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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?

And at that time, a lot of people in our range would go for, you know, would have converted it or would have done something like a $12 million or $14 million post-money valuation as opposed to $10.

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

So we believe that we are actually, relative to what we would have gotten at that time, we're actually on the lower side.

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

So I don't feel too worried about the valuation creep, as people call it.

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

Had we done it at 15 or 14, then that would worry me, especially when we go in for the Series A. The Series A investors would be more worried.

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

But, you know, the preliminary feelers that we put out for Series A, which we are not ready for yet, we'll be ready for it later this year.

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

But when the preliminary feelers that we put outโ€” Oh, wait, real quick, Venkat.

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

Exactly.

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

Got it.

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

So the actual Series A, we do only later this year.

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

And what people are telling us, they're like, OK, your valuation is OK.

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

It's not too low.

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

It's not too big.

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

It seems to be around what people are seeing.

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

So I'm not too worried about it.

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

But then ask me in six months and I'll tell you what it is.

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

Yeah, so, you know, we were under stealth still till something like May of last year.

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

May of 2016.

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

Yep.

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

So for the first year that we're getting revenues from people, they were all beta customers.

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

based on the contacts that we had and the investors had and so on.