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G.J. DeWilde

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
123 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

And that can also help us with scaling and making sure that the integrations that our customers are relying on, that they don't break and that we can also easily scale now from the 100 connectors in the coming years to 1000 or maybe 2000 different connectors for our customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

When did you launch the company?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

We launched it in 2018 with our first product and actually launched only our first unified APIs one and a half year ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

Yeah, at that time, it was mostly my brother and me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

At that time, we were already closing some customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

We had a few small angel tickets, and that enabled us to really build the foundation that we're able to use today to really scale out the platform, map difficult APIs to our platform, and really were able to focus on quality.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

And that enabled us to accelerate now in the past two years as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

We're still burning each month, but it's manageable at this point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

And we're also looking to raise VC money in the upcoming year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

So that's our target at this point to make sure that we can really invest in the right things, that we can get the most market share, because this is really a tough problem for a lot of companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

the number of SaaS companies is exploding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

I don't need to tell you, you're well experienced in the area, but that's also a large opportunity because everyone needs integrations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

If you don't have integrations, you're dead in the water and you need to integrate with larger platforms like NetSuite, Workday, but also Salesforce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

And those companies are never going to integrate with you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

And that's where you really can benefit from the power of unified APIs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

I would say around 30K at this point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

Does that make you nervous at all?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

No, not at all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

We have a lot of great investors who are looking to do more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Codat Competitor ApiDeck Hits $600k ARR, 100% YoY Growth

So no, not at all.