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Prasanna

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
391 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

right number two uh we are finding that there are funds now who are coming in and saying hey we'll just pick up secondaries from these founders or from us right and they're not looking at a primary infusion or a small primary infusion and they would love to pick up equity in a sas company that's actually profitable and growing i mean are you seeing sequoia in india excel in india are they are they approaching you and saying hey we'd love to buy up that five percent you own in that five million dollar sas company

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

No, no, not yet, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

Because they are more in the traditional model of, hey, show me a billion dollar TAM, show me how you can get to a billion dollar IPO and stuff like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

But there are so many search firms and so many PEs and mini PEs in the US who are now like, if it's a SaaS company, they're like throwing an email at it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

And all of our founders who cross a certain level, they have like an email a week in their inbox saying, hey, can we talk to you?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

So the Indie VC, we are using the straight Indie VC term sheet, the exact same thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

So in that, the founders, if they do not raise any further capital, they start buying back with a percentage of their revenue every month or every quarter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

One year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

One year plus.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

But it's on a month-on-month basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

It's not all at once.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

We are looking at doing that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

So we do want to give founders more optionality in terms of choosing to do that buyback.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

So if we can delay the payments, we can prorate the payments, do stuff like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

But when they're coming to us, they're not coming to us at the level that you are getting them in, which is at a $20,000 MRR out of $50,000 MRR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The YC of India Writes 47 Checks at $100k each for 5%, $2.5m Valuation

they're coming to us at practically no revenue, right?