Pierce Ujjainwalla
- Founder at Knak
GetLatka interview
How Knak Bootstrapped to a $25M Series A and Grew Over 100% Year Over Year in Codeless Enterprise Email Creation (Interview with Founder Pierce Ujjainwalla)
Pierce Ujjainwalla (Founder of Knak) spoke to Nathan Latka on December 2, 2021.
Knak figures from the interview
- Series A Announced (2021)
- $25M
- Revenue Growth (2021)
- 100% year over year
- Net Dollar Retention (2021)
- Over 100%
- Team Size (2021)
- 45
- Quota-Carrying Sales Reps (2021)
- 1
“We have continued to grow our our business at, you know, over a 100% year over year. We were just named one of Canada's top growing companies where we posted over 500% revenue growth over the last three years.”
“So knak is a codeless enterprise campaign creation platform. And so for everyone out there, you know, you all receive these beautiful marketing emails with the banners and buttons. Well, somebody is coding those most of the time. And an average marketing email is like 800 lines of code.”
“We are proudly bootstrapped right up until our series a. We didn't raise any money before then. And we just announced the $25,000,000 series a with Insight Partners.”
Bio
Pierce is a career marketer who has lived in the marketing trenches at companies like IBM, SAP, NVIDIA, and Marketo. He launched Knak in 2015 as a platform designed to help Marketers simplify email creation. He is also the founder of Revenue Pulse, a marketing operations consultancy.