Joe Keely
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And I think that done well, and there is, again, a very big difference between doing something and doing something well.
We really have a lens on the world that says vertical SaaS platforms are literally worth three to five to 10 times more
if this strategy is implemented well with the right technology.
You got it all.
You got it.
So we exist to accelerate that potential.
So let's look at quarters, not years.
So we, the CEO founder of Sports Engine is at Rally Ventures.
So one of my co-founders.
So we incubated this inside of Rally Ventures, which has offices in Minneapolis and Silicon Valley.
And then we went out for a seed raise and we brought in investors.
Emergence Capital in the late summer, fall of last year, and then Fast Follow by Crosslink.
So this has been really predominantly venture-backed really from the beginning.
We've raised 10.6 million seed round and we're off and running.
No, that was just an extension on the... It was a slight... So we did 6.6 and then we added four to it.
Ah, got it.
We had been talking with the same investors all along and it was just more of a timing thing as part of the seed race.
We're looking to do a Series A. We have plenty of runway, which is always a good thing, but the timing on it, we'll see.
We have about 27 folks on our team today.
A little over half.