Mapware
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Mapware plans to bundle its software directly into drone hardware systems
“Part of our strategy for the coming years is like bolting our mapping software into drone systems and kind of doing a bundled sales strategy.”
Sullivan: Mapware was at a $1.5M run rate one year ago
“Yep. 1.5. You're making me spill all the beans here, Nathan.”
Sullivan: Mapware is targeting a $9M run rate by end of 2023
“Revenue. Yep. So we're trying to keep headcount still really, really lean. But you know, we're talking about putting a target up there of nine million.”
Sullivan: Mapware originally charged Comcast roughly $250,000 per city
“Well, yeah, and our pricing model was totally different there. We were doing by a square mile at the time. And so we basically said, hey, we'll map an entire city for you for like a quarter million dollars.”
Sullivan: Mapware should have avoided piecemeal convertible notes
“I'd probably want to have a more comprehensive plan. And I think, you know, if I'm being honest, we went kind of piecemeal convertible note, but you know, kind of just one step in front of the next. And if I could do it all over again, I probably would have sa…”
Sullivan: Mapware raised $10M in equity and a $12M credit line
“So we've done about ten million in equity and another 12 as like a line of credit.”
Mapware pivoted focus to government contracts over commercial clients
“We basically this year made a decision to almost ignore the commercial market in order to satisfy the government market.”
Sullivan: Mapware landed Comcast by cold emailing 1,000 employees
“So our first major customer was Comcast, and we got that customer by emailing a thousand employees at Comcast, and then finally getting in touch.”
Sullivan: Mapware originally explored subscription crop dusting before pivoting
“It originally started as, okay, maybe I can do subscription crop dusting. And we looked at all the different ways that that could work, then realized, wait a minute, trying to bang my head against two regulatory agencies would be a total nightmare.”
Mapware lands orders of hundreds to a thousand government seats
“We're seeing that, you know, with, within the government agencies, we're getting like thousand user orders or like several hundred users at a time which has been great.”