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Tara Teppo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
145 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

So the financing service that we bring, so the deals that we originate become investable deal flow for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

Let's use a real example.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

That's too small of a project.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

So let's say that they have a ground heat project and that's going to be 1 million euros to sort of carry that out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

So what they do is through the marketplace, they sort of accept the deal that, okay, this is the provider that we're going to go for.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

And then they submit a financing request.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

If we find that this project is interesting and we decide, okay, we want to invest into this project.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

So we...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

invest the one million euros um to make that project happen you know whether we get like what though you're buying equity in the housing company or what do you mean invest no no we we own the actual sort of ground heat project so okay so you'll own that ground we own that project so it's sort of housing complex yes so so um

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

So we own the actual energy project on the housing company land.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

So they make a subscription agreement, a service agreement with us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

It's โ€“ well, it depends โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

on the over how many years we want to do this, but usually the payback times for these are six to seven years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

And it depends, obviously, of course, how much sort of debt leverage we're able to get on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

Well,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

Well, in the beginning, we're making that in equity, and then we're going to refinance it to sort of bring that debt component there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

Because these are very low-risk... First of all, these are very low-risk clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

housing companies, uh, in Finland.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
She's using her marketplace to fund $1m in ground heating systems in Finland and charging a SaaS Fee

Uh, I mean, these are private, private housing companies.