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Mads

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
146 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

So no specific amount was actually earmarked for M&A because General Atlantic and existing investors actually are able to allocate extra funds to projects like the one we've been through, the double acquisition here and the acquisition of Saltmate specifically.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

So it...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

The good thing is there's no real boundaries around what we can use.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

But, of course, every company tries to preserve the cash for the organic growth, for opportunities coming ahead.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

But we have had opportunities where we've actually been able to preserve a lot of that cash and make other facilities for these acquisitions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

Yes, a small amount went to secondaries for, as you just said, founders, some founders, early employees, some very first business angels, taking a little bit out for house or apartment or for savings.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

Yeah, so first of all, the first part of this strategy actually started one and a half years ago, a little bit more discussing it with our existing board and investors and in the management teams.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

So we knew that we had some really, really strong partners in the ecosystem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

So our approach is actually, it's a kind of a luxury approach because we know the companies very well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

Of course, we have several partners within knowledge base, several partners within chatbot automation and so on and so forth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

We quite early realized that we have to invest a lot into the core of our platform, routing, automations, on the conversation side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

However, there is some really, really core tech and talent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

Plus, I go to market angle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

We always have to remember, which is difficult in an ecosystem, that we probably would be able to build ourselves at some point, maybe,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

But it's a big maybe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

It's a lot of risk.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

There's a lot of talent and leadership that we have to organically drive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

And time to market disrupting one of the largest software industries in the world, like the customer service industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

It's a $300 billion if you include CRM and some MarTech.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Details behind Dixa $43m Acquisition, $15m combined ARR, $400m Valuation

you have to move very, very fast.