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🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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LMS365 raised $20m in 2023 at a $100m valuation - a 5x multiple on $20m of ARR. As of April 2024, they do $30m in ARR. Their 200 person team is focused on building software for the Microsoft ecosystem. Can they hit $40m ARR this year?
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0:44.3 | Guys, LMS 365 launched in 2003 as a side project by dentists at a local library. They finally said, well, this can be SaaS. |
0:46.3 | In 2016, they broke a million revenue in 2018. |
0:49.3 | Today, over 30 million bucks in terms of run rate up from called 18 million a year ago. |
0:53.3 | So call it 50% year-over-year |
0:54.6 | growth. They're serving 2,000 paying customers. They help those customers be more productive |
0:58.5 | in the Microsoft ecosystem. Those customers have over 2 million seats on the platform. As |
1:03.0 | Rasmus continues to scale, he joined the company as CEO two years ago, did a 20 million |
1:07.0 | Series A at a 5 to 6x multiple. He's now growing here with the team of 216 engineers |
1:12.6 | and 14 sales hubs attacking each geography. We'll see what they do next. |
1:17.6 | Hey folks, my guest today is Erasmus Holtz. He is the chief executive's officer at LMS 365, |
1:23.6 | launched it a little over two years ago, based in Denmark. Before that, he was CRO at a group called Wire for over four years. And before that, CEO at a group called Hodel. We'll jump into LMS today. Rasmus, you ready to take us to the top? Absolutely. Good. You want to have me. I'm ready. I'm excited to have you. You know, it's so hard to get employee performance management right. You have all these sort of personality tests and you have people to try and build software |
1:48.2 | for it. |
1:48.5 | How do you fit into this space? |
1:51.2 | We historically come out of a learning background. |
1:54.3 | So this means that actually for longer than I've been here, we've been building a learning |
1:58.7 | management platform, built into Microsoft Teams, |
2:01.9 | because we believe that learning should be |
2:03.3 | where you actually meet where you are at every day. |
2:06.8 | But then as we kind of grow with that ambition, |
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