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Ben Kartzman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
147 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Yeah, so that's all revenue-driven.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

So thanks to our friends at Inc.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Magazine being able to measure revenue, I think, over the span of three years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

I think the first year that we measured revenue was 2009, and then that jumped into 2012, and it's kind of continued on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Oh, uh, maybe, maybe a couple hundred thousand revenue or maybe, oh, nine was a million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Maybe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Oh, eight was a couple hundred thousand revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Oh, nine was a million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

And then it sort of has grown from there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Yeah, I think we stopped, I don't remember what it was when we stopped, but it was maybe one and one to four and then four to seven and seven to 13 and just kind of kept growing in that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

That's the plan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Yeah, so we're not disclosing full revenue these days because one of our largest investors, but we're on a nice path.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Yeah, so we've got about $26 million into the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

The largest institutional investor is a group called Safeguard, based out in Philadelphia.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

Very knowledgeable investors in the ad tech space, specifically.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

They're a great partner for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

So I think, yeah, for them, it's more of just focus on, you know, Inc.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

I think is great in the early days as you're sort of building and getting growing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised

And then from there, it becomes less about those awards and more just about execution and client delivery.

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