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Candice Factor

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
189 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

Yeah, so our last round was our seed round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

We raised that last time this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

And amazing investors from funds like Inovia, Quiet Capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

How much did you decide to raise?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

So in our last round, we raised 5 million US and we have incredible angels as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

Lots of interesting folks from Shopify, Lambda School, Solana, Endeavor, very interesting people who are participating.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

Yeah, we raised a pre-seed round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

We raised a safe as well because there was a lot of interest and we'll be sharing some further funding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

That was in 2020.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

That was just a friends and family 750K round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

I have Ivan as an investor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

I'm a huge fan of the Wattpad team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

Also, the head of product, Tarun Sekdeva is an investor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

I mean, we were...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

We were three times oversubscribed for that round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

We had 15 million of interest.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

I think two things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

One, a really clear vision for where we want to take Disco and lots of interest from knowledge creators and organizations that wanted a tool like this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

For a seed round, it really was the product vision.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Disco Helps Hundreds of Customers Facilitate Live Learning, Can They Beat Hopin?

Yeah.