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Raul Arora

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
182 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

Sorry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

I think about, uh, five months ago, five to six months ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

Yeah, that was an angel round done by an Indian VC firm called Titan Capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

And then a couple of US investors as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

Brendan Rogers, who's the founder of VAB, along with his partner, Harshal Mehta.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

And then there's another Indian entrepreneur, very popular, Kunal Shah, who's the founder of Fred.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

I think close to a million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

We had a very small revenue, $400 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

We are doing approximately $7,000 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

Um, example is this company called Zomato from India.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

And, uh, they are paying us because we are helping them streamline the entire tech hiring process, helping them filter a lot of candidates before they actually lined them up for interviews.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

And we are also, you know, saving a lot of, a lot of their engineering bandwidth because our software is very optimized to take interviews now, but typically an engineer would spend around.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

an hour one and a half hour to take an interview to complete an interview in our software it is so convenient that you can wrap up the same interview in about 45 minutes without having uh to give any trouble to the candidate and the candidate experience is also top notch so this company is paying us around uh uh close to 1800 a month and that's your biggest customer that's that's our biggest customer so far but yeah there are three to four more coming up very soon so it's great and how many customers total today

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

So we have a total of approximately 90 plus customers to be, to be, to be, to narrow it down to a particular number and out of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

Nine zero.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

Out of which, out of which few of them, uh, were early adopters.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

So they are kind of on an, on a lifetime deal, but, uh, some of them close to about 30 odd are recurring paying customer, which, which constitute a part of $7,000 MRR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

Great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

First time customers was quite a hustle.