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Nathan Latka

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
223533 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Or a percent if you can't remember.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

20% to 30%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

When you're looking at deals to go buy, do you also want to see 30% profitability from any founders listening to you that might want to sell to SaaS Group?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Which two did you buy out of bankruptcy and how does that work?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

In January of 2020.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Yeah, in January of 2023, the CEO of Zen loop, when when being quoted about the liquidation process said, quote, we were not able to get the required approval in a short amount of time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Unfortunately, that can happen with a large group of more than 40, more than 40 shareholders.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

So when you a couple quick questions here, I know Dirk leads your originations, but do you have any databases you look for to get notified when things go into bankruptcy like this?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Or is it really just you and Dirk picking up the phones calling people?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

So Zenloop, just stay on that for the sake of an example.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

I think it's educational for the audience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

You know, NADA put in 4.8 million euros in 2019, Signals put in 6.1 in 2020.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

So about 10 million raised at that company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Just to be clear, when you go in, this is going through bankruptcy, all the equity gets wiped out, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

And they only got a dime of the dollar.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

So they don't like, SaaS Group now owns Zenloop.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The Micro PE Playbook: They Bought 20 SaaS Companies, $60m ARR, 300 people

But if you look at Zenloop's sort of subsidiary cap table, it says 100% owned by SaaS Group.