Silver Lake and Microsoft heavily used Zirra's platform as free users
Anur Ravan · EP 588: Zirra Raises $3M, Hits $50k MRR Helping You Get Company Data with CEO Aner Ravon · Mar 4, 2017 · at 6:22
Aner Ravon, co-founder of Zirra, discusses institutional and corporate users who took advantage of the platform's free alpha before paid plans launched.
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“We have Silver Lake a couple of banks in Israel. We started in Israel. We just made the first inroads to the US market I guess six months ago. Microsoft was using us pretty heavily, but free, but for free.”
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