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Disclosure
Chatmeter claims a 90% win rate in competitive enterprise deals
“I can Proudly saying we win about 90% of deals when we're up against competitors.”
Opinion
HubSpot lacks the scale needed for enterprise marketing campaigns
“It is not, you know, it's just probably not good enough from a scale perspective. Better for kind of smaller businesses, smaller SaaS, but we're getting to much bigger needs from a campaign perspective.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chatmeter reached $2M ARR on less than $100K in funding
“The first four or five years was bootstrapped. We basically built a, I would say about a two million AR business on less than a 100,000 in funding.”
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Chatmeter reached nearly $10M ARR on just $2M total funding
“We're in the ballpark of that range.”
Disclosure
Chatmeter's average ACV is $50,000 to $70,000 per year
“The average is about 50 to 70 grand a year.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chatmeter doubled headcount in three months after raising $2M
“We went out to raise a million. We ended up raising about closer to two million. We grew from about 15 employees to roughly 40 within three months.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chatmeter grew revenue 100% YoY in 2014 and 2016, 85% over the past year
“2013 to 20 14 was a hundred percent year over year growth revenue wise. Same for 2015 to 20 16. The last, over the last 12 months we were looking at about 85% year over year revenue growth.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chatmeter maintains about 90% annual customer retention
“Very good retention numbers. We're about 90% annual retention.”
Disclosure
Chatmeter spends roughly $80,000 per month on direct paid customer acquisition
“On average, it's roughly about ADK.”
Disclosure
Chatmeter spends $13,000 to $14,000 to acquire an enterprise brand
“It is, I'm just presenting on this number. We spend about four, 13, 14,000.”
Disclosure
Chatmeter achieves a CAC payback period of about 10 months
“We're about 10 months in.”
Disclosure
Chatmeter requires at least 20 locations, averaging 250 per client
“We don't talk to clients unless they have about 20 locations. The average business has, or our average client has about 250 locations.”
Assertion Supported
Chatmeter counts Kohl's, AutoTrader, and Payless as enterprise customers
“Like Kohl's and Autotrader and Payless and large retailers as well.”