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Mikus Opelts

Founder & CEO, Giraffe360 · 1 appearance on the record.

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Mikus Opelts is the co-founder and CEO of Giraffe360, a proptech company that manufactures proprietary robotic cameras and AI software for real estate photography. Before Giraffe360, he launched the visualization production agency Giraffe Visual.

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Disclosure
Giraffe360 self-funded $200k from service revenue before raising $500k
“200,000 we invested probably from our own budgets, and, ah, and, ah, we pushed away from our service business income, and now we just raise a half a million to get our product development further.”
Mikus Opelts Feb 9, 2017 ▶ 3:24 EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Quickly with CEO Mikus Opelts
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Opelts took 100 investor meetings to close Giraffe360's $500k note
“A hundred.”
Mikus Opelts Feb 9, 2017 ▶ 4:17 EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Quickly with CEO Mikus Opelts
Disclosure
Giraffe360 gives hardware away for free, charges £53 per virtual tour
“So we give our cameras out for free. We give to the clients who mostly has large volume of properties. So the first group of clients are real estate brokers. So, and then we charge per property created with our camera. That's basically at one apartment virtual…”
Mikus Opelts Feb 9, 2017 ▶ 5:19 EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Quickly with CEO Mikus Opelts
Disclosure
Giraffe360 requires a 20-tour monthly minimum to qualify for free hardware
“But there's only a minimum volume that you have to do with the camera per month, and that's 20 apartments.”
Mikus Opelts Feb 9, 2017 ▶ 6:21 EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Quickly with CEO Mikus Opelts
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Giraffe360 to expand from 10 to 60 deployed cameras in February 2017
“Right now we are, we have 10, our first cameras out in the market, and the big news is that next 50 cameras is coming into the market on the 10th of February.”
Mikus Opelts Feb 9, 2017 ▶ 7:12 EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Quickly with CEO Mikus Opelts
Disclosure
Giraffe360 will pause onboarding for three months to test new hardware units
“After the first 50 cameras, we will let them work for three months, and we will not be available for any other subscriptions, but in three months we are launching next hundred subscriptions.”
Mikus Opelts Feb 9, 2017 ▶ 8:37 EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Quickly with CEO Mikus Opelts
Disclosure
Giraffe360's engineering team builds its early camera units by hand in-office
“We do most of this stuff ourselves in our office, by our own hands, by our engineering and technical team. So we, it's basically hand-built cameras.”
Mikus Opelts Feb 9, 2017 ▶ 9:08 EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Quickly with CEO Mikus Opelts
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Giraffe360's hand-built cameras cost roughly $5,000 each to manufacture
“The range is definitely, is there what you mentioned”
Mikus Opelts Feb 9, 2017 ▶ 9:49 EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Quickly with CEO Mikus Opelts
Disclosure
One lead investor provided 90% of Giraffe360's $500k seed round
“Well, one company, there was one add-on investor, so basically, 90% of investment is done by one company. So, but we had, like, some five okay offers on the table, so we had something to choose from, and we choose the partners that we believe we can go”
Mikus Opelts Feb 9, 2017 ▶ 4:23 EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Quickly with CEO Mikus Opelts

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EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Qui Feb 9, 2017 9m
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