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Alessio Alionço

Founder and CEO, Pipefy · 1 appearance on the record.

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Alessio Alionço is the founder and CEO of Pipefy, a business process automation and workflow orchestration platform launched in 2015. Previously, he founded the local services marketplace Acessozero, which was acquired by Apontador in 2012.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 7 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 7 assertions · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 7 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Alessio argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Alionço: Pipefy raised a $2.4M seed round from Trinity and Redpoint
“We raised a 2.4 million from really good investors, like the founders of Zendesk, Trinity Ventures, Redpoint, eVentures, Valor Capital, and we ran two syndicates at Funders Club and at AngelList as well.”
Alessio Alionço Apr 18, 2017 ▶ 8:45 633: Pipefy $2.6M Raised, $50k MRR, Helping 400 Customers Organize Processes with CEO Alessio Alionco

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Everything Alessio Alionço said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Alionço: Small businesses lack the process maturity to pay for management tools
“We discovered that small businesses, they don't have mature processes enough to be painful enough to be willing to pay. That's why so many test management tools are free or they have a hard time trying to monetize.”
Alessio Alionço Apr 18, 2017 ▶ 7:40 633: Pipefy $2.6M Raised, $50k MRR, Helping 400 Customers Organize Processes with CEO Alessio Alionco
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pipefy achieves 10% month-over-month net negative churn among enterprise clients
“And since then, like, for, with those companies, we are growing, we have like, 10% negative return month over month.”
Alessio Alionço Apr 18, 2017 ▶ 8:11 633: Pipefy $2.6M Raised, $50k MRR, Helping 400 Customers Organize Processes with CEO Alessio Alionco
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Accenture expanded from four to 400 Pipefy seats in six months
“Most of those companies, they, a really good example that with Accenture, they started with four users in six months, they got more than 400 users inside the platform, and they are even growing a lot.”
Alessio Alionço Apr 18, 2017 ▶ 11:03 633: Pipefy $2.6M Raised, $50k MRR, Helping 400 Customers Organize Processes with CEO Alessio Alionco
Insight
Alionço: Top-tier Series A rounds demand at least $100k MRR
“You need to be performing well, you need to have a really good ACV, you need to show how you are scaling up your sales team. And one of the most basic APIs is to be over at least 100 KMR. If you want to raise a really good Tuesday, at least with a top tier inv…”
Alessio Alionço Apr 18, 2017 ▶ 13:03 633: Pipefy $2.6M Raised, $50k MRR, Helping 400 Customers Organize Processes with CEO Alessio Alionco
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Pipefy customers pay an average of $200 per month
“Around 200 bucks.”
Alessio Alionço Apr 18, 2017 ▶ 4:09 633: Pipefy $2.6M Raised, $50k MRR, Helping 400 Customers Organize Processes with CEO Alessio Alionco
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pipefy reaches over 400 paying corporate customers
“Now we have more than four hundred paying companies.”
Alessio Alionço Apr 18, 2017 ▶ 5:47 633: Pipefy $2.6M Raised, $50k MRR, Helping 400 Customers Organize Processes with CEO Alessio Alionco
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pipefy projects $50k to $60k MRR by the end of Q1 2017
“We are like the probably will be around like 50 to 60 to the end of this first quarter.”
Alessio Alionço Apr 18, 2017 ▶ 6:35 633: Pipefy $2.6M Raised, $50k MRR, Helping 400 Customers Organize Processes with CEO Alessio Alionco
Assertion Supported
Alionço: Pipefy raised a $2.4M seed round from Trinity and Redpoint
“We raised a 2.4 million from really good investors, like the founders of Zendesk, Trinity Ventures, Redpoint, eVentures, Valor Capital, and we ran two syndicates at Funders Club and at AngelList as well.”
Alessio Alionço Apr 18, 2017 ▶ 8:45 633: Pipefy $2.6M Raised, $50k MRR, Helping 400 Customers Organize Processes with CEO Alessio Alionco
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pipefy's customer acquisition cost is around $900 per company
“Our overall cost of acquisition is around like, 900 dollars per company.”
Alessio Alionço Apr 18, 2017 ▶ 10:27 633: Pipefy $2.6M Raised, $50k MRR, Helping 400 Customers Organize Processes with CEO Alessio Alionco
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pipefy has a customer acquisition cost payback period of 3.8 months
“Yeah, exactly. 3.8.”
Alessio Alionço Apr 18, 2017 ▶ 10:37 633: Pipefy $2.6M Raised, $50k MRR, Helping 400 Customers Organize Processes with CEO Alessio Alionco
Disclosure
Pipefy targets scaling MRR from $20k to $200k in 2017
“So we want to come from the 20 K we heading in the end of the year to 200 K”
Alessio Alionço Apr 18, 2017 ▶ 14:01 633: Pipefy $2.6M Raised, $50k MRR, Helping 400 Customers Organize Processes with CEO Alessio Alionco

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
633: Pipefy $2.6M Raised, $50k MRR, Helping 400 Customers Organize Processes with CEO Ales Apr 18, 2017 9m
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