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Insight
Sidhu: Citizens interacting with local police are essentially customers
“Well, I mean, anybody who is interacting with a police officer or deputy sheriff at a local law enforcement level is essentially a customer.”
Disclosure
Sidhu: SPIDR Tech turned down a Series A to be acquired
“In fact, we had the potential of competing term sheet. We had a term sheet for a series. I mean, we were we actually ended up turning things down because we felt like this was a very, very rare type of acquisition that we could have easily walked away from.”
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Sidhu: SPIDR Tech achieved profitability in 2020 before its acquisition
“We had reached profitability last year as well, so we didn't necessarily need venture money to continue growing.”
Disclosure
Sidhu: SPIDR Tech charged small police departments $10K to $40K annually
“At a smaller agency of a hundred folks, it could be, you know, somewhere between 10,000 to 40 ish thousand dollars a year, depending on how much of the platform that they wanted.”
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SPIDR Tech serves over 60 police agencies across US and Canada
“We have over 60 different agencies across the United States and Canada.”
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SPIDR Tech crosses $2 million annual revenue run rate
“We have.”
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Sidhu: One major city customer nearly doubled SPIDR Tech's revenue overnight
“We had a major customer come on board you know, major city that doubled our revenue, almost doubled our revenue overnight in Q one of”
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Sidhu: SPIDR Tech grew revenue 5x year-over-year before the pandemic
“And I will say that the years prior, you know, we had five X year over year growth pretty easily.”
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Sidhu: Early police customers refused to pay, causing zero 2016 revenue
“It was a big fat goose egg in 2016 because in the beginning we had to have law enforcement agencies to take a chance on us. They weren't willing to pay.”
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Sidhu: SPIDR Tech generated under $100K in 2017 revenue
“It was less than a hundred K.”