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Ben Currin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
194 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

We started with that beachhead.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

That was the pure kind of single product for multiple years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

Over time, it's really expanded.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

Everything from payments, we have a payments platform and a payments product that is used across our customer base.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

That's both inbound payments from homeowners to their HOAs, as well as outbound from HOAs to vendors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

We provide a number of different treasury services for community association banks to connect them to the deposits that they are linked to through those associations, which is significant.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

It's a place where a lot of

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

Relatively low-cost deposits are kind of aggregated by community association banks, as well as other products around kind of the vendor management ecosystem that are folks doing work in these HOAs, whether that's landscapers or electricians or insurance companies, et cetera.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

So we've, over time, really stretched into a lot of the different components of this ecosystem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

But to your point, the beachhead and the first and most important vital product for us has and will always be that SAS product that is the general ledger system of record.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

Yeah, that's fair.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

No, it's less than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

I mean, it's certainly less than 2% to 3%, but we also โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

I'd say it's a value add for our customers, but it's also a way for them to strip out a lot of the friction between them and their customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

So if you think about living in an HOA, do you mail a check to your clubhouse every month?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

Do you drop it off, or can you set recurring payments?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

Something like that that sounds so simple, but that's what we're walking into often in the way these HOA management companies have to manage things like their payments processes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

So we're stripping out a lot of the friction as much as we can.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

Yeah, so we didn't raise any real external capital until 2022.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook

So it was the summer of 2022, which was great.