Esra Kaygin
- CEO and Co-Founder at Hirize
GetLatka interview
How Hirize Hit $14K MRR in 60 Days with 12 Paying Customers (Interview with CEO Esra Kaygin)
Esra Kaygin (CEO and Co-Founder of Hirize) spoke to Nathan Latka on June 14, 2023.
Hirize figures from the interview
- MRR (June 2023)
- $14,000
- Paying Customers (June 2023)
- 12
- Total Funding Raised
- $1M
- Valuation at Raise (2022)
- $10M
- Team Size (June 2023)
- 7
“So we focus more on HR vendors and enterprise companies. So we are like, you have to think of hirize like AWS. So it's like a core API using your HR tech stack or in the tech stack of your HR startup. So we focus on HR startup, job boards, applicant tracking steps systems.”
“No, we're in the market yet. We just started two months ago and we have 12 customers. We have now around 14 k revenue MRR. It's going really fast. It's going”
“We had, like, a very long beta stage. So we start our first beta release was in October, November.”
Bio
Esra is an accomplished 2x founder, VC partner, investor, lecturer, board member, and author. She has a successful exit, an acclaimed book on innovation, and years of entrepreneurial experience. Currently, she is the CEO of Hirize, a HR technology startup that utilizes AI for optimized hiring. Esra holds degrees in commerce, economics, and management and a master's degree in economics from NYU. Her book, "Did Someone Say Innovation?" distills her expertise in disruptive innovation. As a respected female leader, she has mentored numerous entrepreneurs through Google Launchpad.