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Heiko Schwarz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
133 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

As of today, we serve a customer base of 130 enterprises, which are headquartered across Europe and North America.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

For sure, the supply chains, which means the objects that we are monitoring, might be suppliers, sub-suppliers, customers, owned facilities, warehouses, DCs, seaports, airports, are spread across the entire globe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

So it's really a global topic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

But our go-to market is focusing on EMEA and North Americans.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

We bootstriped in the beginning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

So Rolf and myself, as the two founders, we brought in our savings into the foundation of risk methods.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

Come on, wait.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

It was tough.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

We wanted to give a decent signal to the market that it's not just a gambling thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

So we put in a six-digit figure into the foundation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

Yeah, absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

It was really an all-in decision.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

And as I can say today, I'm married with Risk Methods.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

That's good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

So far, we raised north of $20 million through in Series A and Series B. We went through in Series B springtime last year, and we raised around $15 million into the Series B. Okay, so $1.5 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

We are getting really close to this spot and we have no several options on the table that we are discussing and we believe that a good option would be that we...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

Potentially extend our reach with some additional funds, but not going to in series C right now and which would be more probable to do maybe end of 2019.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

It's a great question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

So we considered venture debt several times in the past.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

At the end of the day, the terms that we got from venture capitalists, money versus equity, were different.