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Cenk Sidhar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
140 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

When was the 800 grand?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

It was angel round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

It was 2018 and 19.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

It was like not one round, but it was a continuous race.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

We are, but as I mentioned, we are making significant transition to become technology provider rather than to be like a professional services provider.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

So let me briefly explain what I mean with that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

Our marketplace that we just talked about, the number of questions, the number of clients that have access to, is a platform that clients can engage the experts directly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

But now, we basically implemented our technology to large enterprises.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

We are in the process of engaging and implementing our technology to large professional services firms so that the

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

internal employees of these large organizations will be able to ask questions internally and that will be pure SaaS play and we are very excited about it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

So that puts us more in the technology provider category than the service provider.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

Yeah, I think we are projecting to be somewhere about five to seven million this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

Yes, again, our Lumina product that we...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

implement the knowledge management tool to large organizations and we are working with the largest organizations of the world they're like a one to three million dollar you know price value that what we're providing right now and also we are building such partnerships for the api basically integrating or q a product with third-party platforms imagine bloomberg terminal

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

we we're not like working with them right now but i'm just giving an example you have the you know full access point to the like platform terminal and there will be a little slot that you will be able to ask a question on the front end you see bloomberg or doll jones but on the back end you are seeing you're basically reaching out to our expert network and get real-time content from our experts i just gave the bloomberg an example but there are like 10 plus platforms

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

that size, we are working on providing our unique solution that brings human data and technology together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

I think a year ago at that time, this time you're talking about half of it or even one third of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

We have a very continuous growth pace, especially with the number of new API partnerships that we are bringing on the table.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

Here's the deal, because we invest heavily in technology, and that's in line with our vision moving from marketplace to technology provider.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Ask Experts Anything Marketplace Did $1.5m Last Year, 20,000 Experts Paid, 80 Customers, $5.5m Raised

We invest a lot in data science, how we can automate and provide more scalable opportunities.