Igor Stepanovich

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

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Igor Stjepanovic is an Australian tech entrepreneur who founded GIS People and spun out Gruntify, a field operations SaaS platform. A former refugee from Bosnia and Herzegovina, he bootstrapped Gruntify to several million dollars in ARR before expanding to enterprise and government clients globally.

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11 assertions · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 11 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are 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.

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Stepanovich: Gruntify Is 100% Bootstrapped
“We are at 100% bootstrapped at the moment”
Igor Stepanovich Feb 24, 2022 ▶ 6:24 Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS

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

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Stepanovich: Gruntify does not lose any clients once acquired
“Our we literally don't lose any clients. Once we win them, they stick with us.”
Igor Stepanovich Feb 24, 2022 ▶ 13:03 Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS
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Gruntify reached $3M ARR with zero sales team or paid marketing
“At the moment, no. Correct. All organic.”
Igor Stepanovich Feb 24, 2022 ▶ 12:57 Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS
Disclosure
Stepanovich: Most Gruntify customers pay $5,000 to $7,000 per month
“Most, most people fit within about 5000 to about 7000 a month.”
Igor Stepanovich Feb 24, 2022 ▶ 3:04 Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS
Disclosure
Stepanovich: Average $6k/mo Gruntify plan covers 500 to 600 seats
“That's approximately 506 hundred seats.”
Igor Stepanovich Feb 24, 2022 ▶ 3:16 Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS
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Gruntify generates roughly $250,000 in monthly recurring revenue
“Yeah, well, yes, sort of it's more about 250 at the moment, 250 K, but that's growing, and we are obviously this year also launching in Europe, which is a big market opportunity for us as well as we are starting to grow in Singapore, so across Asia, Asian mark…”
Igor Stepanovich Feb 24, 2022 ▶ 5:05 Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS
Assertion Supported
Stepanovich: Gruntify Is 100% Bootstrapped
“We are at 100% bootstrapped at the moment”
Igor Stepanovich Feb 24, 2022 ▶ 6:24 Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS
Disclosure
Stepanovich: Gruntify Aims to Raise $5M to $10M for International Growth
“We're looking to raise between five and ten million, hopefully to grow internationally.”
Igor Stepanovich Feb 24, 2022 ▶ 7:03 Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS
Disclosure
Stepanovich expects $20M to $25M valuation for Gruntify's first funding round
“Well, that really, I guess, you know, depends on, on on the arrangements that we negotiate with our investors. You're looking probably about 20% of the business, 20, 25 maximum.”
Igor Stepanovich Feb 24, 2022 ▶ 10:48 Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS
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Stepanovich: Large Gruntify clients expanded from 100 to over 1,000 licenses
“We've had with some of our large clients, we've had basically clients come in and, Purchase say a hundred licenses. Now they're over a thousand.”
Igor Stepanovich Feb 24, 2022 ▶ 13:26 Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS
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Stepanovich: Gruntify's clients include Modus, CoreLogic, and City of San Jose
“We have clients in the United States and in Australia. For example, we have Modus a company in the United States that's rolling out five G hardware all over this country. We have CoreLogic as one of our property clients, and we have multiple government clients…”
Igor Stepanovich Feb 24, 2022 ▶ 1:37 Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS
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Stepanovich: San Jose uses Gruntify for fire and emergency response
“Yeah, well, they actually have multiple uses for our technology, including responses to the fires in the city and emergencies, as well as various housing related use cases.”
Igor Stepanovich Feb 24, 2022 ▶ 2:09 Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS
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Stepanovich: Gruntify has around 50 to 60 paying clients
“So we are about, we have about 50, 60 clients.”
Igor Stepanovich Feb 24, 2022 ▶ 4:39 Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS
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Stepanovich: Gruntify was doing about half its revenue a year ago
“Probably about a half, if that.”
Igor Stepanovich Feb 24, 2022 ▶ 5:42 Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS
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Stepanovich: GIS People Generated $3M–$4M in 2016 to Fund Gruntify
“No, it was about three or four million dollars at the time. So we invested part of that I guess revenue in, in this Gruntify business because we noticed we started receiving a lot of inquiries about field operations and helping clients automate their workflows…”
Igor Stepanovich Feb 24, 2022 ▶ 9:54 Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS
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Stepanovich: Gruntify employs 18 to 19 engineers and product staff
“Other than myself the chief financial officer and the chief operational COO there would be effectively all of them are software engineers, testers. We have we use a scrum methodology and agile. So we have, you know, scrum masters and product owners and those k…”
Igor Stepanovich Feb 24, 2022 ▶ 12:28 Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS

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EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Bootstrapped to $3m, Now Raising to Grow Field Operations Management SaaS Feb 24, 2022 9m
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