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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

Yeah, so this month we did about $750,000 of net new business.

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

So we're getting back to where we were pre-COVID.

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

We had a little bit of a hit, you know, with the worrying that happened with COVID for one month.

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

But we've consistently grown and consistently hit our targets every month.

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

Um, so, uh, well, I suppose, yeah, yeah, we were, we're kind of at 3 million, right.

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

Uh, I guess the, um, what really happened, um, churn, I guess, like customers that we had that, um, were in the recruitment and the event space in particular got really heavily hit.

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

Um, I think, you know, in particular in the UK now, you know, those types of, you know, we we've had Nick a complete.

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

Lockdown.

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

And then we've gone back just recently in the last couple of weeks into lockdown.

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

So, you know, those businesses are heavily hit.

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

So we like when we had started in 2017, you know, we had like a focus on SMB businesses.

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

So, of course, SMB businesses have been particularly we've been moving up consistently since.

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

you know, away from the smaller companies up to, you know, larger employee companies.

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

But, you know, that was part of like a large part of our custom base and that part of that custom base has been hit particularly hard as well.

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

And a lot of that, like a portion of that is coming back.

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

But, you know, that was the main hit.

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

And then it was also just the disruption of going from in office to work from home.

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

And so we've made that transition now of actually being able to effectively manage a remote sales team.