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Coupa's ACV grew for 34 straight quarters, reaching millions in enterprise
“Well, that's gone up virtually every quarter now for 34 quarters in the mid-market, it's anywhere from, you know, 50,000 to maybe 200,000 or so dollars a year, so annual subscription. And in the enterprise, it's hundreds of thousands, in many cases, a couple o…”
Coupa priced its IPO at a unicorn valuation, avoiding a down round
“No, no, no. That's not our good either. We were somewhere in that same neighborhood. It was just like roughly unicorn kind of thing. And we entered in at the same place and then it went up to I don't know, 1.7 billion or something. And it's, so it's been aroun…”
Bernshteyn: Coupa prospects froze dealmaking during month one of COVID lockdowns
“There was almost a deer in headlights moment amongst all of our, you know, the vast majority, I would say of our prospects around the world, whereas we don't know what's going to happen. So we actually need your help. You know, we need to get PPE equipment. We…”
Coupa deployments average 6–9 months for enterprise, 4–5 weeks mid-market
“Well, the average is roughly six to nine months for enterprise customers, our mid-market customers, you know, four, maybe five weeks.”
Bernshteyn: Spend data showed brick-and-mortar retail declining quarters before COVID-19
“When we're looking at our business spend index, if your viewers go to spendindex.com, they can see the data on that. I mean, we've been looking to retail for three, four quarters, and it's been trending down.”
Bernshteyn: Nearly half of US B2B payments remain paper-based checks
“A lot of manual, a lot of paper in the United States, right? Nearly half is paper-based checks.”
Bernshteyn: Coupa's 2009 round was $7M at a $15.5M post-money valuation
“Our first raise that, that I was involved in was, you know, was fifteen million and a half posts, right? It was I think seven million dollar raise, 15 and a half post.”
Bernshteyn: Zero early Coupa customers used its 12-month money-back guarantee
“No, not even that material. None asked for the money back.”
Coupa expanded margins for 34 consecutive quarters and achieved cash flow positivity
“So we've expanded our margins for virtually every quarter for 34 quarters, both scripture margin, gross margin. And we've been now cash flow positive for the last trailing 12 months.”
Coupa achieves 95% gross and 110% net revenue retention
“So our revenue retention is been roughly around 95% for years. And with add on business, which we're not focused on at all, it's nearly about a 110%.”
Coupa's gross margins expanded from 30% to nearly 70%
“We didn't know that gross margins have carefully expanded also for about 34. I mean, they were at a 30% now, you know, we're touching 70%. Subscription is 90 something. So we don't have an issue there.”
Coupa shrank from 19 to 6 employees during its 2009 turnaround
“No, actually one gentleman from Oracle left, started the company. They got it to about 19 people. And that's why I said to you, January or nine, that's why I came in. Remember that was a very tough time. I've taken the company down a lot. And three months late…”
Bernshteyn: Coupa raised $180M pre-IPO and holds a couple hundred million in cash
“We've raised the total of, I think now I think about a 180, and then we did an IPO. So after the IPO was about 75, we did a secondary. So a few hundred million, and you know, we've got a couple hundred million in the bank right now, too.”