Pascal Gross-Niklas

Founder & CEO, ahead AG · 1 appearance on the record.

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In 1999, Pascal Grossniklaus co-founded isolutions AG, growing it into a major Swiss consulting agency. In 2020, he spun out and launched ahead AG, developing a mobile-first intranet SaaS platform designed to connect deskless and enterprise workforces.

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1 prediction · 3 assertions · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 3 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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Assertion Supported

80% of the global workforce does not use computers daily

“So world, when we look at the global workforce, 80% of the workforce are not working on a computer on a day to day basis, but everyone has a smartphone in their pocket.”

Pascal Gross-Niklas Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 1:32 $30m Agency Launches $1m SaaS Building Intranets for B2B Brands

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

Ahead claims zero customer churn as of February 2022

“So we have no churn at the moment.”

Pascal Gross-Niklas Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 13:13 $30m Agency Launches $1m SaaS Building Intranets for B2B Brands

Assertion Supported

80% of the global workforce does not use computers daily

“So world, when we look at the global workforce, 80% of the workforce are not working on a computer on a day to day basis, but everyone has a smartphone in their pocket.”

Pascal Gross-Niklas Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 1:32 $30m Agency Launches $1m SaaS Building Intranets for B2B Brands

Disclosure

Ahead's average customer pays 1,200 Swiss francs monthly

“So the average customer size is 1200 Swiss francs a month.”

Pascal Gross-Niklas Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 3:06 $30m Agency Launches $1m SaaS Building Intranets for B2B Brands

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Gross-Niklas's IT agency generates over $30M revenue with 200 employees

“This company still exists, and we are around 200 employees with a revenue of more than thirty million”

Pascal Gross-Niklas Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 5:22 $30m Agency Launches $1m SaaS Building Intranets for B2B Brands

Disclosure

Gross-Niklas's IT agency invested $700,000 to spin out Ahead

“Well, this was around 700 K.”

Pascal Gross-Niklas Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 6:42 $30m Agency Launches $1m SaaS Building Intranets for B2B Brands

Disclosure

Ahead raised $500,000 at a $5M cap from friends and family

“When we founded the company in 2020 for the go to market, we raised some money from family, friends, and fools. Half a 1,500,000.”

Pascal Gross-Niklas Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 7:26 $30m Agency Launches $1m SaaS Building Intranets for B2B Brands

Disclosure

Ahead generated approximately $21,000 in monthly revenue in February 2021

“Yeah, we were around 21 K.”

Pascal Gross-Niklas Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 9:48 $30m Agency Launches $1m SaaS Building Intranets for B2B Brands

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Ahead aims to reach $1M to $2M revenue by late 2022

“We want to again double our revenue and yeah, we would Hope to go close to one to two million by end of 2022.”

Pascal Gross-Niklas Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 11:56 $30m Agency Launches $1m SaaS Building Intranets for B2B Brands

Disclosure

Ahead has almost no crossover customers from its parent agency

“So we almost have no customers from the agency. Because these are, is another type of customers.”

Pascal Gross-Niklas Feb 15, 2022 ▶ 9:15 $30m Agency Launches $1m SaaS Building Intranets for B2B Brands

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
$30m Agency Launches $1m SaaS Building Intranets for B2B Brands	Feb 15, 2022	6m

Pascal Gross-Niklas

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