Martin Crow

Partner, Ceres Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Martin Courau co-founded Fincome, a real-time revenue analytics platform for SaaS businesses, raising approximately $1 million in pre-seed funding. Prior to launching Fincome and joining Ceres Capital, he worked in finance and private equity at Goldman Sachs, Roland Berger, and Montefiore Investment.

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Crow: Pre-Revenue Startups in France Can Access BPI Government Loans
“In France, you can have access to loans, even pre-revenue. You have this public answer called BPI. It's not grants. It is a loan, so you do have to pay back, but it's a loan that's specifically tailored for very early stage companies.”
Martin Crow Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 7:48 How he got his first $130/mo paying customer and $1m raised

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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Crow: Many Fincome clients face delayed or canceled funding rounds
“I mean, we're seeing a lot of companies who are our own clients having delayed series A's or canceled series B's. And that just leaves them in a really, really bad place.”
Martin Crow Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 13:14 How he got his first $130/mo paying customer and $1m raised
Disclosure
Crow: Fincome charges €100 monthly and plans to raise prices to €150–€200
“So right now we're pricing it at around a hundred euro per month. We have a small discount for the annual plan. Else it's a basic month, month to month plan. And we're going to push that price point up to probably a 150 almost 200, depending on the features, b…”
Martin Crow Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 3:18 How he got his first $130/mo paying customer and $1m raised
Disclosure
Crow: Fincome spent under $50k to build its MVP
“Honestly, not that much. I mean, we have, we raised fun, but fundamentally we have this bootstrapping culture that we try to uphold. Honestly, below 50 grand.”
Martin Crow Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 5:33 How he got his first $130/mo paying customer and $1m raised
Assertion Supported
Crow: Pre-Revenue Startups in France Can Access BPI Government Loans
“In France, you can have access to loans, even pre-revenue. You have this public answer called BPI. It's not grants. It is a loan, so you do have to pay back, but it's a loan that's specifically tailored for very early stage companies.”
Martin Crow Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 7:48 How he got his first $130/mo paying customer and $1m raised
Disclosure
Crow: Fincome's $1M Round Was 75% Equity and 25% Non-Dilutive
“It was pretty much seven, five percent sure equity, 25% on dilutive.”
Martin Crow Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 8:50 How he got his first $130/mo paying customer and $1m raised
Insight
Crow: Upfront payments before seeing software are rare in French culture
“It's not something that's very deeply rooted in French culture. They're more of a, see, then I get the checkbook out.”
Martin Crow Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 9:49 How he got his first $130/mo paying customer and $1m raised
Disclosure
Crow: Fincome is partnering with Pennylane to build its analytics platform
“We've got two lined up one with a well, the French QuickBooks, which is called Penny Lane. And we're trying to build their analytics platform because that's something they don't necessarily have in their product right now.”
Martin Crow Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 11:48 How he got his first $130/mo paying customer and $1m raised
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Crow predicts Fincome will reach 100 paying customers within six months
“Next semester, hopefully.”
Martin Crow Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 10:24 How he got his first $130/mo paying customer and $1m raised
Disclosure
Crow: Cold calling is Fincome's most effective customer acquisition channel
“What works really well is pretty much a cold calling right now. So more of a sales driven approach right now.”
Martin Crow Feb 1, 2023 ▶ 11:13 How he got his first $130/mo paying customer and $1m raised

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
How he got his first $130/mo paying customer and $1m raised Feb 1, 2023 7m
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