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Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
127 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

I launched the company in 2011, raised a seed round in 2012, and then raised our A round in seven days in 2013.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

We've raised $10 million total, and our series B is the most recent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

Oh, just because fundraising can be quite of a bear as entrepreneurs talk about.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

And so we figured out different ways in which it scaled the business pretty quickly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

You can actually raise capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

Uh, great question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

So two parts to that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

The first one is the lead investor was not a firm I was at, um, but they, uh, they were kind of got a first look at what we were doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

Um, and in terms of the trend, we basically, we showed them a product at the time, um, that worked that actually measured the impact of PR.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

And back then in 2013, I mean, that was just unfathomable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

Nothing like that existed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

And so when we showed them that it worked and showed them the prototype of it, it was pretty quick to generate some interest.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

So we don't address the total number of customers or total amount of revenue, but we have a wide range of customers and a lot of really big brands that use it all the way down to nonprofits.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

Yeah, we just don't talk about the total number of clients, but it's a wide range.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

Well, for a lot of the reason why a lot of companies are, um, they generally don't disclose revenue amounts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

Yeah, I totally appreciate the question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

And if I was on the flip side, I'd want to know the answer, too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

I mean, the simple equation is you multiply the answer I gave in terms of our average revenue by the number of customers and then you get our revenue.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

There you go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

We have between 100 and 10,000.