SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Raising $3m Right Now on Back of Slack App Exchange Growth
23 Feb 2021
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
One year back, we actually were lucky to get one or two marquee labels, brands, but working on a proof of concept. So that's where we were. We hardly had any revenues because we had completely stopped the innovation software, which was giving us some decent revenues, but not scaling.
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Chapter 2: What is the company iEngage.ai and what do they do?
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My guest today is Dilip Atara. He is the founder of a company called iEngage.ai. He's an entrepreneur building the company all under a brand called Akon Labs. The company is focused on helping you discover, organize, and reuse knowledge. Dilip, you ready to take us to the top? Yeah. All right. So tell us about the company. What do you guys do and what are you selling?
Thanks, Nathan, for having me here. Yeah, so ICON basically is based out of a city called Pune in India. And what we do primarily is iEngage, which is an API-based SaaS platform. The focus has been to address this challenge of how do we actually discover knowledge from very unstructured conversations, like the one we are having today.
If we were to record this or even stream it to iEngage, at the end of this, potentially, iEngage should be able to answer or give you insights in terms of what IconLabs does, iEngage does, and stuff like that.
How much are customers paying for this software per month on average?
The SaaS-based model, we have multiple years that we have.
What's the average?
The average would be a per month subscription would be about $80 a month.
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Chapter 3: How much do customers pay for iEngage.ai's software?
Do you like them? Are they doing a good job?
Yeah, yeah, they're doing a good job.
Very good. Dilip, I love this. Okay, so you've got a great team that you're building out. You've raised 500K. You're raising more currently. Churn's critical in a SaaS business. What's your churn today?
We currently have about, like I said, especially with the RF, we are yet to face, because it's not a paid subscription as yet, we are yet to face too much of a churn.
You have 100 paying customers, right?
That is correct. That is on the iEngage APIs. Not the RF subscription. I understand.
So on the API side then, what does churn look like?
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Chapter 4: When was iEngage.ai launched and how did they acquire their first customers?
You can measure that by increase or decrease usage.
Yeah, we have about 18 to 19%.
That's monthly churn or annual churn?
That's an annual churn.
Oh, got it. That's actually, I mean, that's not horrible. You just got to drive more usage.
Yeah, because most of them are using the APIs in custom apps or applications that they're building. So once the stickiness is very high, if we get them to use our SDKs inside their apps.
Philip, very good. Where can people learn more about you online? Where can people learn more about you?
What people? Sorry.
Where can people learn more about you?
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Chapter 5: What challenges did iEngage.ai face in scaling their business?
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