Biswajit Kundu Roy
- Founder at Coastr
GetLatka interview
How Coastr Reached About 20K MRR and 50 Customers in 2022 (Interview with Founder Biswajit Kundu Roy)
Biswajit Kundu Roy (Founder of Coastr) spoke to Nathan Latka on February 9, 2022.
Coastr figures from the interview
- MRR (2022)
- About 20K
- Customers (2022)
- 50
- Team Size (2022)
- 30
- Funding Round (June 2021)
- £1.4M
- Year Founded
- 2018
“It is exactly the kind of the starting point of where the coastr journey began. I'm quite a regular user of car rental myself. I just stopped to wonder what a kind of totally different experience could look like. And that's where sort of the idea behind coastr really emerged.”
“So out of the 50 that I mentioned, all of them are paying customers, but their fleet would vary. So I've given you an average. I think if you are looking for a more accurate figure, you have to ask me an accurate figure. But the whole idea here is pay per use. So as their inventory changes, sometimes they start off with 100, they could go up to 200, they pay per use.”
“We raised our kind of pre seed round back in August 2019, which was a small capital from sort of family and friends, which then kind of gave us the capital to hire some engineers.”
Bio
Biswajit is a software engineer and management consultant by background. An avid traveller, Biswajit faced numerous issues while renting cars which forced him to think about finding a disruptive solution for this industry to ensure fellow travellers can benefit from a truly digital car rental experience of the future.