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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

I mean, that kind of run.

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

And really, 2018, we had had a couple of paying customers.

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

Late 2017 is where we got those first folks.

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

2018, first year in market.

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

So we had had about five years of survival under our belt in terms of bootstrapping the business along.

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

And growth was really good.

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

This has never been a...

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

a highly capital intensive business.

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

But we saw an opportunity in 2022 that we really had gone from just capital efficient to capital constrained and knew we wanted to invest more in product, knew we wanted to invest more in engineering and really take a big swing at this industry.

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

And so we partnered with JMI Equity in a minority investment in 2022.

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

which was great.

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

They've been fantastic partners to us.

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

We've grown the business more than 10X since then.

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

So that's been a great kind of growth story since 2022.

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

Revenue.

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

And home's not far off either, but certainly revenue.

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

And then this past year, in terms of funding, we did a minority recap, brought in another minority investor in Cove Hill, Cove Hill Partners.

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

That was fantastic.

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

We closed that investment and announced it this fall, which, again, has just further added fuel to the fire for us and allows us to keep taking a big swing at this industry.

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

Yeah, I mean, very little.