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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Entrepeneur and founder of Servoy. Engineering background with experience in building great software companies.

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0:00.0

2001, Servoy founded again by Jan here. Now the team is 100 people. Again, ushering in really

0:05.0

platform as a service, probably actually a little early to market. Now they're really hitting

0:08.9

their stride with over 30 million bucks. And AR on just a million raised. I love the efficiency

0:13.5

there. Over a thousand customers today growing 30% year over year, less than 3% revenue turn annually

0:19.5

and net revenue retention north of 100%.

0:22.2

The economics are also healthy. One dollar in in terms of KAC gets you a dollar of new ACV,

0:27.6

so their payback period less than 12 months. Again, 100 people based in remote locations as they

0:31.7

look to scale and potentially raise middle of 2019. Hello everyone. My guest today is Jan Elman. He's an entrepreneur and the founder

0:39.8

of Servoy. He's got an engineering background with experience in building great software

0:43.7

companies. He's now competing in the low code platform as a service space. Jan, are you ready to

0:48.5

take us to the top? Yes, I am. All right. Let's talk about Servoy. What's the company doing? How do you

0:53.6

make money? So I started Servoy. What's the company doing? How do you make money?

0:56.0

So I started Servoy 17 years ago based on the fact that I saw that developing business

1:01.4

applications was way too difficult and taking way too much time.

1:05.9

And so what we're doing today, we created a platform that makes it three to five times quicker create business

1:13.0

applications both for internal corporate users and for ISVs, so independent software vendors

1:18.4

that create standard off-the-shelf software.

1:20.6

Okay.

1:21.6

And you're a platform as a service, usually platform as a service you build, you know, by some

1:25.5

degree of kind of data usage or utility.

1:28.7

Is it kind of recurring revenue?

1:34.0

Yes. I would say 80% of our revenue today is recurring.

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