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Matt Weirich

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
349 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

So I actually don't have a formal background in real estate or anything like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

It was more of the consumer pain point that drove me to start the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

I was moving from Purdue University up to Chicago, about a two to three hour drive, not terribly far, but it was that real estate search process back in 2011.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

That really opened my eyes to how inefficient the real estate search process was.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

And that May 2011 was actually when FaceTime came out and was just a light bulb moment of putting different things together about what could have been done to streamline that search process for me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

And so, yeah, it was a perfect storm of different circumstances coming together and led to an opportunity that here we are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

10 years later, working on the B2B SaaS side of it instead of the consumer side of it, and hopefully making a big difference to the industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

Who is the business paying?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

Is it the agent?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

Is it somebody else?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

The brokerage?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

So we're actually multifamily focused.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

So we're working with large multifamily owners, managers, and developers of apartment communities, student living, senior living, even military installations and things like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

And so

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

It's the onsite teams, the property management teams, the leasing teams that are using our platform today, and they're using it to streamline the touring experience in that lead to lease part of the funnel to connect with prospects and consumers in a more efficient and transparent way.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

And what are these folks typically paying for you to use the platform and how do you upsell?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

Is it purely based on number of units?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

Yeah, so we actually are a flat fee per property.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Virtual Leasing Tour SaaS Hits $5m Revenue, Sells 60% at $34m Valuation Bringing on New Strategic Partner

A lot of the prop tech companies hitting multifamily are charging on a per unit basis.