from India, right?

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

And that's why we have one of the biggest outsourcing industries in this world.

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

You are right.

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 we pay approximately.

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

Of course, there are people who get paid much higher and people who get even paid less than that.

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

But the average per capita income of India, by the way, is $3,000 a year.

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

Wow.

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

So we raised about $200,000 in 2016.

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

We raised the first round at that point of time.

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

But very recently, we have almost signed up for the next round and that should be

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

In the range of about $1.2 million is what we should be raising.

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

In each VC firm.

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

Absolutely.

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

We are about to raise debt.