WordLift

35 statements across 3 episodes · 19 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement May 31, 2021 by Andrea Volpini · said 48 times in 3 episodes since 2021 · across every show →

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May 31, 2021 positive
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WordLift maintains net profit margins of 30% to 40%
“So pretty much we always keep like 30, 40% of that.”
Andrea Volpini May 31, 2021 ▶ 8:18 SEO Tool Hits $1m Revenue, 90% yoy Growth, Doing $5m Seed Round Now?
May 31, 2021 positive
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Volpini: WordLift customer lifetime value is €1,200 to €1,400
“So, so the lifetime value is between 1201 1400 euro.”
Andrea Volpini May 31, 2021 ▶ 9:22 SEO Tool Hits $1m Revenue, 90% yoy Growth, Doing $5m Seed Round Now?
May 31, 2021 positive
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Volpini: WordLift maintains annual revenue churn between 5% and 6%
“I think we have an annual churn of between five and six percent monthly. Annual.”
Andrea Volpini May 31, 2021 ▶ 10:43 SEO Tool Hits $1m Revenue, 90% yoy Growth, Doing $5m Seed Round Now?
May 31, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Volpini: WordLift gives employees a 5% kickback for referring clients
“We do have like a five percent kickback if you bring me a client, stuff like that, very basic, but we should do more.”
Andrea Volpini May 31, 2021 ▶ 14:25 SEO Tool Hits $1m Revenue, 90% yoy Growth, Doing $5m Seed Round Now?
May 31, 2021 neutral
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Volpini denies WordLift is in acquisition talks with ZoomInfo
“Not at all. Not at all. Not yet. I mean, I haven't got a proposal”
Andrea Volpini May 31, 2021 ▶ 3:38 SEO Tool Hits $1m Revenue, 90% yoy Growth, Doing $5m Seed Round Now?
May 31, 2021 bullish
Opinion
Volpini: WordLift is valued at around €5 million
“Around five... Five million euro.”
Andrea Volpini May 31, 2021 ▶ 16:34 SEO Tool Hits $1m Revenue, 90% yoy Growth, Doing $5m Seed Round Now?
May 31, 2021 neutral
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Volpini: WordLift generates 80% of revenue from enterprise customers
“So we do have these you know, 80, 20 split between enterprise and self-serving.”
Andrea Volpini May 31, 2021 ▶ 10:07 SEO Tool Hits $1m Revenue, 90% yoy Growth, Doing $5m Seed Round Now?
May 31, 2021 bullish
Disclosure
Volpini is ready to sell WordLift for €7 million
“But if you find me someone that wants to buy at seven million, then I'm ready.”
Andrea Volpini May 31, 2021 ▶ 17:47 SEO Tool Hits $1m Revenue, 90% yoy Growth, Doing $5m Seed Round Now?
May 31, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Volpini: WordLift works with ZoomInfo to structure search data
“We're working, for instance, with ZoomInfo and other, you know, database-oriented companies that use WordLift to present their data at best to search engines.”
Andrea Volpini May 31, 2021 ▶ 3:01 SEO Tool Hits $1m Revenue, 90% yoy Growth, Doing $5m Seed Round Now?
May 31, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Volpini: WordLift co-founders own roughly 80% of the company
“No, it's less. I mean we are in the range of 80%.”
Andrea Volpini May 31, 2021 ▶ 14:00 SEO Tool Hits $1m Revenue, 90% yoy Growth, Doing $5m Seed Round Now?
May 31, 2021 positive
Assertion Contradicted
WordLift broke $1M in revenue in 2020, hitting €906,000
“2020, we broke a million dollar. We were actually 900 and 6000 in Euro. So we're below a million in Euro, but yeah, we broke the one million dollars.”
Andrea Volpini May 31, 2021 ▶ 7:43 SEO Tool Hits $1m Revenue, 90% yoy Growth, Doing $5m Seed Round Now?
May 31, 2021 positive
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WordLift generates $80k to $90k in monthly recurring revenue
“We are around 8080, 90 K per month.”
Andrea Volpini May 31, 2021 ▶ 7:35 SEO Tool Hits $1m Revenue, 90% yoy Growth, Doing $5m Seed Round Now?
May 31, 2021 positive
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Volpini: WordLift spends €160 to €180 per customer acquisition via inbound
“We acquire clients with inbound, which means that if I take the marketing cost and I kind of put the, into the, you know, the numbers, we spent 161 180 euro per acquisition of a client.”
Andrea Volpini May 31, 2021 ▶ 9:03 SEO Tool Hits $1m Revenue, 90% yoy Growth, Doing $5m Seed Round Now?
May 31, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
WordLift built its core technology from scratch, not on GPT-3
“So we build our technology from the ground up during research projects back in the past. And we technically analyze the content and build knowledge graph. That's what we do in simple terms. We also use GPT-III now for content generation, but that's not the cor…”
Andrea Volpini May 31, 2021 ▶ 1:57 SEO Tool Hits $1m Revenue, 90% yoy Growth, Doing $5m Seed Round Now?
Aug 24, 2022 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
WordLift Landed Italy's Top Insurer Through Investor Primo Ventures
“We sent up the first contract with the business, with the biggest insurance in Italy because of them, because they have, you know, more tactical approach, which is not common in the VC world.”
Andrea Volpini Aug 24, 2022 ▶ 15:55 Bootstrapped SEO SaaS Hits $1.8m ARR, 28% Profits!
Aug 24, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
WordLift Closed an €800,000 Funding Round in Early 2022
“So, so we decided to raise a little bit of capital and we closed the deal beginning of this year 800 thousand euros.”
Andrea Volpini Aug 24, 2022 ▶ 3:23 Bootstrapped SEO SaaS Hits $1.8m ARR, 28% Profits!
Aug 24, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
WordLift's Largest Enterprise Client Pays Approximately €300,000 Annually
“The biggest client would probably give us, I don't know, maybe, maybe, maybe 300,000 euros per year.”
Andrea Volpini Aug 24, 2022 ▶ 5:37 Bootstrapped SEO SaaS Hits $1.8m ARR, 28% Profits!
Aug 24, 2022 positive
Disclosure
WordLift Co-Founders Retained Over 80% Equity After €800k Fundraise
“And we still have more than 80% of the share.”
Andrea Volpini Aug 24, 2022 ▶ 3:34 Bootstrapped SEO SaaS Hits $1.8m ARR, 28% Profits!
Aug 24, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
WordLift Achieved a 20% Profit Margin in Q2 2022
“I mean, we have around 20% profit this in this quarter, if I look at you know, Q two.”
Andrea Volpini Aug 24, 2022 ▶ 2:58 Bootstrapped SEO SaaS Hits $1.8m ARR, 28% Profits!
Aug 24, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Enterprise Clients Generate 70% of WordLift's Revenue
“The enterprise client that runs, you know, 70% of our revenues”
Andrea Volpini Aug 24, 2022 ▶ 5:11 Bootstrapped SEO SaaS Hits $1.8m ARR, 28% Profits!
Aug 24, 2022 positive
Disclosure
WordLift Achieves an Average Customer Payback Period of 1.5 Months
“No, the payback, it's, I mean, a few months basically one 1.5 months on average.”
Andrea Volpini Aug 24, 2022 ▶ 7:09 Bootstrapped SEO SaaS Hits $1.8m ARR, 28% Profits!
Aug 24, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
WordLift Reaches 1,166 Active Subscriptions Across 1,000 Clients
“So we have more than a thousand clients at the moment. And today we, the active subscription are a 1166.”
Andrea Volpini Aug 24, 2022 ▶ 8:05 Bootstrapped SEO SaaS Hits $1.8m ARR, 28% Profits!
Aug 24, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
WordLift's Average Customer Acquisition Cost is €180 to €200
“If we look at the cohort of the, you know, average user getting a subscription for us, we're talking about 182 hundred euro for acquisition.”
Andrea Volpini Aug 24, 2022 ▶ 4:58 Bootstrapped SEO SaaS Hits $1.8m ARR, 28% Profits!
Oct 10, 2023 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Volpini: WordLift reached €1.35M in H1 2023 and targets €2.5M by year-end
“In June this year, we've done 1.3 52. So we went beyond a hundred percent growth in the first semesters. And now, you know, the numbers is kind of slightly going down, but we were targeting 2.5000000 euro by the end of the year.”
Andrea Volpini Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 4:33 AI Tool Profited $70k Last Month on $195k of Revenue. Plans to hit $3m ARR By December then Raise $5m.
Oct 10, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Latka: WordLift Raised $800k at $5.5M Post-Money Valuation in 2022
“You've raised a pre-seed round in twenty-twenty-two. I think you raised 800 K at 5.5 million post money.”
Nathan Latka Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 6:15 AI Tool Profited $70k Last Month on $195k of Revenue. Plans to hit $3m ARR By December then Raise $5m.
Oct 10, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Volpini: WordLift pivoted to knowledge graph-grounded content generation to drive growth
“The growth is coming primarily from, you know helping this company generate content with high accuracy by leveraging on the knowledge graph. So the knowledge graph is the foundation. And then on top of that, we start generating content and validating content. …”
Andrea Volpini Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 7:38 AI Tool Profited $70k Last Month on $195k of Revenue. Plans to hit $3m ARR By December then Raise $5m.
Oct 10, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Volpini: WordLift Did About $103k per Month a Year Ago
“One or three. Yeah. Around the 100.”
Andrea Volpini Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 7:18 AI Tool Profited $70k Last Month on $195k of Revenue. Plans to hit $3m ARR By December then Raise $5m.
Oct 10, 2023
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Volpini: WordLift's average enterprise client pays €5,300 per month
“Our average enterprise client you know, would have, you know, 5.3 thousand euro average monthly subscription with us.”
Andrea Volpini Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 3:56 AI Tool Profited $70k Last Month on $195k of Revenue. Plans to hit $3m ARR By December then Raise $5m.
Oct 10, 2023
Disclosure
Volpini: WordLift will sell at most 20% equity in next round
“Max, 20%. No more.”
Andrea Volpini Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 13:26 AI Tool Profited $70k Last Month on $195k of Revenue. Plans to hit $3m ARR By December then Raise $5m.
Oct 10, 2023
What-if
Volpini: WordLift would command $35M in SF versus €20M in Rome
“You know, in Europe, the evaluation are slightly lower. If we would be in San Francisco, that would be maybe a 35, but we are in Rome.”
Andrea Volpini Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 13:35 AI Tool Profited $70k Last Month on $195k of Revenue. Plans to hit $3m ARR By December then Raise $5m.
Oct 10, 2023
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Volpini: WordLift has 800 clients and closed 2022 at €1.2M revenue
“So we are around 800 clients and you know, just to give you a few numbers last year, 20, 22, we closed at 1.2 million euro you know, The final number.”
Andrea Volpini Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 4:18 AI Tool Profited $70k Last Month on $195k of Revenue. Plans to hit $3m ARR By December then Raise $5m.
Oct 10, 2023
Disclosure
WordLift seeks to raise €4M to €5M in upcoming round
“We are looking at between four and five million euro.”
Andrea Volpini Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 13:19 AI Tool Profited $70k Last Month on $195k of Revenue. Plans to hit $3m ARR By December then Raise $5m.
Oct 10, 2023 positive
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Volpini: WordLift reached an approximate 38% profit margin in August 2023
“No, we are profitable. We have a good profit. We have around I mean, if we, if I look at August, I think we are around 38 profit margin.”
Andrea Volpini Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 9:49 AI Tool Profited $70k Last Month on $195k of Revenue. Plans to hit $3m ARR By December then Raise $5m.
Oct 10, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Volpini: WordLift still holds around $780,000 of its $800,000 pre-seed
“Pretty much. We have at the moment, I think yeah, 780. I mean, it's fluctuating.”
Andrea Volpini Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 10:41 AI Tool Profited $70k Last Month on $195k of Revenue. Plans to hit $3m ARR By December then Raise $5m.
Oct 10, 2023 positive
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Volpini: WordLift Generated $195k in MRR Last Month
“So 100 and 95.”
Andrea Volpini Oct 10, 2023 ▶ 7:08 AI Tool Profited $70k Last Month on $195k of Revenue. Plans to hit $3m ARR By December then Raise $5m.
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