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Kim Walpole

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
130 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

So it was interesting in tandem of trying to get Paul into a clinical trial, you know, this idea started to kind of mull in my head and, you know, was talking with a couple of folks about, okay, can we use technology to, you know, really affect a very manual process?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

Like currently people are using paper binders, Excel spreadsheets, you know, it's a really, really manual process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

And so it would be, gosh, probably a couple of months that we actually started working on it because we had already been, you know, while we were going through this with Paul, kind of figuring out some things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

No, it was three years ago that Paul died.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

No, that's okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

So we started the company, you know, in 2016.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

Officially.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

So we bootstrapped as far as we could go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

We were really fortunate because our first customers, while we had an MVP, were willing to pay something so that we could continue to build the technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

And from there, we have kind of

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

pulled together this process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

And, you know, we started with actual paying customers to start.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

And then we got to the point where we decided, okay, we're going to need to raise capital so that we can continue to scale the company, add additional people on, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

And we raised $750,000 back in the end of December, and now we're doing a $2.5 million raise.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

Correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1315 Her Best Friend Died From Terminal Cancer, She Launches MedTech SaaS Raising $2.5m on $10m Pre

That's a good question.