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Shonak Roy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
348 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

The technology that is being adopted has to comply with the existing regulations, like FERPA is a very well-known regulation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

The other is ADA compliance.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

There are a lot of data security and compliance in place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

Even if you want to sell like five pieces of license per school, you have to be compliant in all of them, otherwise you can't sell.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

So there are significant investments that are needed to be able to comply with those regulations in terms of product processes and how we support our clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

The other piece I would say is that there are also significant investments needed around studying the efficacy of any EdTech solution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

If you think about healthcare, if you're building a drug and you're giving it to the patients, you need to know what's the impact of the drug.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

Especially in EdTech, if it's in classroom learning, it is important to know the impact of that technology to the students.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

We have done over 12 studies with our variety of partners and third parties to prove the value of the product before we could scale the technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

So the investment was quite significant for us to get into this space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

It's very hard to say.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

I don't have the number right now with me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

The average is definitely lower than $12.95.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

Yes, so that's a good point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

So just a couple of other things to mention here is the $12.95 is for per course.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

A course can run between three and four months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

So that's one price you pay for the entire users in that particular course.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

So it's not by month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Edtech SaaS Breaks $4m, Looking at $10m Series B Next

it could be for six months most courses are for three months four months um so that's how we price it because you know if a student buys it for a course and if we charge them per month so this one they have access next month for whatever reason they can't pay for it it's not fair to them not to have access to that platform yeah for that particular course so we pay for the entire course so they pay for the entire course throughout the technology um the other thing to keep in mind is that um you know it's also um you know when students are when we when i say 200 000 users i mean