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Justin Fischer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
222 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

So $250 a month is kind of expensive in the normal banking world, but in high risk, it's actually really cheap.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

They'll pay us, say, $150 for that compliance work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

And then as they grow and the more products they stack on top of that customer, like maybe I'm going to do merchant processing for you or insurance, then now I get to stack more and more fees.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

And plus, I'm getting all the deposits, all the loans, all of the additional financial products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

So we manage and open all that up and all those apps just come through our system and all the ongoing maintenance of the compliance is between the bank and you over electronic means now, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

Over the phones and online.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

So how many total banks pay you at least a dollar per month?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

pay us at least a dollar per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

So we have under a dozen banks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

We have over a thousand businesses on the system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

We have, like I said, probably an average of usage right now is averaging in the 15 to 20K a month MRR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

Yeah, well, so this isn't my first rodeo.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

I've been doing this for 20 years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

I was with a company here in Austin called Q2.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

Now everybody knows who Q2 is because we're literally on the MLS stadium that had the game last night.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

So, but I was around in that company when we were really young.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

I've done business B2B SaaS for banks for a long time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

And I was out looking at this market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

I'm a solutions guy first.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

So I went and looked at what the pain points were in banking right now.