BRITech Globalrevenue, valuation & funding

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that missed the first episode tell us quick what does the company do we are in the investment management space so we we we are a sas company we serve the investment management uh ecosystem and they serve the the investors so give me you i mean tell me the story of how a customer that's paying you right now how are they paying you and how do they use you yes our acv is still the the basically the same we are talking about three thousand dollars a month um so our acv is uh very stable and how many customers are you serving now we are we have like 250 customers that's up from 150 uh which is great from about what that would have been almost a year and a half ago so nice growth where is that most that growth come from where are you finding customers oh we have some news from that time at that time we were having customers in brazil mexico and chile now we have customers in eight countries uh last year we started our expansion to to the uh to europe and the u.s markets now when you came on back in 2018 you said that in q1 of 2019 you were going to close up i think you told me a six million dollar raise at a 6x pre-money valuation did that deal happen no because we we uh stopped at that uh that raising process what happened is that we changed our expansion model we created a uh what we we call a distribution franchise model so basically we now have like five franchisees around the world and they are uh allowing us to expand globally without a lot of money from our side so at that time we were raising money to to grow the sales and marketing team and now uh that uh growth is coming from the channels from the franchisees uh that we are uh uh attracting uh around the world and yuri with this model which is new since the last time we spoke what have you been able to grow revenue to today so our revenue like is like nine million dollars if if we keep the same uh currency exchange rate that we use at that time because i don't know if you are following a brazilian exchange rate uh from that time it's like uh almost a 50 percent uh devaluation uh you know in the currency yeah so 250 customers paying three thousand dollars uh an on average per month usd puts you at about 750 000 a month in revenue again usd or about a 9 million dollar run rate uh not thinking about currency exchange issues which for you is a real thing i mean that is a real deal you have to worry about yeah yeah yeah it's it's good and but but again because we are uh uh now we have customers in three different uh currencies we have customers in brazilian realize of course most part of them are out of the 250 2 and 20 are in brazil for the most part still in buzz in brazil yet in brazil but but we have customers in europe and the u.s so we have uh like 90 percent of our clients paying re-eyes and 10 paying euros or dollars us dollars i see and what is so so when you last came on you said you raised about four million dollars total have you raised any additional capital no okay are you raising right now no okay and what's what you look like today how many people we still have the the 20 people uh so basically the interesting this uh channel uh model that we created is that uh it's a win-win partnership and uh the the the channels they are making money and uh we are attracting more channels uh over the years so like i told you we have five channels at this moment brazil rest of latin america us and europe and we expect to by the end of this year we expect to have like two or three more channels so we are expecting to to grow uh three more countries per year in the years to come how many engineers are on the team uh most part of the the the company the 20 uh people are engineers so basically uh 15 16 17 like uh 15 okay and how many quota carrying sales reps uh so again the the sales reps they are in the franchisees okay so you have no quota carrying sales reps on your team we have people that manages the channel so we have someone that do the onboarding process when a new on a new channel comes in we have another guy that looks uh uh it's our we call him our global growth officer and he manages the channels and we have uh staff uh helping these guys to to manage the channels so i would say like 15 guys uh as software engineers and five guys to manage the channels okay so so talk to me about one of these channels can you name one of them that's doing well for you yes so the brazilian uh was a turn into a channel so we have a distribution channel in brazil we have another distribution channel uh taking care of the rest of latin america these guys are based in peru and they are managing clients in mexico chile peru and colombia we have another channel can you keep sorry can you name can you name like what's that website what's that company name uh they use our our our our brand that's the interesting that's why we call a franchisee so they they they sell they implement and they support the clients in their geography in their geography and they use our brand to to uh uh in the front uh to so the other quotations to the clients or the proposals they are all uh protect proposals of course the contract the contract with with the clients it's always a brit tech in brazil and the client wherever the client is but these guys they are uh you know supporting our growth and our uh and our customer success as well when you last came on you said gross revenue churn was about one percent what's it at today today is like five percent per year okay and what's expansion revenue especially like our net retention rate is like 125. okay so you have 30 expansion five percent churn for a total of 125 net revenue retention yes that's pretty good now are you still spending about twenty one thousand dollars to get a new three thousand dollar a month customer yeah of course that cost is in the channel but the channel is keeps uh the the payback for the channel is still uh like six to seven months uh payback so what what is that economic model with the value-added resellers you give them 30 40 50 of the sale on perpetuity or what uh uh like uh 24 percent okay and so if a channel signs up a new 3 000 a month customer uh and that customer pays that for 10 years do you pay 24 every single month to the reseller yeah exactly okay uh if that 3 000 a month customer that the va that the valued reseller signs up pays for the full 36 000 yearly contract up front do you pay them 24 of that immediately we don't like uh pro payments so we really try to make uh monthly payments okay well and why is that most people like upfront payments because it pulls cash forward because we already profitable so we don't need the upfront payments uh and that's it how how how profitable are you like uh 20 ebitda margin okay got it so on 750 000 per month your ticket talking about 15 000 a month oh sorry hundred fifty thousand dollars a month added to your bank account every month yeah what do you do with that money did you just let it sit there and pile up or what so we are using that money to to to expand to attract more channels so of course this this uh this is a a cost for us to to to expand but after we uh find a new uh channel in a specific area uh uh we have the cost to to find these guys we have the cost to train then we have the cost to uh to onboard these guys so uh we are using part of the the the the cash generation to expand in more channels very good all right yuri let's wrap up here with the famous five number one what's your favorite business book i i like to nowadays i i have another famous business book which is the book from simon sinek which is the infinite game number two is there a ceo you're following or studying i really think that uh the the ceo from microsoft this guy is really doing a great job number three how many uh sorry what's your favorite online tool for building your company we use a a a group of of of of technology and so we use hubspot we use a zendesk we also are using nowadays churn zero for customer success management and microsoft planner microsoft things this is most uh most important tools we are using uh in a day day to day number uh four how many hours of sleep are you getting every night uh six seven hours per night and what's your situation married single kids married three kids wow how are you 56 56 uh and last question what do you wish your 20 year old self knew again i would love to know more about sas 20 years ago guys there you have it uh protect global again making investment and wealth management decisions easier they're now doing about nine million dollars a year in terms of run rate they have five percent net revenue or sorry gross revenue churn annually with 25 sorry uh 125 net revenue retention about a seven month payback period but unique model here no quota carrying reps on their team mostly engineers 15 16 engineers they leverage a value-added reseller model where they incentivize resellers under their brand to sell their product uh and then they uh pay a kickback of about 24 to that value out added reseller as they look to scale they're profitable take in about twenty percent deeper to margins to the bottom line every single month in terms of cash flow four million dollars raised yuri thank you for taking us to the top thank you nathan good to see you again you guys know i fight like heck to get these data points for you from these ceos that rarely do these kinds of shows if you want more shows like this make sure you subscribe right now we're trying to get 10 000 youtube subscribers by the end of september here 2019 and it would mean the world to me if you clicked now to subscribe additionally i've got two more great interviews for you if you want more data points from the world's leading sas ceos click and watch one of them right now

Search in video hello everyone my guest today is yuri ferber he's a serial entrepreneur with a 20-year track record and was previously ceo and founder of a company called ymf a leading financial software company with 300 employees that was later sold to a big tech company today he's focused on bra tech down there in sao paulo yuri are you ready to take us to the top let's go nathan all right talk to me about britak what do you guys do and how do you make money okay so uh britak is a wealth tech we serve the investment management ecosystem basically we serve asset managers broker-dealers family offices wealth managers and our mission is to make investment management simpler and faster simpler and faster so i mean do we put you in the category of like wealthfront betterment robinhood uh we uh it's more like adapar okay i'm not familiar with adapar um yeah so we are not we are not uh uh we serve the the financial institutions and they serve the customers the the the investors oh i see so you're like b to b and then whoever you support they then are like a robin or a whale front they'll support the consumer exactly i see okay very good and are you a pure play sas company yes we are okay so without going down every kind of customer cohort give me a general sense what's the company paying for your platform per year per month uh it depends on because we have a platform so depending on how much modules and how many portfolios the company the customer has he pays a different amount so it's a pay-per-use uh sas play uh but on average uh they are paying like three thousand uh dollars per month okay that's helpful to understand and put all this on a timeline for me when you launch a company we started the company in 2012 but we went to the market in 2014 so we spent two two years on the first product and was that you using money from your past sale kind of funding the company or how did you initially fund exactly that's it uh raise the money only in 2015. and how much race today uh we raised like um we raised like uh left maybe let me see in dollars uh four million dollars four million and before you raise that money your yi i'm curious how much of your own money did you put in like um yuri you cut out there about how much did you put in one million dollars one minute okay so someone called that a lot someone called that a little but it sounds like you had an exit and you're able to use some of that money to go into this one was it public your first company you sold it how much did you sell for uh we sold it for like um 25 million dollars okay were you the sole founder yes i'm the i was the founder and i and i and we sold it in 2009. oh that's great that's very good um and it was also a financial play yes yes it's a it was different but in the financial market we were serving the custodians at that time oh interesting okay good all right so launch this company again protect in 2012 you build for two years you go to market in 2014 how many customers do you have now today we now have a 150 customers in brazil mexico and chile interesting why those three geographies so specifically in terms of financial market these are the the brazil is the is the bigger the biggest market but mexico and chile they have also good financial market customers for us okay so if i take 150 customers times that 3 000 price point you gave me that would put you guys what about 450 grand a month right now on revenue yeah exactly and what's growth look like where were you at a year ago we are we are basically doubling every year our arr okay that's pretty good so caught 225 000 about a year ago now 450. yuri where's most that growth coming from expansion revenue or new customers uh no basically new customers but we also have upsell because as i said uh we have a modular platform so we are always trying to sell more modules to the to the base yeah but most part of the the growth is coming from new customers yep and when you look at the cohort that signed up a year ago typically how much are you able to expand them in year two like 110 percent 130 percent uh yeah our our our gross dollar churn is very low so like how low less than one percent oh wow yeah wow that's very low and what's your expansion uh so basically uh like a 90 percent plus 10 percent upsell tell me what you mean you retain 90 no we retain 99 yeah but but uh the uh from from the the the expansion ninety percent is is uh for new customers and ten percent from uh from the old customers oh i see so if we ignore new customers for a second if we just do cohort analysis from a year ago you'll lose one percent revenue you'll expand 10 so net revenue retention is 109. yeah that's pretty healthy now do you employ like a sales team to drive expansion revenue what's your team look like today we we have uh uh uh uh uh resellers in brazil in mexico and chile and in brazil which is the the biggest team we have like uh for in terms of hunters and and and inbound marketing we have a site like six guys six people and what's just your total full-time employees how many folks uh like 20 guys okay 20 and are they all remote as well no no basically most of them of course there's a part uh one guy in mexico another in chile but uh uh most part of the guys are in sao paulo sao paulo very good um and walking and of course from sao paulo we serve the entire country that's pretty good that's a lot i was telling you before the thing there's a lot happening in sao paulo a lot of technology now have you figured out how to handle like boletos and paper payments and things like that uh we are we are trying to to do something like that but for another uh different uh segment not the the the not the brokers and or not the asset managers but for for another kind of uh financial advisor yeah we are still it's still on on a paper plane so so which i'm curious being in brazil what billing system do you use uh basically we send uh like uh we the the guys pay us uh using a transfers wire transfer oh so you don't use you don't use like stripe or any kind of billing system it's just manual invoices yes yes because we talk about 150 customers it's not so much but so we can do it our erp can support and sending voice automatically every month which erp do you use we use a local erp called um called omi omi and it's a good erp for uh sas companies like us uh talk to me about customer acquisition cost yuri what's it paying what are you paying to acquire a new customer fully weighted uh we pay like uh 16 uh uh uh uh like like six times so the payback is uh comes in between six and seven months so you just have to do the math so yeah so seven times three thousand per month you'll spend 21 grand to acquire a customer yeah yeah basically that and where do you spend that is it on your sales team or direct advertising where you spend it uh basically uh a sales team and uh uh like 20 in marketing like google adwords and social networks and linkaging for example and the most of most of the partying in in sales team so so hunters so call it 80 sales team 20 you know direct spend yeah interesting um makes good sense that four million you raised you said was in 2015 um any plans to raise capital right now yes we are planning to to raise capital next year and we expect to raise like six million dollars next year okay raising next week so raising six million caught q1 2019 and what valuation would you love to raise at i i'd like to not mention that number well maybe not maybe don't tell me like what your actual evaluation is but what is evaluation that would make you really happy if you could get it uh the same evaluation that we have uh in the first round so we are talking about uh six times six times er yep six times arr and again if you're doing 450 a month right now that would put you at about a 32 million dollar pre-money valuation that's great so so six into that what that means you're selling what five to ten percent of the company ideally something like that yeah exactly would you ever do venture debt are there venture debt firms in brazil not in brazil it's it's very expensive in brazil do you venture that how like you're talking like 14 15 interest much more than that really it's like it's like a 30 to 25 percent yuri that's so it's impossible that's we're in the wrong business yeah yes i think they are interesting okay good uh that's that's helpful to understand and where will you spend that money uh we are planning to do some acquisitions and uh and the part of the money also to expand our our our sales team because we we we are planning to keep these uh pace of growing for the next three to five years so uh keep the the the the business growing 100 every year we have to expand uh uh our our marketing and sales team yeah so if you i mean you're pretty close to hitting a six million dollar run rate this year then you want to double to 12 and 24 and keep going from there yeah that's it that's very good yuri let's uh let's wrap up here with the famous five number one what's your favorite business book um i love i love a lot of business books but i love this uh this book from john d john doerr which is a measure what matters good one number two is there is there under the radar ceo that you're following in sao paulo under the radar no but uh i i i like the the the ceo from netflix uh reid hastings and uh i think he is doing great great job there in netflix number three what is your favorite online tool online tool uh i have some some to grow the business i i i like i love we use a lot of online online tools like hubspot pipe drive zendesk for the customers uh success team so those three they are great uh tools yeah number four how many hours of sleep to get every night um depends on six seven eight hours okay and what's your situation you're married single kids i'm married with uh three kids three kids wow you're a busy guy and how old are you i'm 55. 55. last question what do you wish your 20 year old self knew i at that age i would love to know of course it was not a a a business model at that time but i'd love to to do to learn more to do to know more about sas companies synthesize business models yeah learn more about sas earlier there you guys have it from bra tech financial company b2b founded 2012 went to market now doing about 450 grand per month in revenue they've raised four million dollars serving 150 clients in the financial space they then use the bride tech technology to sell through directly to consumers and investors they're going 100 year-over-year so healthy growth rate there again customers paying about three grand per month less than one percent gross revenue churn per year 10 expansion so net expansion there our net revenue retention is about 109 really healthy economics in terms of payback are about seven months so willing to spend 21 grand to acquire a 3 000 a month customer team of 20 people in brazil and other remote locations yuri thank you for taking us to the top thank you nathan