Boltcode revenue, CEO Manodnya K H, team size, customer count, churn, and more in 2023.

University student building bolt code to help teams recruit Engineers faster she wants to play a big part in the talent management space she's put in 800 of her own money and got 30 000 bucks from her parents who are going to ask for a big chunk of equity we'll see where that goes but they've got 10 or 11 folks on the platform today Great Courses we'll see where it goes next bolt code dot IO hey folks my guest today is minonya KH she's a 20 year old computer science student and co-founder of Bolt code a human Capital Management startup with expertise in NLP research and software engineering she plays a critical role in creating and launching effective HCM Solutions her background in NLP research combined with our software engineering skills has enabled her bootstrap bulk code and drive to development of innovative products or passion for entrepreneurship and our technical expertise maker available assets to this space manonia are you ready to take us to the top hmm are you ready to start you ready to take us to the top yes I'm ready to start all right so what is Bolt code tell us about a customer that's paying you or using you and how they use you uh so the thing is there are a lot of core HR firms right we have Oracle we have work day we have bambooyage we have Workforce now but then you know we believe that Employee Engagement is just more than code HR so there are a lot of peripheral activities like say job distribution for hiring and then the sourcing of employees plagiarism detection and code when we have pre-employment assessments and all of that Employee Engagement is basically broken and we recognize that because too many tools and all of these tools are over stuffed with features and they're not well integrated so what we want to do is we want to get all of this together as a lien and a clean tools so that small organizations of say 50 to 200 members can use our solution right now we don't really have paying customers we are having a pilot beta you know close beta of around 80 to 150 candidates and we wish to launch full-fledged in the next two quarters and so how have you built this day have you spent any of your own money building the MVP or have you built it all yourself um the MVP was bootstrapped by us and um yeah basically I have a full-time job that helps pay for my interns so have you put have you invested any of your own money in the startup or no just your time um a lot of my own money has gone in let's say to the tune of round uh seven eight hundred dollars in the last six months itself okay does that make you nervous it does kind of make me nervous because there's around 30k of my own money in the line right now and yes you said there's thirty thousand dollars of your own money in the business right now um that is what we have been planning to commit but then funding external funding would be sweet okay got it but you've saved up thirty thousand of your own money and you're willing to spend that to get this new business to Market yes that's a lot of money for a 20 year old where did how did you save up thirty thousand dollars you must be a great saver um let's just say that I have generous parents and my full-time job helped me pay for it so okay so so how much of the 30 000 came from your parents um let me put it as around 80 85 percent of it okay and do you give them Equity do they ask for equity yeah that is equity in the pipeline but did they ask for I mean you know someone listening right now I was gonna go oh she just got money from her parents you know most people if they get money from someone they've got to get that give that person Equity did you give your parents equity yes I am looking at giving them around 60 of equity oh six zero six zero because you know I haven't really put in my money it's just my time which has been going in so that's a lot though that's 60 it's a lot of a lot of equity what if you build this into a 10 million dollar company they're gonna own six million of it um let's look you cut out what'd you say but then Equity is not finalized yet so we're still looking at it oh what's going on there YouTube good to see you guys now imagine this you love watching these interviews with SAS Founders but imagine if we took all of the valuation data out from over 2807 interviews I've done manually saves you a lot of time well we've done this we've built the into the beautiful interface inside of founder path check this out I'll show you how you can access this in a second but you log in you connect your stripe account you see your valuation real time you can see what it changed over the past 88 days and even set goals for evaluation this year now the secret valuation is there's many different ways to value a SAS business so the reason you're going to see three or four different evaluations inside of your founder path dashboard this is all free by the way is because depending on who's doing the buying of your SAS company you're going to get a different valuation a 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like the pre-wetting and pre-screening during hiring so we now have this platform for coding assessments and we have one product which is very close to my heart so we have this interview bot I love to call it Scout and uh that is supposed to conduct technical assessments without really having a human interviewer so that would be saving like lots of manners and lots of dollars in money for like small and medium-sized companies and that also removes the hiring bias so if it does work then we are looking at Revenue which is to the tune of round of 100 200k dollars a year but what about all these testimonials you have on your website um smart on jawakar at co-create you've got PES University you've got Jen pact and Raju you've got Jeff at PES University these are all folks who are using it are they not paying uh right now they aren't really paying they just um signed up for some of our free courses right now and how many people have signed up for your free courses um around 15 to 20 people right now like I said we're looking for a full-fledged launch in the next one or two quarters so and so how did but you know you gotta you know got your first sign up how did you get your first 10 signups for the free courses by the way the website's beautiful I would never guess your pre-revenue but you've got courses on the fundamental of agile scrum software testing and quality engineering who builds these courses and how do you make sure people find them uh actually most of those courses were built by me and my co-founder found them they were found by through mostly live out right now and we have our LinkedIn page so that's how people found it and is your idea that if someone's looking to hire an engineer they'll pay bolt code to to give these courses give access to these courses to the recruits and the recruits have to go through the course oh yes So the plan is we would want to go for a B2 C to B where we would be selling these courses to you know have corporate sales because we believe that learning and upskilling is an important part of the employee engagement Journey so have a B to C to B and sell these courses probably looking at metered courses right now we are having around 20 to 25 trainers in the pipeline and we would be onboarding them very soon in the next two to three months okay so but...