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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.”
James Isilay Oct 14, 2020 ▶ 7:48 Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
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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.”
James Isilay Oct 14, 2020 ▶ 4:32 Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
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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.”
James Isilay Oct 14, 2020 ▶ 18:53 Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
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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.”
James Isilay Oct 14, 2020 ▶ 4:00 Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
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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.”
James Isilay May 7, 2024 ▶ 2:26 We hit 4 Scaling Crisis between $0 and $70m ARR, here's how I solved them
Opinion
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.”
Pietari Suvanto Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 1:44 How they hit $12m ARR with just $4m Raised helping RevOps teams with Firmographic Data
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Cognism pays sales commission monthly across a 12-month period
“It's every month for 12 for 12 months.”
James Isilay Mar 19, 2022 ▶ 15:32 Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
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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.”
James Isilay Mar 19, 2022 ▶ 13:24 Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
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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.”
James Isilay Mar 19, 2022 ▶ 12:41 Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
Disclosure
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.”
James Isilay Mar 19, 2022 ▶ 7:10 Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
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Isilay: Cognism Has 179 Total Employees
“In total, we're a 179 people.”
James Isilay Mar 19, 2022 ▶ 9:45 Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
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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.”
James Isilay Mar 19, 2022 ▶ 13:12 Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
Disclosure
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.”
James Isilay Mar 19, 2022 ▶ 5:39 Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
Disclosure
Cognism pays sales commissions monthly for 12 months
“Yeah, it's every month for 12, for 12 months.”
James Isilay Oct 14, 2020 ▶ 16:09 Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
Disclosure
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.”
James Isilay Oct 14, 2020 ▶ 14:31 Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
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