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Pietari Suvanto

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
131 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

They focus on a lot of marketing activities.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

You can search for those kinds of filters, those kinds of queries in our system, and it gives you companies that are digitally oriented, for example.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

And then on clicking on the company, you can find a lot of other information about it, and then

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

start contacting them on that basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

That is one way to do it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

And then the bigger companies, what you just read out, they use the data that we produce, and then they plug it into their existing other systems.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

They might be, for example, BI tool, or of course, CRMs and other platforms they want to use in their internal ecosystem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

So that's two ways.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

And how do you make money?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

Subscription.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

Subscription.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

It's based on seats.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

And of course, on how many country databases you have activated.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

And then, of course, the API if you want to take data out of the system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

So that's the third aspect.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

On an average, it's around $400.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

And that ranges from a few hundred dollars to thousands of dollars per month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

We launched the business in 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

It was three of us that launched it out, and now we are 80 people, so we've been growing pretty fast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 580: Self Funded Vainu SaaS Hits $400K MRR, 1000 Customers To Serve Up Business Data with CEO Pietari Suvanto

We're based in Helsinki in Finland, where I'm calling it in Stockholm.