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Samir Patel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
182 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

as well now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

The growth in the U.S.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

is much more verticalized marketplaces.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

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.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

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.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

And Kahuna's got, you know, leading customers in Asia, leading customers in Latin America.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

And so we're just systematically building out a pretty wide book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

Private company, but way over a hundred.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

So we're growing, you know, we're growing really, really fast.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

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.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

We've raised capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

Kovuna is backed by SoftTech, Sequoia Capital, and Tenaya Capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

And we've raised close to $50 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

No, Tenaya.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

Tenaya Capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

I mean, I think, you know, it's no different from any SaaS company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

uh, on the turn side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

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.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

Remember we are going after a slew of marketplaces.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR

Some of them are early stage.