Braden Dennis
Co-Founder and CEO, Fiscal.ai. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Braden Dennis is the co-founder and CEO of Fiscal.ai, an AI-powered financial research and market analytics platform. He is also the co-host of The Canadian Investor Podcast.
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1said about them ↓ Everything Braden Dennis said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Dennis: Raising $10M in VC dramatically raises a startup's failure risk
“Yes, it does, without a doubt, and I think that this is the one thing that me and my co-founders hummed and hawed on the most. As I sat them down, because I deal with all the fundraising and talking with investors as the CEO, and I told them, guys, This change…”
Dennis: VCs Are Right That AI Startups Must Raise More Capital
“Every venture investor is like, take more and go try to get this thing. And you know what? I don't think that's venture investors trying to be evil. They're actually right. They've seen pattern recognition that you're gonna need more capital. This is AI and yo…”
Dennis: A media audience scales SaaS from zero to one, not beyond
“It gave us a great zero to one, but it is not going to be the thing that gets you like one to 10 or anything like that. I agree that it shouldn't be a main priority for SaaS founders.”
Dennis: Incumbents Rely on Tens of Thousands of Manual Data Aggregators
“They are essentially aggregating financial data with people at scale. Tens of thousands of people manually aggregating financial data at scale.”
Dennis: Startups hit an operational wall at 25 employees
“That's the wall, I would say, is 25. And I was like, ok, I say I've been the CEO of this company for two years, but I haven't been. Now I need to be”
Dennis: Fiscal.ai shut down an AI copilot growing 20% monthly at $1.5M ARR
“It went from zero to a million and a half of ARR growing, you know, 20% a month consistent, even when I shut it down.”
Dennis: Fiscal.ai signed $250k enterprise copilot deals that quickly churned
“The problem with it was we were signing big customers. One of them was 250,000 dollars a year. Several were in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, some on the just tens of thousands of dollars. And a lot of customers were coming offline pretty quick and tell…”
Dennis: Manage Co-Founders Through Dissent-Driven Alignment Rather Than Consensus
“We don't
Pose strategic questions and say, what do we think?
I pose the strategic question, say, this is what I'm doing.
This is what, where we're going to go.
Does anyone have any major issues with this?
If so, then speak up, then we'll reroute.
But if not, a…”
Dennis: FinChat hit 65,000 signups within 46 hours of its initial launch
“And we launched it in April and we had 65,000 signups On like hour 46 or something of it being live.”
Dennis: Raising capital creates no intrinsic value and is not a milestone
“Like raising money is in itself is not a milestone. It's a tool like that. I love the Craig from Castos. It's a tool to live in the future. Like that's exactly like, I don't think I've heard of a better saying on what funding is because in itself, It's not a m…”
Dennis: Messing up the cap table is an irreversible startup mistake
“It's one of the only irreversible mistakes is messing up your cap table.”
Dennis: FinChat stopped accepting inbound enterprise API customers
“So we decided we're not taking any more you know, inbound for this.”
Dennis: Fiscal.ai Has Raised $13M in Total Funding
“Total funding to date is now thirteen million us”
Dennis: Financial Buyers Blocked AI Chat Domains, Hurting FinChat GTM
“A lot of Big bureaucratic financial buyers. They had almost all AI chat domains blocked on the server because they didn't want anyone putting in customer sensitive information, proprietary trading data, stuff like that. And so we were just always blocked. So t…”
Dennis: Sequoia gives 'The Great CEO Within' to every founder it funds
“It's a book that every Sequoia founder is given when they invest in them.”
Dennis: Fiscal.ai raised $200K from TinySeed with only $10K in the bank
“I think it was 200 K that we raised from you guys. And so at that time now, nowadays I'm like, that's like, what do I do with that? Right. But at that time, when you have 10,000 in the bank, it's everything, right?”
FinChat reached seven figures in ARR with 11 team members
“So we are a team of 11 people soon to be 12 in a few days seven figures in ARR company, and the platform is for investment research.”
Dennis: Low-priced subscription software creates heavy churn and limits scaling
“Anytime you have really low priced products, you face a lot of churn. It's really, really hard to scale something when people are paying nine bucks a month”
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