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Artem Borodatyuk

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
130 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

So if I want to be SEO specialist and work with NathanLatka.com, I need some information about your positions, about your search success and search success of your competitors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

So at that moment, we had no such information at all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

So we had to create Serpstat for our own purposes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

Serpstat at that time had no dedicated team at all when we started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

It was in the beginning of 2013.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

But two years later, in April 2015, in-house product become an independent company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

From this moment, Serpstat started its growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

In April 2015.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

So it was independent company, independent office, team, etc.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

Inside the agency, we started building it in 2013.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

We had money in NetBeak for Serpstat growth at the beginning, but we had no dedicated team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

So it was $5,000 burn rate for this company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

It's very easy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

Per month?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

I mean, yeah, per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

Yeah, for developers and we had no dedicated team in terms of support, customer success, sales guys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

It was tool for Netpeak only.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

And then we in 2015 decided to start it like independent business and we very soon became leaders on the Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Russian markets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

So in 2016 we received from local VC fund Digital Future

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
842: SaaS: Ukraine SEO Tool 3x MRR yoy from $20k July 2016 to $70k July 2017

Okay, and is that all you've raised so far?