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Marcelo Pugliasi

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
129 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

We have over 800.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

Actually, I started in the year 2000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

We were one of the first startups here in Brazil.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

We had some seed money from one large bank and some entrepreneurs here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

And we've started with our thesis was just about trying to help companies to sell, to improve their sales on their website.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

So it was the very beginning of e-commerce here in Brazil and the very beginning of internet as a general thing here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

And companies were trying to make money with the internet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

So we deployed a web chat.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

in order to try to help them to improve their sales and to improve their businesses on the internet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

What have you raised to date?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

I'm sorry?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

What have you raised to date?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

We haven't raised much.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

We have raised

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

about, let me see, all over the years, $2 million, I think so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

$2 million-ish.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

Yeah, we are actually trying to raise more, you know, because we are in a very hype moment and we are not being able to...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

I don't know how to say that in English, but to attend every opportunity we have, you know, so we have more demand that we can handle at this very moment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

So we are trying to raise more money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1259 Brazilian SaaS Raising $5m on $20m Pre, $9m in ARR, 20% yoy Growth

Oh, this time we are trying to raise about five million, between five and seven million dollars at this very moment.