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Vlad Jelptenko

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
126 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

I just know that our team is in the north.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

We have live calls, but I heard the names of the cities several times, but they never stuck in my memory.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

We raised another round and we actually did the closure just a couple of months ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

We raised a late seed round, let's call it at 750.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

Basically, this would be the money to help extend our runway until Series A that we plan to raise in the US next year.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

Because you know what is better than me?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

You don't raise Series A until you've got at least 1.5 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

And we are very close to that $1 million, but we still need probably at least 8 to 10 months to get as close to $2 million as possible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

We raised at post money would be $9 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

Uh, that felt fair to us, given the industry, the situation we're in, the support we get from VCs existing and the new ones and how fast they were moving with the deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

We're still burning capital today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

And actually, we realized that if we want to hire developers aggressively, we will not be able to build product as fast as we need because the market is evolving.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

And as we get bigger customers, we're going up market, we get more complex demands.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

And so we were not managing to get where we need with the small team we had in terms of development.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

So we actually tripled our development team in size over the last six months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

And so our burn rate actually increased despite the growing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

Or what's your burn rate today?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

No, we're burning like $60,000 per month right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How he Negotiated $9m valuation with $1m ARR sales attribution SaaS tool

So that's why we got the runway.