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Sam Cagliucci

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
154 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

And then I think in that process of getting more confident, we also got more confidence selling to larger enterprises.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

So I think that one of our biggest opportunities and challenges over the last year has been we just signed Fossil Group, 500 global stores, signed Vineyard Vines.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

We just launched a global deal with PIMCO.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

These large enterprise deals have taken up a lot of our time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

However, it's also boosted ACV and put us into a sort of totally different stratosphere.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

So we raised our first round of financing in Q1 of 18, raised about two and a quarter as our seed round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

And really the only other financing before that, I mean, we're predominantly bootstrapped, but the only other financing prior to that was accelerators and angels.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

No, I mean, I think that the reality of it is, I think the balance that we have to weigh has to do with how fast can we move, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

And what does our market look like?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

And it's fair to say that with record low unemployment,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

And HR tech started to heat up because companies are understanding employee churn is a major problem for them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

I think that the timing where we sat, you know, we grew very responsibly being bootstrapped the way we were.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

I think that looking at our financing in our last round, it was all about how do we continue to keep our foot on the gas because we were outselling our product a little bit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

About 120.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

Yeah, again, I think at this stage of where we are, it's fine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

I think we're in a position that at any point in time, if we wanted to be breakeven, we could.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

All of our dollars go towards product development.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

Our biz dev team is about 18.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

How many total people?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1Huddle Hits $3.5m in Revenue, 250 Customers, Can He Get $30m Valuation on $10m Series A?

36.