Vivek Khandelwal

Founder & CBO, CogniSwitch · 1 appearance on the record.

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Vivek Khandelwal co-founded iZooto (Datability Solutions), an owned audience marketing and web push notification platform built to help publishers and online merchants engage and retain readers. He currently leads commercial and go-to-market strategy at CogniSwitch, an enterprise AI infrastructure and governance company, having previously co-founded Applied Mobile Labs.

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Disclosure

iZooto generates $54K monthly SaaS and $55K ad monetization revenue

“SaaS is about 54,000 right now. The non-recording revenue has again been fairly consistent and recurring as well, but again, because it's not really classic classic revenue, that's about another 55,000 dollars.”

Vivek Khandelwal Nov 24, 2018 ▶ 8:17 1218 This Browser Notification Company Just Hit 400 Customers, $600k ARR

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iZooto experiences approximately 5% monthly logo churn

“We've been sort of able to control churn now so far to about yeah probably about five percent, right, of our yeah, On a monthly basis, right?”

Vivek Khandelwal Nov 24, 2018 ▶ 8:54 1218 This Browser Notification Company Just Hit 400 Customers, $600k ARR

Disclosure

iZooto operates with net negative revenue churn

“Okay, from a revenue point of view, we have net negative churn as of now.”

Vivek Khandelwal Nov 24, 2018 ▶ 9:13 1218 This Browser Notification Company Just Hit 400 Customers, $600k ARR

Disclosure

iZooto grew from $16K monthly revenue last April

“We were at about 16,000 dollars in last April.”

Vivek Khandelwal Nov 24, 2018 ▶ 10:26 1218 This Browser Notification Company Just Hit 400 Customers, $600k ARR

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iZooto's customer acquisition cost ranges from $1,200 to $1,500

“We spent close to about, I think, 1012 200 to 1500 dollars on a monthly basis.”

Vivek Khandelwal Nov 24, 2018 ▶ 10:43 1218 This Browser Notification Company Just Hit 400 Customers, $600k ARR

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iZooto's monthly ARPU increased from $125 to nearly $200

“Our output was about a 125 dollars a month earlier on, right? We're now kissing 200 for sure.”

Vivek Khandelwal Nov 24, 2018 ▶ 11:06 1218 This Browser Notification Company Just Hit 400 Customers, $600k ARR

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Yahoo Taiwan uses iZooto for browser notifications

“Our customer, though, is, for example, Yahoo Taiwan, right?”

Vivek Khandelwal Nov 24, 2018 ▶ 12:44 1218 This Browser Notification Company Just Hit 400 Customers, $600k ARR

Disclosure

iZooto's pricing scales with opted-in subscriber count

“So we, our pricing is based on their growth metric, which is their, which is the number of subscribers who have opted in to receive notifications.”

Vivek Khandelwal Nov 24, 2018 ▶ 2:31 1218 This Browser Notification Company Just Hit 400 Customers, $600k ARR

Disclosure

iZooto's team comprises four co-founders and 32 employees

“We're about four founders right now. And we have now about 32 people.”

Vivek Khandelwal Nov 24, 2018 ▶ 6:52 1218 This Browser Notification Company Just Hit 400 Customers, $600k ARR

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10% to 20% of iZooto's monthly deals are annual contracts

“So we get about, you know I think 10 to 20% of our monthly deals are annual.”

Vivek Khandelwal Nov 24, 2018 ▶ 11:34 1218 This Browser Notification Company Just Hit 400 Customers, $600k ARR

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Typical iZooto retail customers stay for 10 to 13 months

“My sense is a typical retailer of ours, right, would sort of last with us from the internet we've seen so far at least 10 to 13 months, at least.”

Vivek Khandelwal Nov 24, 2018 ▶ 13:16 1218 This Browser Notification Company Just Hit 400 Customers, $600k ARR

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iZooto retail customers expand to $300-$400 monthly spend over time

“Oh, over a lifetime, they would end us paying us somewhere around 300 to 400 dollars towards the end of their cycle, typically.”

Vivek Khandelwal Nov 24, 2018 ▶ 13:41 1218 This Browser Notification Company Just Hit 400 Customers, $600k ARR

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iZooto's retail customer lifetime value is approximately $3,000

“So you could, so you're looking at just about 3000 dollars.”

Vivek Khandelwal Nov 24, 2018 ▶ 14:11 1218 This Browser Notification Company Just Hit 400 Customers, $600k ARR

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
1218 This Browser Notification Company Just Hit 400 Customers, $600k ARR	Nov 24, 2018	7m

Vivek Khandelwal

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