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Eran Ben-Shushan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
150 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

Incredible team, incredible talent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

And we're very happy of having this structure in place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

And here in New York, we have all the go-to-market teams.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

So marketing, sales, customer success, client services, and operations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

No, we raised to date $56 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

We just closed our Series D round earlier in April, a month ago, $27 million round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

Listen, the event space is one that, you know, it wasn't always obvious that or not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

It was initially an uphill battle, I would say, to raise capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

Not always maybe the sexiest industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

But over the years, and I think also later on with some of the transactions like Cvent and others, people realize there is a huge market opportunity and one that is very tied and correlated with marketing automation and CRM and events being a black box.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

So huge addressable market, not a lot of sophisticated tools in the market to solve the problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

and pretty complex problem to solve.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

Event planners and in general events are complex.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

There's a high level of anxiety and the set of tools that they need.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

So, you know, Visible is heavy technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

It has a lot of functionality built into it that we were able to execute well over the years and that requires capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

And as for the timing, why now is the right timing?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

Because Visible is, you know, definitely I'm very proud to say after...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

hard work and a lot of passion in the past seven years, is a market leader among modern software for events.