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One lead investor provided 90% of Giraffe360's $500k seed round

Mikus Opelts · EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Quickly with CEO Mikus Opelts · Feb 9, 2017 · at 4:23

Mikus Opelts, CEO of Giraffe360, describes the syndicate structure and term sheets received for the company's $500,000 funding round.

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“Well, one company, there was one add-on investor, so basically, 90% of investment is done by one company. So, but we had, like, some five okay offers on the table, so we had something to choose from, and we choose the partners that we believe we can go”

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Giraffe360 self-funded $200k from service revenue before raising $500k
“200,000 we invested probably from our own budgets, and, ah, and, ah, we pushed away from our service business income, and now we just raise a half a million to get our product development further.”
Mikus Opelts Feb 9, 2017 ▶ 3:24 EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Quickly with CEO Mikus Opelts
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Opelts took 100 investor meetings to close Giraffe360's $500k note
“A hundred.”
Mikus Opelts Feb 9, 2017 ▶ 4:17 EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Quickly with CEO Mikus Opelts
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“So we give our cameras out for free. We give to the clients who mostly has large volume of properties. So the first group of clients are real estate brokers. So, and then we charge per property created with our camera. That's basically at one apartment virtual…”
Mikus Opelts Feb 9, 2017 ▶ 5:19 EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Quickly with CEO Mikus Opelts
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“But there's only a minimum volume that you have to do with the camera per month, and that's 20 apartments.”
Mikus Opelts Feb 9, 2017 ▶ 6:21 EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Quickly with CEO Mikus Opelts
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Giraffe360 to expand from 10 to 60 deployed cameras in February 2017
“Right now we are, we have 10, our first cameras out in the market, and the big news is that next 50 cameras is coming into the market on the 10th of February.”
Mikus Opelts Feb 9, 2017 ▶ 7:12 EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Quickly with CEO Mikus Opelts
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“After the first 50 cameras, we will let them work for three months, and we will not be available for any other subscriptions, but in three months we are launching next hundred subscriptions.”
Mikus Opelts Feb 9, 2017 ▶ 8:37 EP 565: Giraffe360 Hits $84k MRR Helping Real Estate Industry Record 360 Virtual Tours Quickly with CEO Mikus Opelts
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