Flume Water

also referred to as: flume

21 statements across 1 episodes · 10 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 10, 2020 by Eric Adler · said 16 times in 1 episodes since 2020 · across every show →

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Dec 10, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adler: Flume consumers check the water monitoring app every two days
“On average right now, we have customers that are checking in on the app about once every two days.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 15:26 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020 neutral
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Adler: Utilities pay Flume roughly $1 per user monthly for SaaS portal
“It's small, you know, we're talking like a dollar per user per month.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 9:36 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020 positive
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Adler: Flume Water lost only one person in four years
“We've only lost one person over the past four years of business.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 17:04 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020
Assertion Supported
Adler: Flume Water hardware retails for $199 on Amazon and DTC
“The hardware is going to cost you one nine nine. So you can buy it on Amazon. You can buy it on our website, but it's 109 nine dollars right now online.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 2:46 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020
Assertion Supported
Adler: About 50% of US Homes Have Experienced Water Damage
“About 50% of homes throughout the country have had water damage, so once someone has experienced that, they never want it to happen again, and spending a 199 bucks to fix that problem is a pretty nominal cost.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 12:48 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020 neutral
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Adler: About 60% of Flume's 10,000 units sold through Amazon
“Probably about 60% of them have come from Amazon.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 11:49 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adler: Flume is approaching 10,000 deployed units
“We're approaching like 10,000 units.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 10:01 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020 bullish
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Adler: Flume Water Grew Unit Sales 7x Year-Over-Year
“We were doing like a hundred units every other month. So we were doing basically nothing. You know, it's in the ballpark seven X growth from last year.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 16:39 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020
Disclosure
Adler: Flume raised three convertible note rounds before $3M priced round
“First round total was 250 K second. It's a very small 1,000,003rd, 750. So these were all convertible notes at basically multiple caps that kept growing. And then recently we did three million on a priced equity round.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 3:59 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020 neutral
Disclosure
Adler: Flume Water's Initial California Unit COGS Was Around $130
“When we initially started out, our cost of goods was hovering around a 130 dollars in California.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 7:48 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Adler: Hippo Insurance actively seeks residential water usage and leak data
“They are looking for data on water usage and leaks.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 5:25 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Adler: Flume avoids consumer subscription fees, monetizing data via third parties
“So we'd like to not, you know, burden the consumer market with another subscription fee that you have to pay for and find ways to get that revenue from kind of third parties that we're working with.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 10:33 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020 neutral
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Adler: Flume's SaaS revenue is in the low thousands per month
“It's small. Yeah. If you're in a, it's in that ballpark, low, low thousands.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 12:06 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adler: Flume spent $2M in capital before generating its first revenue
“Believe it was about two million before we got our first dollar revenue, which is pretty low actually for an IOT company.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 3:20 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
Adler: Flume Installs in 10 Minutes Without Plumbers or Pipe Cutting
“You don't need a plumber come out. You don't need to break any pipes. You can install it in about 10 minutes, and you have leak detection and water monitoring across your entire property, both indoor and outdoor. No one's been able to do that, and that's kind …”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 6:36 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Adler: Flume hardware cost of goods is under $100 overseas
“I can't tell you exactly what our cost of goods are, but I can say, you know, it's under a hundred dollars per unit.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 7:13 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020 bullish
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Adler: Flume Water Sells About 1,000 Units Per Month
“We're doing in the ballpark about a thousand units per month.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 16:19 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020
Disclosure
Adler: Flume's Customer Acquisition Cost Is 25% to 35% of Retail Price
“I can't give you our exact hack but, you know, we're sitting in the I'll just say 25 to 35 percent of our overall price.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 19:21 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Adler: San Antonio utility pays Flume $150 rebate per unit
“San Antonio is paying us a 150 dollars in rebates per unit that we sell. So for customers, they only have to pay 50 bucks and we're able to still gather that 150 dollar cost for the 150 dollar revenue.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 8:31 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adler: Flume gross monthly burn is a few hundred thousand dollars
“You know, we're burning a few hundred grand per month right now. You know, we're not at profitability yet by any means.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 13:54 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
Dec 10, 2020 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adler: About 5% of Flume Customers Pay an Annual Recurring Fee
“We have about five percent of our customers right now that actually are paying a recurring annual fee.”
Eric Adler Dec 10, 2020 ▶ 18:26 FlumeWater Sells 10k Units at $200 With SaaS Upsell
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