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Islay: Cognism Has Raised About $23M from European and US Investors
“We've raised in total about twenty three million from a mix of European and U S investors.”
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Cognism grew run rate from $2M to $7M in 2019
“We grew in, in 2019 from like two to seven million.”
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Cognism's ACV stands at approximately $14,000 per year
“Like our ACV right now is about 14,000 per year.”
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Cognism acquired Mailtastic for around 4 million total
“In total you know, I believe like in total it was around about four million. I think it was about four million.”
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Isilay: Cognism Started as FinTech Before Pivoting to Sales Intelligence
“I started Cognizm to build the FinTech, and then we pivoted into sales intelligence.”
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Suvanto: Vainu competes with ZoomInfo and Clearbit, not PitchBook
“I put ourselves in the zoom info, communism, clear bit mostly in that category. I think that's more, more closer, more to marketing and sales instead of instead of like venture capitals and financial people.”
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Cognism pays sales commission monthly across a 12-month period
“It's every month for 12 for 12 months.”
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Isilay: Cognism has around 12 quota-carrying sales reps
“I would, so I would say like carry a quote, carrying quota. I would say that's around about 12 right now.”
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Isilay: Crunchbase double-counted Cognism's funding rounds
“I asked that to be corrected.
Yeah.
There's like a double count there.”
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Isilay: Cognism has raised around $23M from European and US investors
“We've raised in total about twenty three million from a mix of European and U S investors.”
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Isilay: Cognism Has 179 Total Employees
“In total, we're a 179 people.”
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Isilay: Cognism employs 15 coders and 24 total technical staff
“We have like 15 coders, and we have 24 with DevOps, which includes QA as well. Like, 24 with DevOps and QA.”
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Isilay: Cognism Saw Heavy COVID Churn in Recruitment and Event Sectors
“Churn, I guess, like, customers that we had that were in the recruitment and the event space in particular got really heavily hit.”
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Cognism pays sales commissions monthly for 12 months
“Yeah, it's every month for 12, for 12 months.”
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Cognism sets account executive monthly quota at $8,000
“In terms of the actual BDMs or we, I guess you call account executives they have like a minimum target of around about 8000 dollars of quota that they're meant to be bringing in per month.”