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James Islay

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
195 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Yeah, that was at the end of 2019.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

We were $7 million and now we've just gone over $10 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Yes, for sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Thank you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Thanks for inviting me to the show.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Not quite.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Uh, I was, uh, I was at a Swiss utility when I was doing the algorithmic trading.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Um, so, so I was doing kind of a bit more slower stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Um, but, but it was, it was good fun.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

It was, I finished it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

I thought it was my dream career, but, um,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

But then I realized that it wasn't, you know, it was sitting behind a desk all day long, which I'm a bit more of a social person.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

So it wasn't for me, really.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

So Cognizant, we help businesses find and engage new business in the B2B space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

So we're providing global contact data, so mobiles, direct dials, B2B emails, and then the tools to engage that data to create new business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

And we've also just recently acquired a business in Germany called Mailtastic, which is an email signature marketing platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

And that really ties back to getting those prospects engaged to help increase conversions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

So that's part of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary

When we're looking at acquisitions, what we're also looking for are tools that help us to inform our data asset and to improve our data quality.

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