SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1480 Social Listening Tool Raising $6m on $22M Pre Money (10x Valuation)
13 Aug 2019
Chapter 1: What is the background of Camille Bargel and SentiOne?
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Founded back a couple of years ago, a call at 2011. Now 65 people doing about 157 grand per month in revenue. They've raised $5 million. They've got 450 customers paying for their tool, which essentially allows you to be more effective on social, social listening, customer engagement platform.
They're currently raising caught between six and 7 million, hopefully on a $22 million pre-money valuation. Looking maybe at using a European investment bank for some venture debt at great interest. They're growing about 30 to 40% year over year. So Good growth there. Not crazy growth, but good growth. $2,000 CAC, eight-month payback period. Obviously, both averages.
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We went from a couple of hundred thousand dollars to 2.7 million.
I had no money when I started the company.
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Chapter 2: How does SentiOne's social listening tool work?
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First off, I don't know that I'd ever tweet that. But if someone did, would that you could process that?
You probably couldn't do that via Twitter, but you can do it via messenger of that bank. Or you can go to their mobile app or website and use that included or embedded chat. You can do it via their chat where you can authenticate.
Do you own that chat or you're tying into the API of the firms you sell to?
Well, it's both. We can do both.
So you own, you have a chat product yourself. They install it with JavaScript or something? We have a chat product. Interesting. Churns critical in a SaaS company. What's your revenue churn per year?
So the revenue churn is quite good, I think. Last year it was 4.5%. This year it's less than 4%. It would be 3.5%. It's like a 12-month average churn.
So just to be clear, that's 3.5% churned over a year or each month? Over a year. Okay, so 3.5.
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Chapter 3: What is the average revenue per customer for SentiOne?
I mean, each month on average from the last year, it will be 3.5%.
Sure, sure, sure. Yeah, so 3.5 annual revenue churn. And is that a gross number or a net number? Are you adding back expansion? It's net.
We are adding, actually we are adding expansions, but it's new MRR minus downgrades and the lost MRR plus expansion.
Yeah, so just to be clear, give me the actual gross number. Just how much revenue do you lose? It's obviously higher than 3.5%.
Yeah. So probably that would be, uh, let me count it. And I had five to 6%.
Okay. So five to 6% gross, which means you're expanding two to 3% of the same accounts. And that's how you get net net 3.5. Yeah. Okay, good. And then talk to me about customer acquisition. How are you, how are you signing up these new customers?
So we have the, of course, inbound and outbound sales. The outbound sales team works with big accounts and enterprise customers. The outbound sales is located in a couple of remote locations in Europe. We are starting with UK this year as well. It's less that we just are scheduling the meetings, doing the stuff like that.
But in the inbound scenario, we are doing a lot of online activities, SEO, influencers, some remarketing and stuff like that. And we have a team located in Poland, which is delivering online demos to all people that sign up for our trial.
Got it. And what's your breakdown?
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Chapter 4: What funding has SentiOne raised and what are their future plans?
Those guys are pushing about 100 million bucks in ARR, so they're growing quickly. Number four, how many hours of sleep do you get every night?
uh i sleep like quite quite healthy it's seven seven hours per day and what's your situation married single kiddos married with two kids two kids very good and how old are you uh me it's 32 30 32 okay camille last question what do you wish your 20 year old self knew uh i wish actually i'm happy that i didn't know a lot of things that i know today because i wouldn't probably start a business in the first place
Just give me something that you wish you knew back then, a lesson you learned, something like that.
The lesson I learned is that you have to be patient in many things. And as a young person, you're not. So I would love to know that in many cases, you need to be patient to see the result.
Guys, there you have it. Camille sent to one founded back a couple of years ago, a call at 2011. Now 65 people doing about 157 grand projects.
per month in revenue they've raised five million dollars uh they've got 450 customers paying for their tool which essentially allows you to be more effective on social social listening customer engagement platform they're currently raising caught between six and seven million hopefully on a 22 million dollar pre-money valuation looking maybe at using a european investment bank for some venture debt at great interest they're growing about 30 to 40 percent year over year so uh good growth there not crazy growth but good growth two thousand dollar cac eight month payback period obviously both averages camille thanks for taking
taking us to the top.
Thanks a lot, Nathan.
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