Heiko Schwarz

1 appearance on the record.

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Insight
Schwarz Warns Missing Venture Debt KPIs Creates Severe Founder Stress
“I had some thought and experience exchange with other founders who did venture depths, and as soon as they cross or match and miss some of the important KPIs, these players might become really, really stressful.”
Heiko Schwarz Sep 29, 2019 ▶ 13:08 1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers
Disclosure
Schwarz: Risk Methods pricing ranges from $2K to over $100K monthly
“So our offering starts with close to two grants a month for the smaller enterprises and it goes direction and even crossing six digit monthly fees.”
Heiko Schwarz Sep 29, 2019 ▶ 5:04 1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers
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Schwarz: Risk Methods averages around $5,000 per month per customer
“So on average, we are around the area of five K a month.”
Heiko Schwarz Sep 29, 2019 ▶ 6:31 1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers
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Schwarz: Risk Methods' average $5K/mo customer has $2B in turnover
“Their typical size is in the area of two billion turnover.”
Heiko Schwarz Sep 29, 2019 ▶ 6:46 1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers
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Schwarz: Risk Methods serves 430 enterprise customers in Europe and North America
“So we, today, as of today, we serve from customer base of 430 enterprises across, which are headquartered across Europe and North America.”
Heiko Schwarz Sep 29, 2019 ▶ 9:17 1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers
Disclosure
Schwarz: Risk Methods co-founders invested a six-figure sum of personal savings
“So we put in a six digit figure into the foundation.”
Heiko Schwarz Sep 29, 2019 ▶ 10:17 1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers
Disclosure
Risk Methods Has Raised Over $20M in Total Funding
“So far we raised north of twenty million dollars through in series A and series B. We went through in series B springtime last year and we raised around fifteen million dollars into the series B.”
Heiko Schwarz Sep 29, 2019 ▶ 10:50 1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers
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Schwarz: Risk Methods maintains double-digit negative annual revenue churn
“Well, I, I'm not going to disclose the Precise figure, but we have a negative and two-digit negative churn, and which is an amazing, amazing sign in terms of customer satisfaction.”
Heiko Schwarz Sep 29, 2019 ▶ 14:06 1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers
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Schwarz: Seat and volume expansions represent only ~1% of upsells
“Yeah, but that's not the, I think this is kind of representing maybe one percent of the upsells.”
Heiko Schwarz Sep 29, 2019 ▶ 16:48 1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers
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riskmethods Achieves CAC Payback Period Under 12 Months
“Our RI is usually below 12 months payback period.”
Heiko Schwarz Sep 29, 2019 ▶ 17:14 1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers
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riskmethods Reports 6x LTV-to-CAC Ratio
“It's a decent multiple of six as of today.”
Heiko Schwarz Sep 29, 2019 ▶ 17:43 1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers
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riskmethods Generates 70% of New Business in H2
“We usually do 70% of our new business in, in the second half of the year, so it's really like an, Budget cycle driven year end rally.”
Heiko Schwarz Sep 29, 2019 ▶ 18:19 1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers
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Schwarz: Risk Methods crossed 140 employees
“So we just crossed 100 40 employees”
Heiko Schwarz Sep 29, 2019 ▶ 8:31 1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
1527 Supply Chain Risk Company Hits $7m in ARR, 130 Customers Sep 29, 2019 12m
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