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Neeraj Ranjan Raut

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
113 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

So Hiver is basically a tool that lets teams manage emails coming into a shared email account, like support at your company.com or info at your company.com, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

So, you know, let's say you are a team of say five to 10 people that basically handles that emails that come into a shared email account.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

You'd want to delegate emails, keep track of who's doing what, look into analytics of, you know, how you're doing, you know, where we are and what needs to be done and, you know, how your team is performing, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

We basically let you do that right from your Gmail account.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

Absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

So think of us like Front or Zendesk to some extent, or Freshdesk to some extent, right inside your Gmail account.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

So yeah, we are at $115,000 in MRR right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

Yeah, we did not actually accurately bootstrap.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

So we raised around $175,000 through angels back in 2012 or so.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

And then we bootstrapped it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

We're a small team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

We just kept growing it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

And we went through a couple of pivots on the product too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

And then we have basically brought it to $1.5 million in ARR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

And now we are going to announce our Series A next month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

So the Series A is close to $4 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

So they are venture investors in India.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

In India, okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

It's an equity note.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1371 Gmail Helpdesk About to Close $4m Round on $20m Pre with $1.4m in ARR

You know, it's an equity pretty much like what a typical series in the U.S.

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