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Stern: Stripe is insufficiently sophisticated for recurring utility billing
“It's just not a sophisticated enough tool for reoccurring payments or someone to pause their payments or someone to process, you know, ongoing water or utility bills.”
Stern: Raising $6M to $8M will bring Streamline to profitability in 18 months
“Yeah, I think we're looking to raise between six and eight. I think that will allow us to get to profitability in the next 18 months.”
Stern: Streamline sees a 37% demo conversion rate from calls
“I mean, we have them making between 50 and 65 calls a week. And I would say of that, we have about a 37% translation rate into S-threes.”
Stern: Streamline achieves a roughly 60% close rate on demos
“And then we have about a 60% close rate on demos.”
Stern: 20% to 30% of Census special district records are invalid
“About 20 or 30% of the census list Unreachable, whether they'd been dissolved, or didn't have a real phone number, or weren't a real district”
Stern: Streamline grew revenue 122% over the past year
“We incorporated 18 months ago, and we grew 122% this year.”
Stern: Streamline captures roughly 1% net margin on platform payments
“We are in, we're processing payments tomorrow, and we're keeping about one percent of that.”
Stern: Streamline loses large utility deals due to payment processing gaps
“Stripe is a great stock gap for what our districts need right now, but we are losing out on deals like water and utility districts, which are much bigger fish because we can't process sophisticated.”
Stern: Streamline's average customer pays about $275 per month
“Our average monthly customer is paying us about 275 dollars a month.”