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Mark Andrich

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
140 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

Really, I tried to invest sustainably myself with the ESG data that was available and with what companies were reporting, and it was just impossible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

So I actually built or helped, I got some software developers to build it, but I built the models and the methodology by trying to invest sustainably myself in a way that also enhanced performance.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

Full-time, there's six.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

I'm the sole founder, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

We raised a little bit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

We bootstrapped initially, but we've raised $500,000 over the past three to four years from friends, family, and employees have put in a little bit as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

We, about a year ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

Oh, that was a hundred thousand from, uh, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

Uh, so around, um, it was around eight, eight mil.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

Uh, what we, uh, what we've done is really, um, we've been very careful about who we've,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

selected as a combination of us selecting, sometimes they don't want us as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

But basically, you know, we've been very careful about who we choose as, I guess, as investors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

But it's also, you know, we also kind of would rather get customers than investors.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

And so we've just sort of gone along like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

Yeah, that's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

I own just over 90%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

Yeah, we've been profitable for three years now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Sole founder hits $1.1m run rate, profitable selling ESG data to 30 fund managers

It's been kind of break-even, but only because we've been investing as much