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Mathilde Collin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
191 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

And so I think I couldn't have started this company without funding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

So that was for the initial funding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

Then the Series A. So we could have not raised our Series A because we were close to profitability.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

And we had spent a third of what we had raised during our seed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

So we had plenty of money left.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

And I think the reason why we raised is, there are two reasons.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

One is for the person we raised with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

So we raised with Social Capital and Mamoun from Social Capital, who was a serious investor in Slack, in Vox, in Energon, like a lot of messaging or collaboration products.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

that have been super successful.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

And so I thought he could help.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

And I liked him a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

The second reason is we could have been profitable, but we could not have invested a lot of money in like super talented people or hiring 10 people at once because we needed it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

And I think on like...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

Our mission is to reinvent email for companies and to be the default business email client.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

It's very ambitious, and I think it would take 100 years without funding to achieve that, and hopefully just 10 years with funding to achieve that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

20 people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

Yes, we moved everyone from France to San Francisco.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

Probably 200.