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Ariel Asaroff

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
393 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

And with the valuations currently in the VC market,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

There is no real urge to go ahead and sell the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

And by the way, to your question regarding what have we done creatively with the money in this round, we actually cleaned up a lot of the cap table from the older investors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

Tell me more about that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

How did you do that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

We, you know, you send a preemptive, we'll give a good deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

People that felt like they were going to lose their money a few years ago, suddenly found out they were at 20, 25 X and many sold.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

And that made the cap table a lot cleaner.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

On top of 55.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

Say that again.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

On top of 55.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

We didn't count inside the round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

Oh, okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

So what was the total round size?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

I can't remember the exact number, but 55 is the amount of money that we got into the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

Zero accepted.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

No one wanted.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

No one did it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

No one wanted to sell.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Coralogix Breaks $24m ARR, 2k Customers After Turning Down $40m Acquisition Offer in 2019

Actually, in the previous round, it was very interesting.