Grain

company on 6 shows · 18 statements across 7 episodes · said 51 times in 7 episodes since 2021

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CATALYST Assertion Supported
Grunwald: Beef Production Is 100 Times Less Efficient Than Direct Grain
“It takes about nine calories worth of grain to produce one calorie worth of chicken meat, and when it comes to cows, which are, you know, much less efficient, dairy is even worse, and beef, it's extraordinary. It can be 30, 50, some people would say a hundred …”
Mike Grunwald Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 21:47 The climate-ag grab bag
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Grain takes a 20 to 30 basis point spread on FX hedges
“It's basically 20, 30 basis points, you know, above my cost of hedging, which is actually very, very competitive.”
Aaron Navin Dec 29, 2022 ▶ 5:14 FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Navin: Grain Provides Embedded FX Hedging to Travel Platforms
“Actually, now we're serving, we are more of an embedded finance, so we are providing hedging, yeah, to travel platforms in the travel industry, ok?”
Aaron Navin Dec 29, 2022 ▶ 7:25 FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries
TOP FOUNDERS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Navin: Grain will scale hedging volume to $15B by 2025
“No, I'm saying exponential, then in twenty-twenty-four, yeah, we will have probably between five to seven billion dollars of hedging, and then it's going in, in exponential way. So 24, 25, probably we're going to be like 15,000.”
Aaron Navin Dec 29, 2022 ▶ 18:40 FinTech Helps Hotel Bed Owners in US Hedge FX Risk Selling to Travelers in Other Countries
HOW I BUILT THIS Assertion Partly supported
Menker: China transitioned into a structural importer of core grains in 2020
“In twenty-twenty, it turned into a structural importer of grains. That means that the world's sort of largest economy went from being self-sufficient in some of these core grains to being insufficient.”
Sara Menker Dec 8, 2022 ▶ 17:53 HIBT Lab! Gro Intelligence: Sara Menker
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Grain co-founder Mike Adams discloses $7M raised and 15-person team size
“So it's been about seven million dollars total that we raised. And our team is about 15 people.”
Mike Adams May 25, 2021 ▶ 7:08 Zoom Recording Tool Grain Hits 300 Teams, On Track for $1m ARR, New $3m Raise in Upround
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Mike Adams discloses unannounced $3M SAFE raise for Grain
“So it's one at the beginning and then three in a price round, that four was announced and we raised an additional three that has not yet been announced.”
Mike Adams May 25, 2021 ▶ 7:21 Zoom Recording Tool Grain Hits 300 Teams, On Track for $1m ARR, New $3m Raise in Upround
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adams confirms Grain's follow-on SAFE had a substantially higher valuation cap
“Substantially higher.”
Mike Adams May 25, 2021 ▶ 8:42 Zoom Recording Tool Grain Hits 300 Teams, On Track for $1m ARR, New $3m Raise in Upround
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adams: The average customer team using Grain is about three people
“The average team is about three people right now.”
Mike Adams May 25, 2021 ▶ 12:34 Zoom Recording Tool Grain Hits 300 Teams, On Track for $1m ARR, New $3m Raise in Upround
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Adams: Grain operates purely self-serve without a sales team
“Our self-serve model, we don't have a sales team yet. We're just kind of you sign up for grain, you start using it and you can grow and expand that, that usage.”
Mike Adams May 25, 2021 ▶ 12:47 Zoom Recording Tool Grain Hits 300 Teams, On Track for $1m ARR, New $3m Raise in Upround
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Grain surpasses 10,000 registered sign-ups and several hundred paying accounts
“So we have we have several hundred paying accounts and then across that, you know, we have a lot of users per account. And so we right now are we have well over 10,000 that have signed up for the product.”
Mike Adams May 25, 2021 ▶ 14:15 Zoom Recording Tool Grain Hits 300 Teams, On Track for $1m ARR, New $3m Raise in Upround
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Grain converts about 3% of new sign-up accounts to paid plans
“So on an account basis, we have it, you, it ends up being at about a three percent conversion rate on the new companies that come in and that are getting into a paid account.”
Mike Adams May 25, 2021 ▶ 14:48 Zoom Recording Tool Grain Hits 300 Teams, On Track for $1m ARR, New $3m Raise in Upround
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Grain's paid customer base is split 50/50 between Unlimited and Pro tiers
“We're about 50, 50 between people who are on unlimited and people who are on pro.”
Mike Adams May 25, 2021 ▶ 15:43 Zoom Recording Tool Grain Hits 300 Teams, On Track for $1m ARR, New $3m Raise in Upround
TOP FOUNDERS Prediction Not checkable as stated
Grain is on track to hit $1M ARR by end of 2021
“Oh, absolutely. I mean, for us, the growth rate is continuing to grow and increase. We've just been, just begun to tap the market. And so we're absolutely on track for that, that being our goal this year.”
Mike Adams May 25, 2021 ▶ 15:56 Zoom Recording Tool Grain Hits 300 Teams, On Track for $1m ARR, New $3m Raise in Upround
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adams: Grain sees under 10% churn for activated teams
“So once you've established that there's a core use case for Grape, we found a less than a 10% churn rate there across time. And we've had those teams for well over a year now.”
Mike Adams May 25, 2021 ▶ 17:28 Zoom Recording Tool Grain Hits 300 Teams, On Track for $1m ARR, New $3m Raise in Upround
Zafar: Harvested Stored Grain Never Improves in Quality
“So grain, once you harvest it and store it, never improves in quality. It goes downhill.”
Naeem Zafar May 12, 2020 ▶ 2:05 1753 "IoT AgTech Device Hits $1m Software Run Rate and $1.2m in Hardware Sales. Can He Get $60m Valuation? "
NEON SHOW Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kahn: Indian agricultural policy focuses on grains and fertilizer over horticulture
“The Indian government is not active in all aspects of agriculture. They are primarily active in, in grains, much more so than in horticulture. They are Active in fertilizer and sugar. And then when you move away from that and you move towards you know, when yo…”
Mark Kahn Apr 12, 2020 ▶ 13:20 Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Zafar: Spent three years researching IoT use cases before choosing grain
“It took me three years to find out the right use case in IOT, Internet of Things. And grain seemed to be the right place with A very easy, competitive landscape.”
Naeem Zafar Oct 4, 2019 ▶ 1:54 1532 His Hardware + Software Will Reduce Grain Spoilage by 30-50%

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