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Javi Fonda Vila

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
147 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

So my co-founder, Bernard, I met him on Facebook and he has an engineer background.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

Well, I mean, he's been coding since he was seven years old.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

And we had a match on social media about like we were, you know, wanting to develop a really similar project.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

And we were like really complementary profiles.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

So we met and we started with Hullet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

No, we've actually raised three rounds until today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

So we have a group of business angels that basically helped us on starting with the project and then we onboarded already to business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

Seven million euros to date.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

Well, we've used online channels, no?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

So since the very beginning, we wanted to build an evolution of the year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

mandatory things to make the whole process of purchasing and implementation self-service.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

So we needed to actually acquire customers that were already online.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

So we started using mostly Google search and social ads.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

And we've been scaling the paid ads channel until today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

That's still our number one channel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

Yeah, actually, we've been playing around a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

During the last nine months, we've created the growth team, which until last year, we were super focused only on product development.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

So most of our team was engineers and customer success to understand the customer feedback.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Holded Grows 100% YoY to $4m ARR, Last Round Valuation $22 Million

Since summer 2019, we started to think about, hey, we need to become also professional on user acquisition.