Chris Matty

Founder & CRO, Versium · 1 appearance on the record.

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Chris Matty co-founded Versium in 2012 to provide automated predictive analytics, identity resolution, and data enrichment for marketing and sales. Before Versium, he held executive and business development positions at tech companies including InfoSpace and Intelius.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 8 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

9 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 insight · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 8 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 Chris 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
Matty: Accenture Is Now the Fastest-Growing Digital Agency
“Accenture is the fastest growing digital agency now.”
Chris Matty Mar 29, 2019 ▶ 6:30 1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre

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

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Matty: 40% to 50% of CRM data is unusable
“For example, 40 to 50% of data in a CRM is not usable.”
Chris Matty Mar 29, 2019 ▶ 1:05 1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Matty: Versium drives substantial growth via agency channel partners
“We do have a small direct sales team, but we're seeing substantial growth using channel strategies and partners to get to market.”
Chris Matty Mar 29, 2019 ▶ 4:10 1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre
Assertion Supported
Matty: Accenture Is Now the Fastest-Growing Digital Agency
“Accenture is the fastest growing digital agency now.”
Chris Matty Mar 29, 2019 ▶ 6:30 1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre
Opinion
Matty: B2B digital ad tech is nascent due to consumer-focused targeting
“The B to B ad tech arena in terms of digital has been pretty nascent because most of the targeting in the digital ad tech is tied to consumer entity data.”
Chris Matty Mar 29, 2019 ▶ 10:07 1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Matty: Versium overlays consumer data onto business data to 4x reach
“We have the unique ability to overlay consumer entity data on the business data that allows us to target an increased reach by four X.”
Chris Matty Mar 29, 2019 ▶ 10:15 1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Matty: Versium owns its data and doesn't license from Acxiom or D&B
“So what's interesting, we own all of our data, right? So we're not licensing data from the axioms and DMVs. In fact, we supply data to companies like that.”
Chris Matty Mar 29, 2019 ▶ 12:15 1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre
Insight
Matty: Pure data businesses receive commodity multiples unlike tech companies
“So data is a commodity. If you're just a day in a business, you're going to be treated as a commodity. If you're a technology company, you're going to get the multiples.”
Chris Matty Mar 29, 2019 ▶ 14:16 1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Matty: Versium owns over 1.5 trillion data attributes
“So we own over 1.5 trillion data attributes, and we're able to overlay that onto the existing data that organization has.”
Chris Matty Mar 29, 2019 ▶ 1:38 1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Versium pricing spans $1k to $30k monthly across three tiers
“We've got a self-service tool with the average price point is a thousand. Then we go to sort of mid to per month per month. Mid-tier markets. What's where it's five to seven. And then the big enterprise grade, which is, you know, 20 to 30 grant based upon volu…”
Chris Matty Mar 29, 2019 ▶ 2:39 1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre
Disclosure
Versium raised $4.2M and achieved seven consecutive profitable quarters
“We've raised two seed rounds. So a very capital efficient 4.2 million dollars over two years. The last round was two years ago and we just launched our seventh consecutive quarter of being profitable.”
Chris Matty Mar 29, 2019 ▶ 4:27 1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Versium has 300 API users and 50 enterprise clients
“We got 300 companies using our APIs directly. We've got About 250 to 300 on a monthly basis that are the small mid-tier folks. And then we got about 50 enterprise clients that are paying us the bigger money.”
Chris Matty Mar 29, 2019 ▶ 5:00 1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Versium reaches $7M run rate and targets $8M-$9M this year
“We're at a seven million run rate right now. Targeting about 9,000,008 to nine million this year.”
Chris Matty Mar 29, 2019 ▶ 5:51 1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre
Disclosure
Matty: Versium Aiming to Raise $15M to $25M
“Somewhere between 15 to 25, depending on the structure of the deal.”
Chris Matty Mar 29, 2019 ▶ 15:23 1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
1343 Data Cleaning and Analytics Tool Passes $7m ARR, Raising $20m on $80m Pre Mar 29, 2019 10m
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