Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Patrick O'Luanaigh

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
152 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

It was really interesting, but it wasn't a platform that was going anywhere.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

And we fell in love with VR three years ago, saw the first Oculus headset.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

Sony showed us their headset very early on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

And we just kind of went nuts over it, to be honest with you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

It was bootstrapped up to a few years ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

We raised capital primarily for VR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

We realized that virtual reality, you know, three years ago was very early.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

There were no VR headsets launched.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

We wanted to be in early and understand it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

And we had some profits, you know, in the bank, but we didn't have enough to fund it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

So we actually raised some money through a UK VC, relatively small UK VC called Mercy Technologies, and they've supported us over the last few years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

And that's worked pretty well for us, actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

So how much total have you raised?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

I've raised about $6 million so far.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

No, I mean, we did the investments really before there was any VR market at all.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

So it is purely on what people think the market is going to be and where we think we're going to be in terms of sales and revenue over the next few years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

It is difficult.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

You certainly can't value a company like ours on current revenue and current profit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

I mean, not least because we're not profitable yet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 595: nDreams is #1 VR Application Creator, 250,000 Sold, $6M in Funding with CEO Patrick O'Luanaigh

This is still so early.