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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pugliesi: Hi Platform is Brazil's top chatbot provider with 150+ clients
“So in the last two years, we are the number one chat bot here in Brazil.
We have over
150 clients.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hi Platform generates approximately $750,000 in monthly recurring revenue
“We are actually doing, our MRR is about 750,000 dollars.”
Opinion
Pugliesi: Brazil lacks growth-stage VC funds despite abundant early-stage capital
“In Brazil we have lots of VCs and early stage money, and we don't have more funds specific to growth money or to stages that are later stages.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
High Platform's 4 co-founders started with only 20% equity combined
“We actually had 20% of the company.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
High Platform founders doubled their ownership to 40% via buybacks
“We've doubled our participation in the last two years, so we've we bought
shares from other minorities.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
High Platform Reaches 1,700 Customers and $1.1M in MRR
“Right now we had 1.7 thousand different customers and we do have 1.1 million dollars in MRR.”
Assertion Partly supported
High Platform Raised $7M in Its First External Funding Round
“We actually raised money last tag, last August. We raised seven million dollars. That was our first round.”
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
High Platform Was Valued at $40M in Its $7M Raise
“Yeah, forty million.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Puglisi: High Platform grew revenue 28% last year
“We actually grew 28% the last year.”
Disclosure
High Platform's monthly sales quotas range from $3k to $6k
“Each of them has 3000 dollars per month as the initial quota, and the senior ones, they have 6000 dollars per month.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hi Platform serves over 800 total customers across its suite
“We have over over 800.”
Disclosure
Hi Platform aims to raise $5M-$7M at a $20M pre-money valuation
“This time we were trying to raise about five five million between five and seven million dollars at this very moment. ... We're trying to make 3.5 times our revenue. So it's about seventy-five million dollars. Sorry, seventy-five million reais in dollar. I thi…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hi Platform's CAC is between $1,500 and $2,000
“Our CAC is about two, 2.5 between 1.5 and 2000 dollars.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hi Platform's average CAC payback period is around eight months
“Our CAC payback is about the average CAC payback is about eight months.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Pugliesi: New Hi Platform customers typically start between $400 and $500 monthly
“So they start, they mainly start with 500 dollars, between 405 hundred dollars.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hi Platform experiences a 2.5% net MRR churn per month
“Churn is 2.5 percent per month.”
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Pugliesi: Hi Platform grew sales 20% to 22% year-over-year
“We improved our sales in 20%, 20, 22%.”