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Founder Net worth Map: How to use your SaaS to cash out, diversify without losing control
- ▶ 10:46 Ben Carpel So, a little bit of what I talked about here was, you know, how you, well, well, back to this, you know, if you were to use this, or Pipe, or Espresso, or SAS, or Leiter, um, the things I would tell you are to consider the various options,…
- ▶ 16:59 Ben Carpel Uh, with Leiter, with SaaS, I, I think it's a little bit more, it's dressed up in the same, in a different way, but the most important thing is they need to see their money back. 2 times in the scene
How I hit $5m ARR, kept control using 3 different debt providers
- ▶ 1:57 Steve Benson And, and then lighter capital came in the scene, uh, first, and they, they were heavily, they raised a ton of money, and, you know, I forget how much, sixty million dollars, and like, big team, and so, to make the, the economics work on… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:16 Steve Benson Lighter, Scaleworks, and, and, uh, which now they're called Element, Founder Path, and then there's, those are kind of the ones that I think are the most focused on the SaaS industry right now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:01 Steve Benson And, uh, I, I told Leiter, hey, here's, these guys are offering me, can you, can you match it? 4 times in the scene
Shiphero Raised $50m last week, inside their metrics
- ▶ 8:43 Aaron Rubin And then two months ago we borrowed some money, um, from a company called Lighter Capital. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:33 Aaron Rubin So they say they do revenue based financing 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:22 Aaron Rubin Well, we, so now that we took the money from lighter, um, we'll dip into the negative, uh, this month, but for the entire last year, we were profitable. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:15 Nathan Latka Aaron, the founders put in 1.2 million himself, and they just took another 800, uh, K from lighter capital, which is nice.
The Capital Efficient Founder: $2m in, $12m dividends out, Just Exited
- ▶ 13:46 Brad Miller Uh, this was before the days of SAS capital and later capital and people like you.
FundThrough Hits $240m in Invoices Advanced to 2k+ Founders
- ▶ 5:30 Nathan Latka They're not getting more aggressive with RBFs and term loans, even, uh, SAS Capital, Lighter Capital.
Almabase Hits $1.1m Revenue Helping Universities Manage Alumni Donations
- ▶ 8:52 Kalyan Varma We raised a little bit of debt, um, in the last couple of years from lighter capital. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:38 Kalyan Varma It's the, I think they basically put a cap in terms of, uh, for the first, I think, million dollars per year in cash receipts. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:29 Nathan Latka So, so lighter can usually go up to like three, four X of your MRR, which is exactly what it looks like.
SendLane Hits $5m ARR Helping ECommerce Brands Do Email Marketing
- ▶ 4:08 Jimmy Kim Yeah, actually, we actually use debt to, uh, you know, we've, uh, been with lighter capital a couple times now with a couple different tranches, actually, uh, just as recent, recently as the company kind of exploded this year, a lot of our…
- ▶ 7:00 Jimmy Kim Um, you know, for us, uh, with, uh, with lighter than we worked with them, it's a three-year term, right? 3 times in the scene
OnFleet Flirting With $10m ARR Processing 3m Deliveries Per Month for 900 Customers
- ▶ 13:05 Khaled Naim So mentioned that we, you know, we, we work with lighter capital. 2 times in the scene
Tyler Tringas: How Earnest Capital Hopes to Re-Invent Startup Investing
- ▶ 1:31:20 Tyler Tringas When you contrast like something like ClearBank or Letter Capital, you know, these are debt and debt-like instruments that are, you know, have debt-like return profiles and debt-like tax treatment and all that sort of stuff, which is, I'm… 3 times in the scene
DesignPickle: Bootstrapped, $10m Revenue, Helping 3,000 Brands Get Design Work Done
- ▶ 17:44 Nathan Latka And which from SaaS capital, lighter capital? 6 times in the scene
1735 Smarter to Buy vs Build, He bought Company for $10m, Now doing $20m in ARR 3 years later
- ▶ 14:31 Nathan Latka I mean, these whole, SAS Capital, Lighter Capital, Hercules, Timia, SVB, they all exist because traditional banks typically wouldn't loan to people like you because there's no hard assets to loan against. 3 times in the scene
1714 Do This Today: How Much You Get $349b PPP Stimulus for SaaS Founders
- ▶ 6:36 Connor Lee So we use letter capital.
1701 How He Turned 50k Free Users into $12k in MRR
- ▶ 16:30 Nathan Latka Um, have you talked to lighter capital?
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility
- ▶ 14:53 Nathan Latka So like, so for example, lighter capital will go like pre VC as long as you're north, like 15 grand a month in revenue.
1658 Why 142 Production Teams Pay Him $142k/mo For Quicker File Management
- ▶ 11:52 Nathan Latka Have you, did I introduce you to lighter capital? 5 times in the scene
1648 How He Spun $4m ARR Influencer Marketing SaaS Out of Agency
- ▶ 16:13 Nathan Latka We're going to, are you going to probably end up working like a Silicon Valley bank or Hercules or Timia, or are you looking at some of the revenue based financing models like lighter capital?
1606 The Right Way To Use Venture Debt to Hit $320k in MRR
- ▶ 14:24 Rob Farrow We actually did a round of revenue funding with lighter capital a while back, and I couldn't have been more happy. 16 times in the scene
1584 Why 600 Companies Pay Him $150/mo To Help With VC Updates
- ▶ 15:37 Mike Preuss Um, so we, we, we used, uh, uh, lighter capital. 6 times in the scene
1498 Why He Took $1.6M in Venture Debt From Lighter Capital
- ▶ 0:17 Nathan Latka They've just raised three million bucks in equity, another 1.6 in venture debt from lighter capital.
- ▶ 11:57 Mark Aubin And then, uh, we take our debt through lighter capital. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:22 Nathan Latka Another 1.6 in venture debt from lighter capital.
1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise
- ▶ 17:20 Garen Hess I would, I would highly recommend them to any entrepreneurs, uh, looking around for that out there because I looked at a lot of other firms like lighter capital and others and, um, nothing against the other firms, but these guys have been…
1412 Passed $12m in ARR, Banks Use This API To Decrease Currency Risk
- ▶ 16:54 Darren Jer And, um, you know, we had some cash crunches to get through, found a great partner in lighter capital based in Seattle. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:56 Nathan Latka Would you recommend, there's a lot of people thinking about using lighter capital. 7 times in the scene
1405 How ClickDimensions is using Microsoft Ecosytem To Drive to $40m in ARR
- ▶ 13:46 Nathan Latka Kick into play when you look at kind of downstream, you've got the SAS capitals, the lighter capitals of the world, and then once you're at your size, 30, 40, fifty million, a hundred million in ARR, you can go to like a Hercules, a Timia,…
1346 How CommercialTribe Broke 125% Net Revenue Retention Annually
- ▶ 8:07 Nathan Latka In the form of venture debt from a Timia or Hercules or lighter capital or scale works or these guys you've chosen not to do that.
1245 He Used These 3 Channels To Hit $50k in MRR in 7 Months
- ▶ 13:15 Chris Ronzio Yeah, we have looked at options like lighter capital and those kind of things. 9 times in the scene
1227 Would $24m ARR Dashlane Ever Merge with LastPass?
- ▶ 18:52 Nathan Latka What are some options, like actual names, some names, you know, SAS capital, lighter capitals out there, Silicon Valley bank scale works.
1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend
- ▶ 13:40 Nathan Latka I mean, when you look at like lighter capital, SAS capital, any of these venture debt guys, Silicon Valley banks, square one, I mean, a lot of them will put out term sheets somewhere between four and six X of your monthly recurring revenue…
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches
- ▶ 6:01 Nathan Latka You have folks like lighter capital, SaaS capital, 7 times in the scene
1096 How TapClicks is Managaing 60% yoy Growth in Marketing Dashboard Space
- ▶ 12:35 Nathan Latka Is it similar to a SaaS capital or a lighter capital in terms of the terms?
1043 HR Tech CEO: I accidently raised $3m!
- ▶ 4:27 Nathan Latka So what you, what I hear you saying is, um, to prevent any bias you have, especially ethically and with the government, you would go use the same term structure that a lighter capital or SAS capital would use, but then you just do the deal…
899 How to Reward Customers with GiftCards at Scale Using $10m+ Revenue TangoCard
- ▶ 8:09 Nathan Latka Why did you use them versus, like, something in between, like a lighter capital? 2 times in the scene
867 SaaS: 80% yoy Growth, Badger Maps Passes $180k MRR
- ▶ 11:46 Steve Benson And the company we did it with, uh, it's a five year payback period. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:58 Nathan Latka So when Lighter Capital is analyzing whether or not to do a deal with you guys, they're looking at cash flow, not kind of MRR. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:50 Nathan Latka So it's non dilutive, which I just think is wonderful and a great approach and a shout out to the lighter capital team for helping, uh, make that deal happen.
659: He's Winning In Home Fitness Wars: $3+ Million Monthly Revenue, $45 Million Raised
- ▶ 25:53 Nathan Latka If you're a startup looking to raise capital BJ Lackland of lighter capital is joining me to explain how you can get your hands on it.
658: Startups, $120 Million Up For Grabs! As Close to "Free Money" as You Can Get.
- ▶ 1:29 Nathan Latka As an investor, he's been a VC, an angel, and is now the CEO of, uh, Lighter Capital. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:49 Nathan Latka That that's why I wanted to bring BJ on with lighter capital. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:21 Nathan Latka The interesting thing that I think I can't help but think about when I think about your model at Lighter Capital is when I talk to a lot of these traditional VCs, you know, they obviously, you see significant power dynamics happening where…
- ▶ 15:23 Nathan Latka Of CEOs that have gone the lighter capital route and done kind of the funding route in this, in this kind of different way. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:32 Nathan Latka There you guys have it from BJ, again, of Lighter Capital. 5 times in the scene
EP 560: Badger Maps Does $1.2M in 2016, $120k MRR, Looking to 3x with CEO Steven Benson
- ▶ 13:18 Nathan Latka Um, that was a lighter, so lighter capital. 5 times in the scene
EP 542: HipLead Hits $120k MRR Helping 30 Customers Get More Leads with CEO COnor Lee
- ▶ 8:49 Connor Lee No, it was actually, uh, it was actually a loan from lighter capital. 3 times in the scene