Dodda: Scaling US B2B SaaS to $10M ARR requires $20M+ in capital
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MoEngage CEO Raviteja Dodda discusses with Siddharth Ahluwalia the capital requirements for enterprise SaaS startups scaling in the US market versus India.
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“Yeah, yeah, for sure. I think more like 20 plus.”
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