M-Files

24 statements across 2 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 18, 2022 by Antti Nivala · said 49 times in 2 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Dec 18, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
M-Files employs over 50 quota-carrying sales representatives
“It's in the order of 50 plus.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 11:15 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022
Disclosure
M-Files sells exclusively through partners outside its core Western markets
“We consider North America, Western Europe, and Nordics our Primary sales regions and then rest of the world through partners only.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 11:31 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Partners drive 80% of M-Files customers but only one-third of revenue
“It's about well, let's say, okay, revenue wise, it's about one third but in terms of number of customers, it's much higher at least 80% probably through, through partners.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 9:49 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
M-Files currently serves over 5,000 total customers
“Over 5000 customers in total.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 9:42 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
M-Files averages $50,000 ARR within its ideal customer segment
“I'd say in the ideal customer segment, it's probably on average about 50,000 in ARR. So on annual basis, we have a pretty broad range of smaller and larger, larger customers, but that's, that would be the average.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 4:47 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022
Assertion Supported
M-Files bootstrapped to $9 million in revenue before 2013 Series A
“We got all the way to nine million in revenue before we raised our a round in 2013.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 15:20 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
M-Files contract sizes range from $5,000 to over $1 million annually
“And in that kind of partner business segment, the typical annual prices would be a few, few thousand dollars, let's say five K. And then we go up to our enterprise customers who pay well over a million per year.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 5:13 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
M-Files recently crossed $90 million in annual recurring revenue
“We're just above ninety million in, in ARR.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 13:11 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022
Disclosure
M-Files allocated $30 million of Series C to secondary liquidity
“To be even more precise, we used about thirty million of that a team for secondary.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 17:20 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
M-Files allows reseller partners to independently set end-customer pricing
“We don't we don't enforce pricing to the customers. So our reseller partners would be free to price lower if they want to.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 8:09 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
M-Files charges per internal seat, excluding external clients from billing
“We're actually charged by the seat of seat of the employees in the firm. So let's say tax advisory firm. So the tax experts would be the mFiles users, and we basically let them serve any number of external clients. We don't charge by that.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 4:17 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Nivala pauses sales hiring to focus on current team capacity
“Right now I feel we have, let's say, enough capacity in our sales teams that we don't want to just go and hire new sales reps.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 11:56 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022
Assertion Not checkable as stated
M-Files employs over 600 people, including 150 engineers
“We're about let's say over, over 600 employees and I believe the engineering team is maybe 150.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 10:43 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
M-Files reseller partners retain approximately 30% of customer contract value
“I'm not going to disclose the specific percentages, but something like the 30% would be kept by the partner.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 7:32 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
M-Files active team declined secondary liquidity, leaving it for former employees
“None of us who stayed with the business were that interested in selling any, but yeah, it's a different thing if you've already left the business early on, like with our longer history that some people had left.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 18:03 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
M-Files raised capital while remaining cash flow positive or neutral
“And since we were cashflow positive or cashflow neutral. So like the business didn't really need a lot of additional capital.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 17:45 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022
Disclosure
Nivala details M-Files funding history through its $80 million Series C
“That was our B round. Again in euros, that was a thirty three million euro. So maybe thirty six million dollars B round We've done, we did a debt financing round in 2018 twenty seven million euros, and then a little bit opportunistically we did a C round which…”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 15:47 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022 positive
Insight
M-Files minimizes channel conflict by separating direct and partner deal sizes
“Yeah. Generally. So that's probably also why we don't have that much channel conflict because we don't necessarily compete for the same kind of deals.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 10:13 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022 positive
Disclosure
M-Files direct sales yields to reseller partners on shared prospects
“We try to take upon the first approach. So if we are actually working on the same prospects, we would, Let's say, give way to the partner and rather support them in winning the deal.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 9:08 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Dec 18, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
M-Files maintains 25% to 30% growth without burning cash
“So it's been more of this, you know, 25, 30% growth in the past years. But you know, sustaining that and doing it in an efficient manner, not, not, not really burning cash.”
Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 14:08 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS
Jun 11, 2024
Disclosure
Kim: Team Turnover at M-Files Was Almost Always Driven by Culture Fit
“If I just did a quick, again, not scientific, my sense for what didn't work, was it a performance skill set issue, or was it a lack of culture fit? Almost always for me, it was culture fit.”
Justin Kim Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 6:57 Is Forecasting a Waste? CFO with $123m in Revenue Tells All
Jun 11, 2024
Assertion Supported
M-Files CFO Kim: Company is generating around $130M in revenue
“So today we're doing, ah, you know, somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred and thirty million, something like that”
Justin Kim Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 2:29 Is Forecasting a Waste? CFO with $123m in Revenue Tells All
Jun 11, 2024
Disclosure
M-Files Rigorously Forecasts Only Current and Next Quarter
“Don't try to forecast too far ahead. We have, we're pretty rigorous. We always look at this quarter and next quarter, and that's it. If we're asked for something two, three quarters ahead, you know, we can get some ballpark estimates, but we don't know.”
Justin Kim Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 11:32 Is Forecasting a Waste? CFO with $123m in Revenue Tells All
Jun 11, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
M-Files Built Systems for $100M Scale at $20M–$30M Revenue
“For us in 2018 is when we did a big system rebuild went to NetSuite and brought on some other, other solutions. We clearly designed the business though for looking three, four, five years ahead, we were probably in the 20, thirty million range when we were doi…”
Justin Kim Jun 11, 2024 ▶ 8:59 Is Forecasting a Waste? CFO with $123m in Revenue Tells All
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