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Saravana Kumar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
222 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

About, yeah, 40, 50K, something like that, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

Sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

The core product of the business is called BizTalk 360, and that's how the company was started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

Like, I used to work as a consultant in one of the Microsoft technologies called BizTalk Server.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

It's a middleware, it's a deep tech product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

And I spent 10 years as a consultant in various parts of UK.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

And I found a gap when it comes to enterprise customers on security auditing, et cetera.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

And that's how the company got started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

It just started out of my living room.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

And it's, I never thought, you know, I'll form a company out of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

Like, you know, I just was a hardcore tech person.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

Like, still I do coding, just to give a reference, how hard the hardcore technical...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

It just started off and then that gradually grown into a five people company in London.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

I used to run up to five members.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

I used to run the company from my own house.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

We had just converted one of the living rooms into a small office and I managed to pull the team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

Then in 2013, we started up our India operations with a small 500 square feet office and about 10 people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

And then in 2015, we set up our first proper office with about a capacity of, it can take about 50, 55 people capacity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

We set up our office.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Kovai $8.5m Revenue, India Bootstrapped, 3 Core SaaS Products

That's in India, yeah.