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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, of course, we had the luxury of knowing many, many companies in the ecosystem.

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

And the one that we really wanted was also the one we joined forces with.

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

But if, for instance, Eric and the investor said, no, we only want cash or we only want shares for the matter, then we would have a challenge because that's also kind of the go-to M&A strategy we have from our board and investors, which we believe is the right thing and very important.

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

And as mentioned, Chief Revenue Officer Christian Dorman and myself before have both sold our companies and acquired companies and seen

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

what can you do well here and what have we really done bad and our fair share of mistakes.

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

So we've learned from that and then taking them into Dixit.

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

Yeah.

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

That is not our strategy, actually.

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

Our strategy is definitely going for the people and product.

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

That's an if.

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

We get, of course, some growth momentum into a go-to-market engine, standalone or combined, and there is some ARR included.

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

Of course, that is great, but it's a positive side effect.

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

At this point, we are acquiring companies from the people and the tech and the IT and the product.

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

That serves our big, big goal and vision of creating our own category and

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

creating what we call value experience, and basically getting to not a valuation metric, but a value metric around custom friendship score.

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

So it's Olivio, and it's Saltmate, and it's Samiros, and then the Dixit platform in the center.

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

Correct.

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

So Olivio being the knowledge platform,

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

SolveMate be the automation platform, Mirrors being the custom intelligence or the intelligence platform, and then Dixit being the experience platform in the center.

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

It's not a launched idea, but we're happy to share our...