Ron Geva

Co-founder & CEO, Webz.io · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ran Geva leads Webz.io, a web intelligence platform that extracts unstructured data from the open, deep, and dark web. Previously, he founded the discussion search engine Omgili and co-founded social media analytics company Buzzilla.

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The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Geva: Google is a 'closed garden' that blocks machine access to search

“Google is a closed garden in that sense. They are excellent for it, Humans, but for machines that want to tap into their index, there's no way.”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 7:04 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

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What they said18 Episodes1

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

Disclosure

Geva: Webhose puts no effort into upselling existing clients

“We don't put any effort on upselling. Currently, at least we will in the future, but currently I want more of Expand my market reach and not necessarily you know, optimizing our current clients.”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 13:17 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Opinion

Geva: Webhose is doing to web data what Amazon did to hosting

“We basically, we see us doing to date web data or data provisioning what Amazon to do, did to server hosting.”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 2:44 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Assertion Supported

Geva: Google is a 'closed garden' that blocks machine access to search

“Google is a closed garden in that sense. They are excellent for it, Humans, but for machines that want to tap into their index, there's no way.”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 7:04 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Geva: Webhose has never lost an enterprise client except to bankruptcy

“On the enterprise Part. So the higher the amount they pay, we see near zero churn. We have clients, I told you, we started back in oh seven with providing this data. So we have clients going back in oh seven. We never lost an enterprise client unless he went o…”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 11:39 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Insight

Geva: API data customers upgrade organically without sales pressure

“Because we are providing an API, the more clients they have, the more API calls they will need. So they basically are working for us in a sense, the more successful they are, the more API calls they will need. They will upgrade organically their plans. I don't…”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 14:30 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Insight

Geva: API products avoid churn because they require no human intervention

“Since we are an API, we are in the backend and no human is, is, is intervening. So it's not like you have a system that, a SaaS system that the guy finds out one day that he stopped using the system and then he cancels. As long as we're doing a good job, We wi…”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 16:20 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Geva: Webhose averages $1,000 to $3,000 monthly revenue per customer

“So, the average would be between 1000 to three, but we have enterprises that pay under 10th of thousands per month, and we have, and it really, it doesn't really depend on the company.”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 3:18 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Geva: Webhose has tens of thousands of mostly freemium users

“We have tens of thousands of users. Not all of them are paying. A lot of them are freemium”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 3:44 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Assertion Supported

Geva: No Israeli VC had ever invested in brand monitoring

“Actually never, no, no Israeli VC ever invested in this field.”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 5:30 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Geva: Enterprise clients account for about 70% of Webhose revenue

“A few dozens of enterprises that are about 30, about 70% of the income are enterprise.”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 7:58 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

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Geva: Webhose has around 300 to 350 paying customers

“Yeah, about 303 150 paying customers.”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 8:09 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Geva: Webhose expects around 70% revenue growth in 2018

“Now we expect to grow about 70%.”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 8:25 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Geva: Webhose reaches roughly $260,000 in MRR

“MRR about 260,000 dollars.”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 9:14 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Geva: Webhose's annual net revenue churn is probably under 5%

“Oh, less than five percent, probably.”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 12:43 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Disclosure

Geva: Webhose uses freemium SaaS model without long-term contracts

“It's a SAS or data service subscription-based. You can go ahead and It's a freemium model, basically. Anyone can sign up for free, get access to 1000 API calls for free, and then you can upgrade, downgrade, cancel any time. We don't shackle you into long-term…”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 1:51 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Geva: Webhose operates with a team of about 20

“We're about 20.”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 4:03 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Disclosure

Geva: Omgili raised $600K seed from an Israeli VC

“Eventually a nice VC from Israel was interested to invest seed funding of about 600,000 dollars.”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 5:15 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Disclosure

Geva: Webhose spends $4,000 per month on direct paid advertising

“4000 dollars, not a lot.”

Ron Geva Jul 31, 2018 ▶ 10:19 1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
1102 WebHose CEO on understanding unstructured data, passes $2.3m in ARR	Jul 31, 2018	10m

Ron Geva

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