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Felix Van De Maele

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
150 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

So any kind of shareholder-related is just shareholders, which now includes the venture capitalists and so forth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

Anything that's company decision management-related is just management.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

And there's...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

As a shareholder, as a founder, I don't have any additional rights as a manager.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

I only have more obligations, if you will, because I'm a founder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

Yeah, that's not really public, but it's in a typical range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

I think that's so hard to say.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

It depends where you are in the trajectory, how much you need it, how much you're raising.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

I wouldn't know...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

I mean, market averages, honestly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

I think actually the Series B was a big round for us because we were profitable at the time, didn't have to do anything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

And so for us, we were really at a crossroads with the founders and shareholders decision, okay, what do we want to do?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

And we really believe that we can build a category defining company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

We were the first in our market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

It's a huge opportunity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

It doesn't really, you don't have that chance that often.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

So that's when we said, let's go for it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

And so the Series B, I think that was kind of a big decision for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

And now we've been on the trajectory to get to 100 million recurring revenue as quickly as possible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
683: These 4 pHD's Choose Entrepreneurship, Raise $75M for Data Indexing Tool Collibra with CEO Felix Van De Maele

And kind of the Series C lies in that path.