Pavel Danilov
- Co-Founder at Bennudata
GetLatka interview
How Bennudata Is Building Automated Cloud Disaster Recovery on $400K in Funding (Interview with Co-Founder Pavel Danilov)
Pavel Danilov (Co-Founder of Bennudata) spoke to Nathan Latka on December 5, 2023.
Bennudata figures from the interview
- Total Funding Raised (2023)
- $400K
- Revenue (2023)
- $0
- Team Size (2023)
- 3
- Capital Spent (2023)
- $150K
“So my business was not the technically speaking, Ghost Kitchen. It was a dark store, so we were selling groceries. And but I think the trend is similar. The market is well, the economics is very hard. The very operational business and a lot of costs. And the main problem is courier courier related costs. So you pay them per hour, and it's very high. So basically, it's really hard to get to the breakeven.”
“I realized that I still I have a scar from the human human intensive business with, like, all a lot of employees. So I wanted to build something which doesn't have a lot of employees, just software and b to b.”
“So we are building automation for disaster recovery process in the cloud. So the thing is the the backup is a huge business. Right? How you back up your servers, your cloud resources, and it's it's automated. But with the recovery, how you actually bring this backup back back to life, back online is very manual still.”
Bio
Before co-founding Bennudata in November 2022, I was co-founder and CEO of Fridge No More, an ultrafast grocery delivery. I scaled it from Zero to $40M ARR, 30 dark stores, and 85,000+ customers in New York and Boston from 2020 to 2022. Before that, I worked in investment banking for eight years, founded Agrosputnik, satellite imagery AI for agriculture, and invested in four foodtech&AI startups. Stanford GSB alum, MSX Program in 2016