Samir Patel
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as well now.
The growth in the U.S.
is much more verticalized marketplaces.
So, you know, we're not a jobs marketplace that we do jobs just for the gig economy, for example, or, you know, people who are saying, hey, we're going to try to do like a marketplace for doctors, for example.
So there's a lot of verticalized ones in the US, but there are massive land grabs happening in every other part of the world.
And Kahuna's got, you know, leading customers in Asia, leading customers in Latin America.
And so we're just systematically building out a pretty wide book.
Private company, but way over a hundred.
So we're growing, you know, we're growing really, really fast.
I think our, you know, our, as we're investing heavy on the sales and marketing side, we're actually starting to see really good on the ground traction on the go-to-market side consistently across all the jobs.
We've raised capital.
Kovuna is backed by SoftTech, Sequoia Capital, and Tenaya Capital.
And we've raised close to $50 million.
No, Tenaya.
Tenaya Capital.
I mean, I think, you know, it's no different from any SaaS company.
uh, on the turn side.
I mean, I think, I think in our case, it's a function of, you know, having to do a lot more due diligence on, uh, the viability of the customers we're going after.
Remember we are going after a slew of marketplaces.
Some of them are early stage.