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Luke Feeney

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
157 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

We raised 1.25%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

No, no, no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

I mean, fluffy for Ireland.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

I'm afraid our VCs aren't as enlightened as yours.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

I see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

So it's about like, it's about evaluation by 3.5 of that, or maybe a little bit more than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

That's pre, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

So not too bad.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

So we were happy enough with that, given what we've seen elsewhere in Europe and our valuations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

And back then, valuations weren't quite as heavy as they are now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

And certainly European valuations are a significant discount to US.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

So we're focused on software developers, like we are developer tooling.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

So we're trying to go bottom up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

We're trying to attract software engineers to use it, to bring it into businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

And there's a real range of different sorts of software engineers working in, you know, MarTech, ad tech, working in research, working in a bunch of different areas like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

But it's very, very much a bottom-up strategy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

And then try and expand it into more seats, expand it into more usage, pay-per-usage models then.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Developer Tool Doubled To $240k ARR And Raised at a $14m Post Money Valuation

Yeah, it is a big problem.