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Coupa priced its IPO at a unicorn valuation, avoiding a down round
“No, no, no. That's not our good either. We were somewhere in that same neighborhood. It was just like roughly unicorn kind of thing. And we entered in at the same place and then it went up to I don't know, 1.7 billion or something. And it's, so it's been aroun…”
Rob Bernshteyn Dec 25, 2017 ▶ 20:00 884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story
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Coupa expanded margins for 34 consecutive quarters and achieved cash flow positivity
“So we've expanded our margins for virtually every quarter for 34 quarters, both scripture margin, gross margin. And we've been now cash flow positive for the last trailing 12 months.”
Rob Bernshteyn Dec 25, 2017 ▶ 7:22 884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story
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Coupa achieves 95% gross and 110% net revenue retention
“So our revenue retention is been roughly around 95% for years. And with add on business, which we're not focused on at all, it's nearly about a 110%.”
Rob Bernshteyn Dec 25, 2017 ▶ 10:13 884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story
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Coupa's gross margins expanded from 30% to nearly 70%
“We didn't know that gross margins have carefully expanded also for about 34. I mean, they were at a 30% now, you know, we're touching 70%. Subscription is 90 something. So we don't have an issue there.”
Rob Bernshteyn Dec 25, 2017 ▶ 12:48 884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story
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Bernshteyn: Coupa raised $180M pre-IPO and holds a couple hundred million in cash
“We've raised the total of, I think now I think about a 180, and then we did an IPO. So after the IPO was about 75, we did a secondary. So a few hundred million, and you know, we've got a couple hundred million in the bank right now, too.”
Rob Bernshteyn Dec 25, 2017 ▶ 6:29 884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story
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