Pini Yakuel

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

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Yakuel co-founded Optimove in 2009, originally bootstrapping the customer data and retention marketing SaaS platform before taking on institutional growth capital. He pioneered AI-driven customer-led marketing and introduced the Positionless Marketing framework to eliminate operational silos in campaign orchestration.

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Insight

Yakuel: Enterprise SaaS revenue per employee typically ranges from $150K to $220K

“Usually there's like a metric that says, okay, so how much you're making per employee is like SAS revenue per employee. And typically that number, you know, goes between 150,000 to 220, something like that.”

Pini Yakuel Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 6:50 1066 Optimove CEO: "Conditions Were Right To Stop Bootstrapping w/ $20m Raise"

Disclosure

Optimove bootstrapped for eight years before raising a $20M growth round

“We've been bootstrapping all the way to, like, a year and a half ago, in which we took our first round of growth funding of twenty million dollars.”

Pini Yakuel Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 9:30 1066 Optimove CEO: "Conditions Were Right To Stop Bootstrapping w/ $20m Raise"

Insight

Yakuel: Raising capital provides credibility and stock value for M&A

“There's a few more things you're getting from a, from fundraising, right? You're getting an external credibility that you never, I've never had as a bootstrap kind of like for eight, eight years. And you're getting the ability to buy companies all of a sudden,…”

Pini Yakuel Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 12:27 1066 Optimove CEO: "Conditions Were Right To Stop Bootstrapping w/ $20m Raise"