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Giancarlo Di Leo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
122 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

And then we've now been outward, like one of the customers that we just signed on, which is full spectrum testing, was a proper full sale, which was we went out, we prospected them, we found them, went through the entire process, pitched them on the concept of the platform, what you get to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

Why it's a good idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

And so that was the one that we recently just press released on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

And that was like a full prospect.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

The customers that we have right now, the first set, like the copper deals, an example, have been through our internal network that we'd be able to do one-to-one relationships on that we brought in very quickly into this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

Because our main business model is them using our escrow and paymaster services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

That's where our main revenue is going to be coming from, where we're actually acting as the escrow, the third party holding the money, and then paying out everyone's commissions, and we're making money on the fees that we're charging out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

Um, most, most likely what's, uh, is the pricing needs to increase.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

Um, I think right now as any new startup, we've decided to go with this pricing to focus on getting, um, decent clients on there and running through, um, it's going to grow and change the business and that, that monthly fee is going to change as we turn on more features and we're providing, uh, more services for people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

Right now, we're the two co-founders, but we have our core development team that we have, which is three people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

And we have our small BD team who are about four people, a part of the BD team as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

So it's a combination of some of them are equity-based.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

We did do a small raise with N49P in Toronto, one of the investment groups.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

That was January that we announced it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

Right there, we raised $350,000 US.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

Well, because of some of the numbers that we had booked, like the contracts that we already booked onto the system before bringing them in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

And don't forget too, like the contracts that we have, it's not about that monthly, it's about those other services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
SaaS Startup Raises at $3m Valuation Helping Precious Metal Dealers Verify Buyers and Sellers

So like the copper deal that