Suzanne Lauritzen

Co-founder & Board Member, raffle.ai · 2 appearances on the record.

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Suzanne Lauritzen is a Danish entrepreneur who co-founded LogBuy and raffle.ai, an enterprise search engine powered by NLP and machine learning. She also backs early-stage Nordic tech startups through angel syndicates, founded the ExitWomen network, and teaches entrepreneurship and innovation.

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Lauritzen: raffle.ai's previous funding round was approximately $3M
“Well, our last funding round was about three million dollars.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 4:27 AI Powered Internal Search Tool Grows 200%, Breaks $1m Run Rate, $15m Valuation in 2020

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Disclosure
Lauritzen: raffle.ai employee warrants only vest upon 50% company exit
“It works the way that you have you have the option to, or you have warrants that will be released the day that we actually exit, which is the day where we sell more than 50% of the company. So you have to stay to the end, so to speak, or to the day that we exi…”
Suzanne Lauritzen Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 6:02 AI Powered Internal Search Tool Grows 200%, Breaks $1m Run Rate, $15m Valuation in 2020
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Lauridsen: Raffle.ai Sold Almost 50% Equity Across Early Rounds
“We have given up almost 50%.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Nov 3, 2020 ▶ 11:33 Raffle.ai Raises $3.4m for Customer Support Automation, 7 Enterprise Customers $35k ACV's
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Lauridsen: Raffle.ai can reach $1.5M ARR by October 2021
“Well I would like to go to around 1.5 million dollars annual occurring. And I think that's possible in October next year.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Nov 3, 2020 ▶ 14:28 Raffle.ai Raises $3.4m for Customer Support Automation, 7 Enterprise Customers $35k ACV's
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Lauritzen: raffle.ai has 50 paying enterprise customers
“We have around 50 total you know, big corporates. We have more customers than that, but paying customers and big corporates like enterprise cost customers are 50.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 2:56 AI Powered Internal Search Tool Grows 200%, Breaks $1m Run Rate, $15m Valuation in 2020
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Lauritzen: raffle.ai's average annual contract value is $25,000
“The contract value today is about 25,000 a year. No. Sorry. Dollars. Dollars. 25 dollars. 25,000 dollars.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 3:24 AI Powered Internal Search Tool Grows 200%, Breaks $1m Run Rate, $15m Valuation in 2020
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Lauritzen: raffle.ai has crossed a $1M revenue run rate
“Oh yeah. We have passed a million. Yeah.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 4:15 AI Powered Internal Search Tool Grows 200%, Breaks $1m Run Rate, $15m Valuation in 2020
Disclosure
Lauritzen: raffle.ai's Series A is led by a US VC
“First of all, it's actually going to be an American it's a U S venture capital firm.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 5:24 AI Powered Internal Search Tool Grows 200%, Breaks $1m Run Rate, $15m Valuation in 2020
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Lauritzen: raffle.ai cut customer onboarding from two months to two days
“We can now implement the customer within two days which we were maybe two months doing, you know, just one and a half years ago, it would, Take us two months to actually implement the customer.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 7:20 AI Powered Internal Search Tool Grows 200%, Breaks $1m Run Rate, $15m Valuation in 2020
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Lauritzen: raffle.ai grew ARR by 305% since October 2020
“But still we have grown 305% in revenue or in ARR since then.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 8:24 AI Powered Internal Search Tool Grows 200%, Breaks $1m Run Rate, $15m Valuation in 2020
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Lauritzen: raffle.ai maintains a 5:1 LTV to CAC ratio
“Our LTV or our customer acquisition cost is five, I think at the moment. And that is only because we have an LTV only on three years that we calculated with. So I've learned that five years is actually normal. So so basically our the formula should be better. …”
Suzanne Lauritzen Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 13:15 AI Powered Internal Search Tool Grows 200%, Breaks $1m Run Rate, $15m Valuation in 2020
Disclosure
Lauridsen: Raffle.ai employs 18 engineers and five sales reps
“Yes, we actually have 18 engineers and five in sales up until now, so it's yeah.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Nov 3, 2020 ▶ 2:57 Raffle.ai Raises $3.4m for Customer Support Automation, 7 Enterprise Customers $35k ACV's
Disclosure
Lauridsen: Raffle.ai launched dedicated sales team two months ago
“We just I mean, we just started the sales department actually just two months ago. So that's pretty new. And up until then it was just me selling.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Nov 3, 2020 ▶ 3:13 Raffle.ai Raises $3.4m for Customer Support Automation, 7 Enterprise Customers $35k ACV's
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Lauridsen: Raffle.ai Average Contract Value Is $35,000 per Year
“An average per year, I would rather say that's 35,000 US.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Nov 3, 2020 ▶ 5:26 Raffle.ai Raises $3.4m for Customer Support Automation, 7 Enterprise Customers $35k ACV's
Disclosure
Lauridsen: Raffle.ai Quotas Ramp to Three Closed Accounts Monthly
“Well, we just have a quota today that says one client a month, and then that's going up to two clients a month within, you know, after three months and then after six months is three clients a month.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Nov 3, 2020 ▶ 5:49 Raffle.ai Raises $3.4m for Customer Support Automation, 7 Enterprise Customers $35k ACV's
Disclosure
Lauridsen: Raffle.ai First-Year Sales OTE Is Around $150,000
“You'll probably make you'll probably make about A 150,000 US.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Nov 3, 2020 ▶ 7:15 Raffle.ai Raises $3.4m for Customer Support Automation, 7 Enterprise Customers $35k ACV's
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Lauridsen: Raffle.ai burns $160,000 per month
“I have a 160,000 us in burn each month.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Nov 3, 2020 ▶ 13:36 Raffle.ai Raises $3.4m for Customer Support Automation, 7 Enterprise Customers $35k ACV's
Disclosure
Lauridsen: Raffle.ai aims to raise Series A in September 2021
“Yes, we are, and we are going for an A round in September next year.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Nov 3, 2020 ▶ 14:05 Raffle.ai Raises $3.4m for Customer Support Automation, 7 Enterprise Customers $35k ACV's
Assertion Supported
Lauritzen: raffle.ai's previous funding round was approximately $3M
“Well, our last funding round was about three million dollars.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 4:27 AI Powered Internal Search Tool Grows 200%, Breaks $1m Run Rate, $15m Valuation in 2020
Disclosure
Lauritzen: raffle.ai reserved 9% equity for employee options pre-Series A
“We have reserved nine percent up until now.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 11:59 AI Powered Internal Search Tool Grows 200%, Breaks $1m Run Rate, $15m Valuation in 2020
Disclosure
Lauritzen: raffle.ai plans to delay US expansion until 2023
“But not, I don't think we're going to do it right now. I think we're going to do it in, in, in, in 23. So we are first going to expand in, in Europe.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 12:40 AI Powered Internal Search Tool Grows 200%, Breaks $1m Run Rate, $15m Valuation in 2020
Disclosure
Lauridsen: Raffle.ai has raised $3.5M in total funding
“3.5 million us.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Nov 3, 2020 ▶ 3:42 Raffle.ai Raises $3.4m for Customer Support Automation, 7 Enterprise Customers $35k ACV's
Disclosure
Lauridsen: Raffle.ai raised about $200k in its first angel round
“That was about 200 thousand.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Nov 3, 2020 ▶ 4:24 Raffle.ai Raises $3.4m for Customer Support Automation, 7 Enterprise Customers $35k ACV's
Disclosure
Lauridsen: Raffle.ai raised angel round with zero product and no clients
“We didn't have any clients. Of course, we didn't have any product. Basically, we didn't have anything. So, but we had the idea and we had the right team, I guess.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Nov 3, 2020 ▶ 5:08 Raffle.ai Raises $3.4m for Customer Support Automation, 7 Enterprise Customers $35k ACV's
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Lauridsen: Raffle.ai has seven enterprise customers
“We have seven customers today.”
Suzanne Lauritzen Nov 3, 2020 ▶ 10:20 Raffle.ai Raises $3.4m for Customer Support Automation, 7 Enterprise Customers $35k ACV's

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EpisodeDateSpeaking time
AI Powered Internal Search Tool Grows 200%, Breaks $1m Run Rate, $15m Valuation in 2020 Feb 16, 2022 7m
Raffle.ai Raises $3.4m for Customer Support Automation, 7 Enterprise Customers $35k ACV's Nov 3, 2020 7m
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