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Downey: RealKey's AI pitch is 'snake oil' hiding a logic engine
“I'm saying that if, I agree with you, like, if they really had that, that would be something, but my intuitive sense when you said that, because I've just been steeled against this from so many pitches, is that you don't have true AI, it's not built, it's just…”
Hudson calls the RealKey pitch the most frustrating he's ever heard
“This is like the most frustrating pitch I've ever had.”
Hussain says the word 'pivot' is nails on a chalkboard to VCs
“As soon as you use the word pivot, it's like, A record stopping. It's like, you know, nails on a chalkboard, because a lot of companies have not done very well with pivots.”
Hudson: Mortgage lenders' desire to digitize exceeds their ability to adopt tech
“And these customers, their desire to digitize, at least what I've seen, is much greater than their ability to digest New technology, particularly on the workflow side.”
RealKey's MVP reached $70,000 MRR in its first four months
“In fact, our MVP within only four months, Reach 70,000 MRR and we're raising a million dollars right now to go through and to grow our sales and support team to grow our current market.”
Hussain plans to raise a $10M to $25M Series A next year
“The reason that we're raising a million dollars right now is to get the feature product sets out as quickly as possible, and we're immediately going into our A round next year. We'll be raising about 10 to twenty-five million dollars at that point to substanti…”
RealKey's new product isn't live yet and launches in Q1
“New product is not live in the market. It's going out in Q one. So currently we actually have every, all of our current users are on the old platform.”
Hyatt passes because Hussain couldn't articulate the product or strategy
“I wanted to invest, but I couldn't because I just didn't feel it could articulate the whole plan, the strategy, the product, the why is there.”
RealKey raised $700,000 in funding after pitching on the show
“Christopher says they've raised 700,000 dollars since his pitch on our show, and that the product launch he's been talking about this whole time is finally happening.”
RealKey is raising at a $7M valuation after three prior rounds
“So as far as evaluation right now, it's at seven million. We initially raised We did 300 K at three million, we did 500 K at 5,000,700 K at seven million. So we closed that out last August.”
Downey passes on RealKey due to the founder's communication style
“So, for me, it, it's not gonna be a fit, and the reason is, it's the communication style that we've been talking about here. I think as a CEO and a leader, you need to push yourself to be more big picture. Like, everyone here has been struggling with the messa…”