Ran Geva
- CEO at Webz.io
GetLatka interview
How Webz.io Reached $260K MRR and 300 Paying Customers in 2018 (Interview with Ran Geva)
Ran Geva (CEO of Webz.io) spoke to Nathan Latka on February 12, 2018.
Webz.io figures from the interview
- MRR (Feb 2018)
- $260,000
- Year-over-Year Growth (2016 to 2017)
- 100%
- Team Size (2018)
- 20
- Paid Ad Spend (2018)
- $4,000 per month
“We sell data feeds. We turn the web into machine readable data feeds, and either individuals or companies tap into this data to feed their analytics applications. So it could be from brand monitoring, PR applications to cybersecurity, financial applications, anything. We're basically leveling the playing ground, letting anyone have access to data from the web.”
“It's a SaaS or data service subscription based. You can go ahead and it's a freemium model basically. Anyone can sign up for free, get access up to 1,000 API calls for free, and then you can upgrade downgrade, cancel anytime, we don't shackle you into long term contracts, because if you see value you will keep on using us, that's what we saw and that's how we go.”
“So between 2016 and 2017, it was 100%, but it's easier when you have lower income. Now we expect to grow about 70%, we are really accelerating as we are providing more data feeds, for example we recently launched the dark web data feed and we see a lot of cyber security interest.”
Bio
Ran is currently the Co-founder and CEO of Webhose.io. Ran has 20 years of experience in technology development and customer/server-related systems. From 2004 to 2007, Ran developed sites and programs in different fields, including file sharing, security and system optimization. In 2007, with his partner Israel Tzadok, Ran established the start-up company Omgili, which developed a search engine, exclusive crawling technologies and qualitative information monitoring of social media. Ran co-founded Buzzilla which develops software that helps brands track, monitor, analyze and extract insight from online content. Ran filled several senior positions in Buzzilla between the years 2011-2016, and still sits on the company’s board of directors.