Bobbi Racette pitches Virtual Gurus to investors on The Pitch, highlighting non-dilutive matching grants available to the company.
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Competitor Zirtual sends its virtual assistants to train at Virtual Gurus Academy
“Because even some of our competitors have actually been sending people to do or go through our academy. So we've had actually Zurch will send a few.”
What-if
Bobbi Racette says Hyatt's complex terms required a $250,000 investment, not $25,000
“And to be honest, like, if he was coming in at 200 or 250 or something like that, then I would obviously have, I would have totally educated and thought, okay, you know what, like, this is probably good. Because he's coming in as, you know, a higher investor, …”
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Bobbi Racette says Virtual Gurus has 160 active and 6,000 pre-vetted assistants
“So all of our virtual assistants are North American and we have over a 160 active working ones with 6000 in our database That have already been pre-vetted.”
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Bobbi Racette grew Virtual Gurus to $1.3 million in annual recurring revenue
“And we've launched two and a half years ago, and our current annual reoccurring revenue is 1.3 million.”
Disclosure
Bobbi Racette is raising $300,000 to finish a $1.35 million funding round
“Yeah, so I'm here raising 300,000 to top off my 1.35 million raise.”
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Virtual Gurus charges clients $35 an hour and pays assistants $18-$22
“So we charge the client 35 an hour, and then we pay the VA anywhere from 18 to 22 an hour.”