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M-Files employs over 600 people, including 150 engineers

Antti Nivala · This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS · Dec 18, 2022 · at 10:43

Antti Nivala, founder and CEO of M-Files, breaks down company headcount and engineering team size with Nathan Latka.

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“We're about let's say over, over 600 employees and I believe the engineering team is maybe 150.”

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M-Files has over 600 employees, with approximately 150 on the engineering team.

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Requires internal headcount data or official M-Files corporate disclosures from around December 2022 confirming total headcount exceeded 600 with approximately 150 engineers.

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Disclosure

M-Files allows reseller partners to independently set end-customer pricing

“We don't we don't enforce pricing to the customers. So our reseller partners would be free to price lower if they want to.”

Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 8:09 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS

Disclosure

M-Files direct sales yields to reseller partners on shared prospects

“We try to take upon the first approach. So if we are actually working on the same prospects, we would, Let's say, give way to the partner and rather support them in winning the deal.”

Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 9:08 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS

Insight

M-Files minimizes channel conflict by separating direct and partner deal sizes

“Yeah. Generally. So that's probably also why we don't have that much channel conflict because we don't necessarily compete for the same kind of deals.”

Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 10:13 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS

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M-Files recently crossed $90 million in annual recurring revenue

“We're just above ninety million in, in ARR.”

Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 13:11 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS

Disclosure

M-Files active team declined secondary liquidity, leaving it for former employees

“None of us who stayed with the business were that interested in selling any, but yeah, it's a different thing if you've already left the business early on, like with our longer history that some people had left.”

Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 18:03 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS

Insight

Nivala warns against raising capital at peak market multiples

“It's not necessarily an easy situation for a company to let's say succeed, to raise money at the peak of the valuations and then have to deal with the potential downsides of that. If the, if, and when sometimes the multiples also.”

Antti Nivala Dec 18, 2022 ▶ 20:23 This founder hit $90m ARR last week, took $30m secondary in last round for Document Management SaaS

M-Files employs over 600 people, including 150 engineers

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