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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.”
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.”
Insight
Volpini: Enriched knowledge graph data forms the foundation of an enterprise AI stack
“Of course, the data that you bring in, it's the first asset, but we have to improve it because otherwise there's no SEO value. But once we improve it, then there is not just SEO value. You have something way more valuable, which is you're going to build your A…”
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.”
Insight
Knowledge Graphs Represent the New Sitemap for Modern SEO
“A knowledge graph is kind of a starting point for your AI strategy, but it's also important for Google because it represents a new sitemap. In terms of, you know, what are the concepts that matter for the business? How do we index them? What is the data, you k…”
Opinion
Volpini: WordLift is valued at around €5 million
“Around five... Five million euro.”
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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.”
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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.”
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.”
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Volpini: WordLift Generated $195k in MRR Last Month
“So 100 and 95.”
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. …”
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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.”
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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.”
Disclosure
WordLift seeks to raise €4M to €5M in upcoming round
“We are looking at between four and five million euro.”
Disclosure
Volpini: WordLift will sell at most 20% equity in next round
“Max, 20%. No more.”
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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.”
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.”
Disclosure
WordLift Co-Founders Retained Over 80% Equity After €800k Fundraise
“And we still have more than 80% of the share.”
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.”
Disclosure
Enterprise Clients Generate 70% of WordLift's Revenue
“The enterprise client that runs, you know, 70% of our revenues”
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.”
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.”
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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.”
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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.”
