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Enrique Vaz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
137 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

Hey, investors are coming in at X and you're leaving at Y, which is three, four, five, 10 times lower.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

But he understood the issue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

He understood what was fair.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

And what we did is that we buy out 75% of his equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

So he kept a little bit because he was in the early years of the company and we found this was fair.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

And so we were able to get to this number and ended up being good for everybody because for the investors, they could got into on a lower valuation when you look at the average.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

And for me and my other co-founder, Jefferson, which is our CTO, we were able to cap more of our equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

Exactly, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

Something between 5 and 10X discount.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

Yes, it was.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

Let me remember the numbers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

Yeah, but something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

We pay a total of 200K, something like 150K, 200K, something like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

Okay, got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

No, no, no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

Sorry, sorry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

This is, I'm looking at the conversion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

I'm at Brazilian conversion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

We paid him like $30,000, $40,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Brazilian Cloud Security SaaS Hits $750k ARR With $350k Raised, Opening $5m Series A Soon

The final difference was before this seed round 2019, we raised it back in 2017, when we were first starting.