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How MagicBell Reached About 100 Paying Customers with a $4.5M Seed Round (Interview with CEO Hana Mohan)

Hana Mohan (CEO and Co-Founder of MagicBell) spoke to Nathan Latka on July 6, 2022.

MagicBell figures from the interview

Customers (2022)
100
Avg Contract Value (2022)
About $10,000
Seed Funding Raised (2021)
$4.5M
Team Size (2022)
11
“So magicbell was an idea that came out of SupportBee, in fact, because SupportBee relied heavily on notifications, email notifications, and mobile notifications. And I just spent so much time building notifications in SupportBee that at some point, I figured actually seems like a more interesting problem for me personally because SupportBee is a great business, but I am an engineer myself and I had always wanted to build an API product.”
“notification inbox and then like a complete notification system for your product. So within an hour, you can have an inbox in your product. You can have email notifications, text notifications, and we'll manage you know, click smart delivery so people don't get it twice. Or if you mark it read in one place, it's read everywhere else. The the entire kind of, like, modern notification experience out of the box.”
“So we do have a pretty generous free plan, kind of, like, PLG, I guess. And our paid plan start at $99 a month, going all the way up to 1,200. And then we also sell some custom contracts enterprise upmarket.”

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Bio

Hana Mohan is the co-founder of MagicBell, a notifications inbox geared toward app creators. Before that, she founded two other software companies: SupportBee, a customer support SaaS company, and Muziboo, an online music community where users can upload and discuss songs. She is a programmer, a maker at heart, and a transgender woman who speaks openly about her transition. She was the first openly transgender woman to participate in Y Combinator.

Company

MagicBell

San Francisco, United States · Founded 2020

Revenue
$1.2M
Funding
$4.5M
Team size
8
Customers
100

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