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Levin: SEMrush Left Its Entire $40M Funding Round on Balance Sheet
“We raised some money, but frankly speaking, we didn't touch You know, this round. It's pretty much all on the balance sheet.”
Levin: SEMrush employs 800 people and is cash flow positive
“I mean, you see, we have 800 people and we are cash flow positive.”
Levin: SEMrush has over 5 million registered users
“We have over five million registered users and then, yeah, paying customers would be relatively small percentage of total registered users.”
Levin: SEMrush is still largely founder-owned and founder-managed
“We we're still business that largely owned by founders, managed by founders and, you know, team of people who they assembled over, over time.”
Levin: SEMrush has up to 50,000 paying customers and 2 million users
“So we have a more than two million users, adding a lot of new users every month in terms of paying customers. It's Let's say between 30 and 50,000.”
Surfer SEO focuses on on-page content gaps rather than backlinks
“Like these tools are focused more on keyword research and on backlinks analysis, while we are more like a data-driven tool that gathers a lot of information from pages that are ranking the top 10 to tell you whether you are missing something or overusing when …”
SEMrush was a side project for four years before founders fully committed
“So the first version was in 2008. But till 2012, it was more like a hobby. Not, you know, not a serious business, and they used to have other businesses. And only 2012, they like really realized that SEM rush on its own is probably going to be bigger than ever…”