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Venkat Nagaswamy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
148 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

They were the original investors behind RSA, Hootsuite, Nutanix.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

These are some of the names that you might know.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

It was a convertible note round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

$2 million note was what we issued.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

What was the cap?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

$2 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

No, the cap was six.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

20% discount and I think 6% interest.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

So we did another round in mid last year, about a year ago, Xfinity Ventures from India, which is made by leaders from Infosys and Wipro.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

Those guys led the round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

It was a convert.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

It was a priced round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

And we converted everything at essentially 10 million post.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

We raised $2 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

Not necessarily.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

So in terms of, I mean, if you look at the valuation of what we raised, 10 million posts at 4 million rates, relatively speaking, it's not that big of a valuation jump based on where we are or even where we were.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

So there's a lot of, I mean, if you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
773: Can $1m MRR Company Grow Into $10m Post Money Valuation?

And by the way, the way we priced it was based on what we were seeing in the marketplace at that time.