Toby Olshanetsky

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

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Toby Olshanetsky is an Israeli technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of prooV, a platform enabling enterprises to evaluate proofs-of-concept with software startups. In 2024, he co-founded AcumenAI, an artificial intelligence security company developing safeguards for enterprise interactions with AI agents.

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8 assertions · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 6 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

Olshanetsky: Proov Has Raised $21.1 Million in Total Venture Funding

“21.1.”

Toby Olshanetsky Jan 17, 2018 ▶ 6:08 907 SaaS: How Proov Was Able to Raise $21m Pre Revenue

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What they said12 Episodes1

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Olshanetsky: Proov has between 10 and 100 paying enterprise customers

“Tens of enterprises. Tens of enterprises. It's more than a 10.”

Toby Olshanetsky Jan 17, 2018 ▶ 8:27 907 SaaS: How Proov Was Able to Raise $21m Pre Revenue

Disclosure

Proov Raised $21M Pre-Revenue by Having Investors Interview Free Users

“And our investors, when they did the due diligence, they want to speak with customers and we gave them a very big customer list and they spoke with them and they understood how, you know, all the pains that we are solving them and how much money we are saving …”

Toby Olshanetsky Jan 17, 2018 ▶ 14:35 907 SaaS: How Proov Was Able to Raise $21m Pre Revenue

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Olshanetsky: Proov Charges Enterprises Tens to Hundreds of Thousands Annually

“The enterprises are paying us between 10,010 of thousands of US dollars up to hundreds of thousands of US dollars.”

Toby Olshanetsky Jan 17, 2018 ▶ 1:44 907 SaaS: How Proov Was Able to Raise $21m Pre Revenue

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Olshanetsky: Proov Average Annual Contract Value Is $95,000

“95.”

Toby Olshanetsky Jan 17, 2018 ▶ 2:10 907 SaaS: How Proov Was Able to Raise $21m Pre Revenue

Assertion Supported

Olshanetsky: Proov Has Raised $21.1 Million in Total Venture Funding

“21.1.”

Toby Olshanetsky Jan 17, 2018 ▶ 6:08 907 SaaS: How Proov Was Able to Raise $21m Pre Revenue

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Olshanetsky: Proov hosts 125 enterprises and rejected two-thirds of 3,500 startup applicants

“We have a 125 enterprises on the platform, and again, it's a growing on a daily basis. We have a thousand and something, thousand and chain startups out of 3500 startups that requested to apply to prove. So you can see that almost two third of the vendors that…”

Toby Olshanetsky Jan 17, 2018 ▶ 7:06 907 SaaS: How Proov Was Able to Raise $21m Pre Revenue

Disclosure

Proov Launched Paid Monetization for the First Time in January 2018

“We just actually, you know, congratulations to us. We just opened the monetization this month.”

Toby Olshanetsky Jan 17, 2018 ▶ 7:49 907 SaaS: How Proov Was Able to Raise $21m Pre Revenue

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Olshanetsky: Proov conducted 170 customer interviews before coding

“When we build the company. We did this 170 interviews. To understand the pain. And that was before we started coding. And then we did our MVP. Then we launched a semi alpha pre beta again with 10 customers to understand if we understood correctly the pain. The…”

Toby Olshanetsky Jan 17, 2018 ▶ 13:27 907 SaaS: How Proov Was Able to Raise $21m Pre Revenue

Disclosure

Olshanetsky: Proov has scaled to over 40 employees

“We are 40 something.”

Toby Olshanetsky Jan 17, 2018 ▶ 4:48 907 SaaS: How Proov Was Able to Raise $21m Pre Revenue

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Olshanetsky: 15% of Proov's team is sales and marketing

“Well, the majority of the company still is R&D. I would say about 15% of the team is sales and marketing.”

Toby Olshanetsky Jan 17, 2018 ▶ 11:36 907 SaaS: How Proov Was Able to Raise $21m Pre Revenue

Disclosure

Olshanetsky: Proov is hiring 15 salespeople

“And we are hiring like crazy. I'm hiring right now, 15 salespeople.”

Toby Olshanetsky Jan 17, 2018 ▶ 11:45 907 SaaS: How Proov Was Able to Raise $21m Pre Revenue

Assertion Supported

Olshanetsky: Proov is my seventh startup

“If, well, this is my seven startups.”

Toby Olshanetsky Jan 17, 2018 ▶ 15:52 907 SaaS: How Proov Was Able to Raise $21m Pre Revenue

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
907 SaaS: How Proov Was Able to Raise $21m Pre Revenue	Jan 17, 2018	8m

Toby Olshanetsky

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