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Assaf Resnick

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
190 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

It's very tactical.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

We had originally done a Series B, oh, gosh, when was it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

I guess it was back in mid-2015, I want to say.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

And at the time, we were fortunate enough to have multiple term sheets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

And we ended up taking a Series B with a great partner.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

Our partners today include Sequoia and Mayfield and Battery.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

And we were fortunate enough to have multiple term sheets.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

So at the time, one of the investors came and said, hey, can we add a little bit more money?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

And at the time, we didn't really need more money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

I didn't really want the dilution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

The sun was shining in the VC environment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

And then towards the

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

the end of 2015, you know, people started downgrading the value of Snapchat and all these other unicorns, and people were thinking that winter was, you know, rain clouds were forming, and people were thinking that winter is coming again in the VC environment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

And

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

Turns out later that after a year, it looks like the rain clouds had disappeared by the time we didn't know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

So we had an opportunity to bulk up the balance sheet by another $5 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

And when I saw rain clouds forming, I said, hey, maybe it makes sense to get a winter coat from a capital perspective, just to have a healthier balance sheet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

It was a very pragmatic move.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important

No, cause this was very much, you know, it was just a few months after we'd already done the series B. So we had plenty of pipeline.