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James Isilay

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
171 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

We went from 2021, we went from 11 to 22.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

Last year, 22 to 44.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

And this year, we'll end this month at 52.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

Wow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

So what's driven the growth?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

Are you buying?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

Is it organic?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

How are you doing it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

It's organic now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

I mean, we bought a company called Casper, which is a PLG, like a focused business last year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

And so that when we looked at it was 1.5 million AR and now it's like around about 5 million AR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

And talk about how you got that deal done.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

So how did you find the deal and what did you pay for it?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

So we found the deal because my sales team came to me and said we've got this new competitor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

And they're coming up more and more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

And then what I did is I reached out to the CTO and the CEO to actually see, you know, to engage with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

And because they were in France, we didn't have a great French data set, so we wanted to improve our French data set.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

And also, they had a different model to us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

They were more like, we're more positioned against ZoomInfo.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Fireside Chat with James Isilay of Cognism: Fundraising during the current economic climate

They were more positioned against Lucia.

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