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Peter Smith

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
122 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

What year?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

The company was launched about five years ago as a name.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

We went down a road first in terms of, since it was focused around measuring collaborative performance, we were looking at the HR space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

The frustration back then was they weren't comfortable with data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

They weren't comfortable with de-identifying.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

They didn't have the authority or the power to actually implement what needed to be done.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

So we then switched.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

Somebody put me on a speaker stand at a conference which was work tech, so technology in the workspace.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

And that's where the first clients came on board, which were companies that were doing major changes in the workplace strategy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

So moving from assigned desks to activity-based workspace, for instance, that were then interested in actually measuring the impact of the productivity and effectiveness of their people and their spaces.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

First year was about 70,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

And probably in the hundreds last year and...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

Right now, because we've done a major shift toward helping organizations with the workplace strategy, both the work from home and new office environments, we see that going up to probably a run rate of close to a million by the second half of this year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

And what runway are you at right now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

So now we're transitioning in the phase from project-based to SaaS.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

So we don't have the monthly subscriptions yet, but we anticipate that signing those and the first ones of those by the end of the first quarter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

How much revenue did you do total in December?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Collabogence Pivoting from $300k Agency, Raising $1.5m on $5m Pre?

Oh, in December, no.