Venga

15 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 11, 2019 by Sam Pollaro · said 12 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Oct 11, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pollaro: Venga operates across 150 to 200 brands
“Probably between a 152 hundred brands.”
Sam Pollaro Oct 11, 2019 ▶ 2:17 1539 How Venga Hit 2000 locations, $3.6m ARR on $2.7m Raised Helping Restaurants, Fitness Centers with Customer Experience
Oct 11, 2019 negative
What-if
Pollaro would wait much longer to raise funding if starting over
“Well, I think, you know, if I were to do it all over again, I might take a different path. I would certainly wait much longer to raise money.”
Sam Pollaro Oct 11, 2019 ▶ 3:52 1539 How Venga Hit 2000 locations, $3.6m ARR on $2.7m Raised Helping Restaurants, Fitness Centers with Customer Experience
Oct 11, 2019
Disclosure
Pollaro: Venga took three years and multiple pivots to find product-market fit
“So we actually launched in 2011 with a product that's slightly different from what we do now. Like most companies, you know, we pivoted a couple times along the way. We realized within probably six months that our first product wasn't gonna work, and we pivote…”
Sam Pollaro Oct 11, 2019 ▶ 4:32 1539 How Venga Hit 2000 locations, $3.6m ARR on $2.7m Raised Helping Restaurants, Fitness Centers with Customer Experience
Oct 11, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Pollaro: Venga charges $200 to $300 monthly per location
“Between two and 300 dollars per month per location. So if you're a restaurant group and you've got 10 locations, you're paying, you know, 2500 bucks a month.”
Sam Pollaro Oct 11, 2019 ▶ 1:36 1539 How Venga Hit 2000 locations, $3.6m ARR on $2.7m Raised Helping Restaurants, Fitness Centers with Customer Experience
Oct 11, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pollaro: Venga generates about $300K in MRR
“We're doing about 300,000 in monthly recurring revenue.”
Sam Pollaro Oct 11, 2019 ▶ 2:33 1539 How Venga Hit 2000 locations, $3.6m ARR on $2.7m Raised Helping Restaurants, Fitness Centers with Customer Experience
Oct 11, 2019
Assertion Partly supported
Pollaro: Venga raised a convertible note, $1M Series A, and $1.5M bridge
“So our first round was a convertible note. We then did a million dollar series A, and then we did a bridge round million and a half after that that now since converted to equity. So now everything's in equity.”
Sam Pollaro Oct 11, 2019 ▶ 12:50 1539 How Venga Hit 2000 locations, $3.6m ARR on $2.7m Raised Helping Restaurants, Fitness Centers with Customer Experience
Oct 11, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pollaro: Mindbody and OpenTable clients churn less when using Venga
“They actually make those referrals because it's in their best interest to because once one of their clients is using our product, they're actually stickier and less likely to churn than if they weren't.”
Sam Pollaro Oct 11, 2019 ▶ 10:30 1539 How Venga Hit 2000 locations, $3.6m ARR on $2.7m Raised Helping Restaurants, Fitness Centers with Customer Experience
Oct 11, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pollaro: Venga spends 60 to 75 cents per dollar of new ARR
“Right now we spend typically probably about 60 to 75 cents for every dollar in ARR that we acquire.”
Sam Pollaro Oct 11, 2019 ▶ 9:24 1539 How Venga Hit 2000 locations, $3.6m ARR on $2.7m Raised Helping Restaurants, Fitness Centers with Customer Experience
Oct 11, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pollaro: Venga employs a team of 21 people
“21.”
Sam Pollaro Oct 11, 2019 ▶ 8:23 1539 How Venga Hit 2000 locations, $3.6m ARR on $2.7m Raised Helping Restaurants, Fitness Centers with Customer Experience
Oct 11, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pollaro: Venga serves about 2,000 locations
“We're about 2000 locations.”
Sam Pollaro Oct 11, 2019 ▶ 2:13 1539 How Venga Hit 2000 locations, $3.6m ARR on $2.7m Raised Helping Restaurants, Fitness Centers with Customer Experience
Oct 11, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pollaro: Venga is growing at roughly 35% annually
“We're growing about 35% a year.”
Sam Pollaro Oct 11, 2019 ▶ 3:09 1539 How Venga Hit 2000 locations, $3.6m ARR on $2.7m Raised Helping Restaurants, Fitness Centers with Customer Experience
Oct 11, 2019
Disclosure
Pollaro: Venga pays no kickbacks to Mindbody or OpenTable reps
“We don't, we would actually like to, but you know, the way our agreement works, you know mind, body, open table, they don't want us paying their reps you know, to sell our product.”
Sam Pollaro Oct 11, 2019 ▶ 10:17 1539 How Venga Hit 2000 locations, $3.6m ARR on $2.7m Raised Helping Restaurants, Fitness Centers with Customer Experience
Oct 11, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Pollaro: Venga would likely look to revenue-based financing for future funding
“And then we thought about like a revenue back revenue based loans. We've considered that. And so that would probably be the first place we go for funding at this point.”
Sam Pollaro Oct 11, 2019 ▶ 13:09 1539 How Venga Hit 2000 locations, $3.6m ARR on $2.7m Raised Helping Restaurants, Fitness Centers with Customer Experience
Oct 11, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pollaro: Venga has negative net churn on a revenue basis
“Yeah, we actually have on a revenue basis, we have negative net churn.”
Sam Pollaro Oct 11, 2019 ▶ 6:56 1539 How Venga Hit 2000 locations, $3.6m ARR on $2.7m Raised Helping Restaurants, Fitness Centers with Customer Experience
Oct 11, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pollaro: Venga has been profitable and cash-flow positive for the past year
“No, we, we've been cashflow positive and profitable for the last year.”
Sam Pollaro Oct 11, 2019 ▶ 10:47 1539 How Venga Hit 2000 locations, $3.6m ARR on $2.7m Raised Helping Restaurants, Fitness Centers with Customer Experience
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