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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

So almost kind of done.

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

$200,000 is what we raised in 2016 is what I told you.

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 are about to raise this year, 2022, around $1.2 million.

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

In equity.

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

We also use somewhat of working capital if we call it debt.

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 use bank lines to fund a gap between what customers pay us and what we need to pay our salaries in time.

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

So there is always a trade gap as we call it and that's funded typically through working capital funding as we call it or bank funding as we call it.

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 leverage our equity and our balance sheet to get some capital from banks too.

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

use it on a temporary basis.

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

Our valuation at that point of time was around a million at that point of time, million dollars.

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 have finalized this at around 30 CR.

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 around $4 million.

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

$4 million is post-money.

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

you can say that your website will be calculated correctly.

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

Well, one of the reasons is that our focus market has been India and we are a company focused on SaaS revenue.

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

And as you just saw the numbers, the Indian numbers are not very large if you count in dollar terms.

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

So obviously, if you are selling into a rupee market, the valuations become lower.

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

Then you are selling this in the US market, for example, where obviously a dollar will fetch you much more.

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 one reason.

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

Secondly, this funds that we are raising is much more from a strategic partner right now, who also happens to be one of our customers.