1280 Will she be able to raise $1m on $3.5m Pre Money with This MRR?
SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nathan Latka
4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
CloudKPI is entrepreneur Maeve Kneafsey’s ( pron; May-V Kneef-Sea) fourth start up. Her latest venture addresses the frustrations involved in setting up and maintaining cross-business metrics for SaaS businesses, a segment growing to a multi-billion dollar value. CloudKPI, which is raising a seed round, has completed programs at Plug & Play Tech and Womens’ Start-Up Lab. Maeve previously founded Amas, Ireland’s first digital marketing and analytics agency (exit 2003), digital marketing agency Elucidate (exit 2015) and Fintech SaaS benchmarking solution MarketFinder.
A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin she now splits her time between offices in Dublin, Ireland and San Francisco, USA.
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| 0:00.0 | She sold multiple agencies. She's now going into SaaS Analytics where their company Cloud KPI launched just recently. |
| 0:05.9 | 2018 raised an early seed round at a $1.6 million valuation. Currently raising a million bucks |
| 0:10.4 | aiming for a $5 million pre-money valuation. She thinks it'll probably be $3.5 million, which is fine. |
| 0:15.1 | She's got three customers that are paying. They're doing about 10 grand per month in ARR. |
| 0:19.3 | This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got filthy rich or crash and burn. |
| 0:30.5 | Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider information that creates business news headlines. |
| 0:39.9 | We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to $2.7 million. |
| 0:43.1 | I had no money when I started the company. |
| 0:45.0 | It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs. |
| 0:48.4 | We're a bit strapped. |
| 0:49.4 | We have like 22,000 customers. |
| 0:53.3 | With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, |
| 0:57.5 | major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. |
| 1:02.5 | I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode. |
| 1:06.9 | Hello, everyone. |
| 1:07.4 | My guest today is Maven Nisi. |
| 1:09.8 | She is the founder, and I'm sorry, she's the |
| 1:11.6 | entrepreneur behind Cloud KPI, which is her fourth startup. Her latest venture addresses |
| 1:16.6 | the frustrations involved in setting up and maintaining cross business metrics for SaaS companies, |
| 1:21.2 | a segment growing to a multi-billion dollar market value. Cloud KPI, which is raising a seed round, |
| 1:26.1 | has completed programs at Plug and Play Tech and Women's Startup lab. She previously founded Amos, Ireland's first digital marketing |
| 1:31.8 | analytics agency, which exited in 2003, another one in 2015, and a FinTech SaaS benchmarking |
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