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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

These students, they will take one course in the fall, maybe one course in the spring, or they might take one or two courses in the year.

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

So there's a lot of variety here.

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

So essentially it's not that they are using in every month.

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

So depending on where they're taking courses, they're using our technology and they're paying for it.

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

So that's another thing to point out.

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

So we launched the product in 2019.

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

I think we'd have hit a million revenue in 2020.

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

This year we would do, actually, you know what, I'm not going to share the numbers right now for a few reasons, but we are going to do pretty well this year because the market is pretty hot right now for ed tech.

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

Schools are looking for these kinds of products in the market.

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

It's a great question.

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

So for us, the way we look at the business is adoption in a particular course.

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

So let's say a university wants to just try us and they launch us into a set of courses and we get paid for that.

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

I mean, that is something what we call is courseware revenue.

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

We track that separately from ARR, which is our contracted revenue, one to five year contracts.

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

So typically what we find is that when a school starts using our technology, let's say in a few courses, it takes them about one to two years to be able to get enough data to buy an enterprise license.

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

So our enterprise license is always a goal.

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

We want to sign a five-year deals with all our clients, but we take them through the journey of in terms of land and expand to that enterprise level.

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

So that's the business model for us.

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

You know, we launch into schools and we have seen that and proven that model is, you know, it takes about some time for them to try the product that they buy.

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

And, you know, universities, as you know, are very conservative.