Brigit reached over $10M ARR before raising its 2019 Series A
Zuben Matthews · How he grew to $100M ARR—then exited for $460M. | Zuben Matthews, Founder of Brigit · PMF Show · Jul 14, 2025 · at 28:02
Zuben Matthews, founder of Brigit, details the company's rapid revenue growth leading up to its Series A funding round.
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“This was before our launch, because our beta, I mean, our early, our customer number one was six months or something post that, and we did our series A in 2019, but by that time we had gotten 10 plus million in ARR.”
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