SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

They Shut Down $3m Agency to Launch API SaaS tool, Hit 200 Customers

18 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Treblle helps developers with APIs

Folderly Email Deliverability SaaS Hits $1.56m ARR In Under 9 Months, Bootstrapped

17 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Email Deliverability Platform

API Integration Tool Hit $1k in MRR, Raised $150k on $1.4m Valuation

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

API integration platform and B2B software marketplace (3 min video demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBySL5eK0PE&feature=emb_logo )

Husband Wife Team Taking on Drizzly, Hit $1.5m Run Rate, Ecomm for Alcohol

15 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ecomm for Alcohol Companies

ChiliPiper Meeting Tool Hits $12m Run Rate, Approaching Unicorn Status

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Automate lead qualification, routing & scheduling

Linkedin Automation Tool Bootstrapped to $25k/mo From Parents Basement, Big Profits

13 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

LinkedIn automation tool for sales teams

Sales Automation SaaS Hits $480k ARR After Spinning Out of $1m Agency. Raising $150k on $5m Now

12 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sales Automation

How Funnel-Builder SaaS Convertri Used Affiliates to Hit $1.5m in ARR Without Raising Capital

11 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Fastest Funnel Builder

Board Meeting Software Breaks $24m ARR With Just $5m Raised, New $100m Last Month

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Board Meeting Platform

HealthTech SaaS Bootstrapped to $600k ARR, 1200 Customers and 500,000 Patients

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Practice Management Software for Healthcare Professionals

DevOps SaaS Data Tool Breaks $4.9m ARR Bootstrapped Using Its Marketplace To Grow

08 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Help companies utilize data to grow profit

FlowChat Goes From $0 to $40k MRR in 4 Months Using 1 Tactic

07 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Build lead lists, book calls

Was Selling Majority to Vista The Right Move? Gainsight Customer Success Platform Hits $100m ARR, 1,000 Customers

06 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Customer Success Software

He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

05 Sep 2021

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He Exited his CRM, Now Car Software Hits $40m Run Rate

MessageDesk Hits $15k MRR, Targets $2m Seed Early 2022

04 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Business Text Messaging Platform

SalesPanda Founder Wouldn't Sell for $1m, Has $400k in ARR, 80% yoy growth

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

SalesPanda is a SAAS based PARTNER RELATIONSHIP MGT (PRM) software

Claap Is a More Feature Rich Loom for Product Managers, $3m Raised on $17.5m Post Money Valuation

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Asynchronous meetings

Local Marketing SaaS 2x Last 4 Months, Breaks $3m ARR and 1200 Customers

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Marketing automation for wellness businesses

Estated Grows 100%, Breaks $1.7m ARR for Property Data Platform

31 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Property intelligence

CPG User Research SaaS Suzy Hits $40m ARR, Flirts with $500m Valuation, IPO Next?

30 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Enterprise market research software

Webboss Raised $500k on $1m Vlauation in 2015. Where are they now?

29 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The only alternative to WordPress

HR SaaS Hits $500k ARR Helping Teams Give Rewards to Employees

28 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cloud-based employee recognition platform

Former Top Sales Rep Will Help You Hire First SDR at Your SaaS Company for $2,500/mo

27 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Build Sales Development Teams

Keap Acquired CustomerHub For $1-2m in 2011, Founders Bought Back in 2018, Now $500k in ARR

26 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Simple knowledge commerce platform

Team Collaboration Tool Hits 3 Pilots, $15k Each, Real MRR Growth next?

25 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Workforce collaboration & insights

400 Firms pay $1k/mo For This Investor Database, Growing 100% YoY Bootstrapped

24 Aug 2021

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Raise Money for investment firms

New Sales Enablement Tool, $1m to $3.5m in 2 Years, Now Raising $7m on $50m Valuation

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sales Enablement

Gusto Killed Their $3m Business, Pivoted to $7.8m ATS Business in HR Tech Space

22 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

HR Software and Services

No Code Agency Moves to SaaS, 1200 Customers, $2m+ ARR

21 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Low-Code Development Platform

Oil and Gas ESG SaaS Hits $1.2m ARR in 12 Months, $5m Raise Next?

20 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

ESG compliance-as-a-service

Retail SaaS Taking Off Post Pandemic, $1m+ ARR, Raising $8m Series A Now

19 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Michelle Bacharach is CEO and Co-Founder of FindMine, an award-winning content engine that uses machine learning to scale content curation for the wor...

Can This Data Company Win? $9k to $40k MRR in 6 Months Bootstrapped

18 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Like you, I am passionate about technology, making the world better and having fun doing it.

He's Beating Cancer While Building Fintech Health Tool, $1.6m ARR Bootstrapped

17 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Founder and CEO of CoverMe, healthtech SaaS company using AI to help people find paying sources for healthcare bills in a real time marketplace. Boots...

Reviews.io Breaks $10m ARR Bootstrapped, Growing 150% YoY

16 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An immense passion for technology, company culture and customer experience with business experience spanning 20+ years launching his first business at...

New NFT Tool Helps Artists Sell Work for $20/mo

15 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I use my background in TV, news, branding and technology to help creators earn without ads on the world's first NFT social network where we make every...

20 Year Old Sells $15k Lanyards, Now Ecomm Research Tool

14 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I'm a 20 year old degree apprentice, meaning I work full time as a software engineer and part-time completing university that is paid for. In my spare...

Brazilian Quote to Cash SaaS Hits $10k in MRR up from $2k, $250k raised at $2.5m Valuation

13 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Passionate computer scientist in the fintech space. Past HSBC, EBANX (soon to be listed), cofounder at PLIPAG.

0 to $20k MRR in 4 Days? How This SaaS Startup Did It.

12 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I'm the CEO of Sales for Life (a LaaS company), the pioneering Social Selling training program for mid-market and enterprise companies. Sales for Life...

$15k in MRR From $50k Raised Helping you Turn Blogs into Audio Content

11 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Administration graduate, shines at problem-solving and creativity applied to business and product development. Albert is co-founder and CEO at VOOOZER...

How He Built The Largest Rev Ops Community In The World (and $500k of revenue!)

10 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

15 year sales veteran that started revgenius at beginning of pandemic bringing it to 15,000 sales, marketing and revops pros in a years time.

BillBee Fastest Growing Bootstrapped Ecomm SaaS, $2m to $4.5m ARR in 7 Months

09 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

1st employee of Billbee in 2015, now Chief Revenue Officer and Managing Director / Co-CEO togethet with Founder Jan Krause.

He Plans to Beat Zapier, Has 6 Customers, But Will Stop if Can't Hit $5k MRR By Feb

08 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Born in Minsk, emigrated to Barcelona (Spain) pursuing a carrer in a global multinational. Last 7 years led the innovations unit and built super succe...

Egypt Based Seafood Marketplace Launches, Does 70 Orders, Makes 15% Commission

07 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ahmed Shalaby, founder of Ayooh infotech co. Operates Ayooh seafood ordering app launched January 2021 in Alexandria, Egypt. Mechanical engineering ba...

EstateSpace Grows 200% to $2.2m ARR Bootstrapped Helping You Track Your Physical Assets

06 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan B Fishbeck is the founder and CEO of EstateSpace, LLC, a technology platform that simplifies lifestyle management service and operations to m...

Ardius Finds $500m in Tax Credits for Startups, Exits to Gusto

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How HyperProspector Got First $4k in MRR

04 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I have launched HyperProspect in August 2020 when covid started and I got a lot of time to work on my things and from there. I went from $0 to $4k MRR...

$500k Consulting to $45m Prop Tech VC Fund

03 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kunal Lunawat is a co-founder and managing partner of Agya Ventures. Previously, he was an investor at Blackstone Real Estate and has advised several ...

vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Younas is the Founder and CEO of vFairs - the leading Virtual and Events Hybrid Platform in the world. Younas led the growth of the company from 2 peo...

Bootstrapped Founder Buys $1.4m Dream Home Funded by his Marketing SaaS Tool

01 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Aurelian Amacker is a French marketer whose success first started in 2010 after he started his own blog. He later wrote a book about his journey ""I E...

Groupfio Using Resellers to Break $1.3m Bootstrapped

31 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Legal Tech Merger Drives $1m in ARR, $5m+ Investment

30 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bill Bice is the CEO at nQ Zebraworks, which is tackling the challenges created by Work From Anywhere in legal organizations. Bill started his first s...

Course Creation Tool Doubles in 6 months to $7m ARR

29 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As CEO of Easygenerator Kasper is both the initiator and driver behind the Employee-generated learning trend. He has made an impact on the field of le...

Cleaning Marketplace Hits $1.2m ARR, Now Scaling with $35k Franchises

28 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How they built 300 person waitlist for new co-browsing SaaS tool

27 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

👋 I'm a product designer/manager hybrid who works with companies to take their digital products from good to great. 🔥 I'm on a mission to find w...

ZenOutreach lands first 2 customers, $2k in MRR, How she did it

26 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Previously co-founded a tech-based real estate service and led sales at an Amazon seller management company. I founded ZenOutreach in February 2021. Z...

How LearnWorlds Broke 4,500 Customers, $6m ARR Helping Course Creators Launch

25 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Panos Siozos is the co-founder and CEO of LearnWorlds – a Cyprus-based e-learning company that is transforming self-paced learning through hassle-fr...

QuickOrder Hits $6m Helping Restaurants Drive Loyalty. Next? Raising $20m on $100m Valuation.

24 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mads Wedderkopp is a young but experienced founder, he took Quickorder from 0 to 40 people, raised multiple funding rounds, and completed two acquisit...

How this DevOps Tool Plans to Break $1m in First 9 months

19 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gil Feig is the co-founder of Merge. Previously the Head of Engineering at Canvas, he's led projects at Wealthfront and LinkedIn. A graduate of the Co...

He'd Sell Keyword Research SaaS $750k ARR For $1.5m, $250k in Profits

18 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Petersen was #13 at a staffing industry startup that grew from $7M to $65M during his tenure and went public in 1996. The business is still operating ...

They Help Banks Underwrite Cannabis Founders, $500k ARR Now, $1m Soon?

17 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Justin Fischer is CEO and Co-Founder of RiskScout, a leading company helping financial institutions bank higher risk businesses such as Hemp, CBD, Can...

He couldn't have a baby, built software to solve the problem, now $500k ARR

16 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jake Diner is a former Big Ten Track and Field Champion, who graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Computer Science in 2001. He sp...

CPG Data SaaS Doubles to $1.6m ARR, Raising $3m on $18m Now

15 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pan has been managing projects and firms across various industries with a focus on eBusiness & Technology. Amongst his roles was Head of Business Plan...

Will Bizzabo Announce A Major Acquisition Next Month? (Flashback)

14 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Eran is the CEO & Co-Founder of Bizzabo, an all-in-one Event Success Platform and one of the fastest growing event tech companies in the world. He has...

PE Just Ate JazzHR, Here are their metrics 1 year ago

13 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Results oriented executive with a 25 year history of a strategic, metrics-driven approach to accelerated revenue. Focus on the global small business m...

My Favorite Bootstrapped SaaS Founder ($122k MRR)

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dmytro Okunyev is the founder and owner of Chanty, a team communication platform. Dmytro started toying with the idea of a chat app back in 2017, he r...

Why SaaS Founders Use Them as SDR's, First Sales Hire

11 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Founder of Fullfunnel.io  ( Full-Funnel B2B marketing for B2B Service-Based, Tech and SaaS companies) and ROIplan (marketing planning platform).  I...

ScholarshipOwl Breaks $4m Revenue Helping 15k Students Get Loans

10 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An engineer from a young age, previously CTO/R&D manager in a number of Israeli startups, ex-Googler turned entrepreneur and CEO, changing the US educ...

Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal?

09 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

"Dennis Mortensen is the CEO and co-founder of x.ai. Dennis is an expert in leveraging data to solve enterprise use cases and a serial entrepreneur wh...

Today G2 Is Worth $1b. What happened 24 months ago?

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Entrepreneur delivering success to B2B tech buyers and vendors via G2.com marketplace...and supporting ThreeKit in building the world's most amazing 3...

Shiphero Raised $50m last week, inside their metrics

07 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Founder and CEO of ShipHero. Previously founder and CEO of an online retailer of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu apparel that I founded in 1999 at age 19 and ran ...

ConvertKit Raising at $196m Valuation?

06 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Will Gong Break $10b Valuation by October?

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Amit Bendov is the CEO and founder of Gong.io. He brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in hyper-growth enterprise software startups. Bef...

How Knowledge Hacking App Raised $20m Pre Product at $100m Valuation

04 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick Walker is the co-founder of Uptime, an app that presents expertly curated five-minute Knowledge Hacks of the world's best books, courses and d...

BetterAgency CRM for Insurance Hits $1m ARR, Raises $2m on $15m Valuation

03 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I am the Co-Founder of Better Agency, the first Sales-Driven AMS and the industry's top CRM for Independent Insurance Agencies. We are on a mission to...

Indie Riches: He Makes More Now Than The $100k Job That Laid Him Off in 2019

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Cam Sloan is a Canadian entrepreneur who worked as a full-stack developer until he was laid off in 2019. Instead of finding a new job, he started free...

Brazil Customer Success SaaS hits $25k MRR, $3m Valuation

30 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Leonardo is an expert in customer relationship management who worked in small and large companies through his career. In 2017, decided to change the s...

What Happened: Only $7k in Bank, Now $4.5m ARR, 100% YoY Growth

29 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Husband Wife Team Goes From Almost Dead to 100 Customers

28 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

12 years into my programming career, I finally landed my dream tech job. Great team, great salary, great projects. But after 3 months, I started feeli...

ProjectCor Hits $1m ARR, Raises at $40m Valuation for Profit Tracking Tool for Agency's

27 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Santiago Bibiloni (born in Buenos Aires., October 20, 1989) is a Silicon Valley based technology entrepreneur and co-founder & CEO at COR, the next-ge...

HockeyStack Hits First $800 in MRR in 2 Months

26 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I'm an 18-year-old, who is passionate about making things people need and use. I have tried a lot of things varying from personalized book boxes to a ...

Freightos Grows GMV 800%, Exits COVID Stronger Than Ever

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Why RambleChat Sold to Terminus Last Year at 10x Valuation Multiple

24 Jun 2021

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Windsor Breaks $55k MRR, Turns Down VC, Loves Bootstrapped

23 Jun 2021

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Slintel Breaks $6m ARR, $20m Raise on $100m Valuation Ready to Take on B2B Intelligence Space

22 Jun 2021

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Founder and CEO of Slintel. Hired Anupreet Singh Lamba early on who is currently leading Sales at Slintel, a SaaS Sales Intelligence platform. He has ...

This Bootstrapped Startup Makes Crazy High $4.5m in Revenue Per Engineer

21 Jun 2021

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Founder Dux-Soup

They Raised $300k on $1m after B2B SaaS Pivot for Job Applicants to Record Videos Easier

20 Jun 2021

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Mike Beck has a background in financial trading and selling complex software before setting up Reliving, a B2C software company focused on helping peo...

$3m in Revenue and $227m Market Cap? How is Resonant thinking about Software?

19 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mr. Holmes joined Resonant in 2016 as CEO. Prior to joining Resonant, Mr. Holmes served as Chief Commercial Officer for Tigo Energy, where he was resp...

DropBox Competitor Bootstraps to $9m Revenue in Austin Texas

18 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Madhan drives CodeLathe's overall strategy and execution. Over the last 15 years, prior to founding CodeLathe, Madhan has worked on diverse systems an...

How He Hit $10k With Side Project

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Software engineer, indie hacker, and former college soccer player living in Chicago.

Ingo Breaks $100k/mo Helping Major Media Brands Get More Conference Attendees

16 Jun 2021

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Michael Barnett's extensive experience in community growth led him to found InGo which empowers communities to grow by connecting current and potentia...

Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?

15 Jun 2021

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Designer since 1998, university lecturer and author.

Gong Competitor: "We'll Raise at a $120m Valuation" after breaking $6m in ARR

14 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sindre Haaland was born and raised in Norway but lives with his beautiful wife, son, daughter, and Maltipoo-dog in Brooklyn, New York. Founder & CEO o...

Can Law Pockets Help Solve Racial Injustice By Empowering Atlanta Residents?

13 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We make the law easier not harder.

DeckRobot Breaks $1m Revenue Helping You Create Slide Decks Faster

12 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

ex-McKinsey who turned into a serial entrepreneur

How to Use Twitter to get first 200 Users for Your SaaS product

11 Jun 2021

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I am Dominik and recently founded a company together with my friend Anki where we're working on our own products and help other companies with our pro...

Quit $200k Job for $4k MRR Side Project, Can he Hit $100k by December?

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A software engineer turns to be a bootstrapper, from building side hustles, to quitting my full-time job, to making Testimonial full-time.

Prediction: Freshbworks IPO Coming Next Month? Founders Thinking in 2018

09 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

My name is Girish Mathrubootham and I am the Founder and CEO of Freshworks (previously known as Freshdesk). I am 36 years old, married and live with m...

Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch

08 Jun 2021

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Shahed Khan is the Founder of Loom. He previously worked as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at NFX, a venture capital firm focused on investing in networ...

He Spent $300k Buying SaaS Companies, Sold them For $2m

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Former Fortune 500 growth consultant turned digital entrepreneur. Currently runs a product studio that builds, grows and sells profitable internet com...

Build a Website On Notion? Founder Gets first 70 Customers at $10/mo!

06 Jun 2021

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Noah started is entrepreneur journey creating multiple projects in college. After college He started his first real startup CoffeePass with his roomma...