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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, um, um, so, uh, these are very, uh, you know, you can bring probably in the beginning, like 50, 50, um, 50 equity lending, um, or, you know, even sort of more.

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

Um, but so it really depends what sort of a, um, um, debt ratio we able to sort of get into 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

And this is, this is a business that we don't have right now.

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

This is what we planning to do.

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 just to sort of,

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

But basically, just to sort of say, so currently these companies, these housing companies, they are connected to the district heating network.

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 spend 20 to 30,000 euros a year to heat that house or more, depending on the area where they are.

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

um i mean okay this is probably sort of a low end of that but i mean this is this is sort of um the ground heat projects are actually much more profitable than the district heating projects so this is exactly sort of um the angle that we're coming with

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 right.

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 right.

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 basically the service agreement that they make is that they guarantee or they basically sort of agree to buy the heat for the X amount of years that we make the contract with them, which is typically then seven to eight 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

Too early to say, to be quite honest.

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

I mean, I just want to emphasize this is not the business that we are in right now.

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

I know, but you're getting into it.

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

I'm sorry?

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 the um um my previous company um we were in the uh cleantech venture capital so um so we've been investing the tech companies so the i know from um not ground heat projects but sort of um you know sort of more sort of um future technologies but from there i know from um 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

very sort of personal experience, how difficult it is to raise capital for these small size asset financing.

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

I mean, this is a very challenging area.

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 meaning that it's an underserved market.

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 because if you look at sort of project finance in general, this is, you know, it's focusing on much bigger projects.