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Lars Van Weeren

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
136 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

And those are both companies that are probably going bankrupt.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

So, yeah, that's the reason that the MPS is 50 plus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

It's all integrated.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

Companies are using it on a daily basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

So we finally found something that's really working for us as a team as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

And we have quite an advantage now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

But we know for sure that if we bounce back and recruitment will become hot again, there will be more competition.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

So we need to keep this advantage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

We want to open up in New York and in Singapore so we can cover all the three time zones.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

So, yeah, we definitely need to move cash for that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

around 3 to 4 million, we would say.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

Yeah, I think it would be a typical Series A, so I think you would give away, or at least how it works here in Europe, 20 to 30% of the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

But for us, it's

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

the terms are more important and the investor and the investor really needs to be able to help us in the US because most of our new business is now US I think it's all New York San Francisco LA so yeah we can definitely need to help there so maybe raising 3 million on a 9 million pre something like that for the new business which is doing right now about a million dollar run rate yeah interesting very cool okay what else anything else that you want to chat about that I haven't asked about

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

Well, I think the cool thing about measuring candidate experience is for companies where their candidate is also their client.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

So Virgin is one of our clients, and they found out that in the beginning they were offering quite a bad candidate experience, and it was costing them 5 million per year, bottom line, because people were canceling their subscription.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

So for companies out there where the candidate is also the client,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

you should definitely start measuring candidate experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech

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