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Roy Raanani

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
193 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

Over $20 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

So we had the seed round that was led by Emergence and then Redpoint came in and led the A. And what are you at today in terms of team size?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

We're a little over 40 people, equally split between research and development and the go-to-market side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

It's complicated.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

So our R&D team is in Tel Aviv.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

When I started the business, I was actually living in Switzerland, and I've since moved to the Bay Area, and our go-to-market team is here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

So although I'm Canadian originally, my entire family lives in Tel Aviv or in Israel.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

And my first job in college was working for an Israeli enterprise software company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

So friendships, family, and me being in Switzerland when I started the company just made Tel Aviv the obvious place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

But it goes without saying that it's about people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

And my two co-founders, Micha and Russell, are based in Tel Aviv, and they were the right people to start the business with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

We don't get into the specifics, but you could peg us around 100 enterprise customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

And those are ranging from large companies like Qualtrics with hundreds of sales reps and AdRoll to those hot, high-growth startups like The Outdoor.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

No, I think, I think, you know, we,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

We sell for very different reasons.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

And I think that the core product that we started with, that we went to market with a year and a half ago, for example, would have been better suited for small businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

And as you add more functionality, like a deep bi-directional Salesforce integration, or the ability to take all of your data that Chorus is generating and push it into a red

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

instance so that you can build dashboards in Domo or Tableau or Periscope or Looker or anything like that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars

That functionality just lends itself more to the enterprise.