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Geva: Webhose puts no effort into upselling existing clients
“We don't put any effort on upselling. Currently, at least we will in the future, but currently I want more of Expand my market reach and not necessarily you know, optimizing our current clients.”
Geva: Webhose is doing to web data what Amazon did to hosting
“We basically, we see us doing to date web data or data provisioning what Amazon to do, did to server hosting.”
Geva: Google is a 'closed garden' that blocks machine access to search
“Google is a closed garden in that sense. They are excellent for it, Humans, but for machines that want to tap into their index, there's no way.”
Geva: Webhose has never lost an enterprise client except to bankruptcy
“On the enterprise Part. So the higher the amount they pay, we see near zero churn. We have clients, I told you, we started back in oh seven with providing this data. So we have clients going back in oh seven. We never lost an enterprise client unless he went o…”
Geva: API data customers upgrade organically without sales pressure
“Because we are providing an API, the more clients they have, the more API calls they will need. So they basically are working for us in a sense, the more successful they are, the more API calls they will need. They will upgrade organically their plans. I don't…”
Geva: API products avoid churn because they require no human intervention
“Since we are an API, we are in the backend and no human is, is, is intervening. So it's not like you have a system that, a SaaS system that the guy finds out one day that he stopped using the system and then he cancels. As long as we're doing a good job, We wi…”
Geva: Webhose averages $1,000 to $3,000 monthly revenue per customer
“So, the average would be between
1000 to three,
but we have enterprises that pay under 10th of thousands per month, and we have, and it really, it doesn't really depend on the company.”
Geva: Webhose has tens of thousands of mostly freemium users
“We have tens of thousands of users.
Not all of them are paying.
A lot of them are freemium”
Geva: No Israeli VC had ever invested in brand monitoring
“Actually never, no, no Israeli VC ever invested in this field.”
Geva: Enterprise clients account for about 70% of Webhose revenue
“A few dozens of enterprises that are about 30, about 70% of the income are enterprise.”
Geva: Webhose's annual net revenue churn is probably under 5%
“Oh, less than five percent, probably.”
Geva: Webhose uses freemium SaaS model without long-term contracts
“It's a SAS or data service subscription-based.
You can go ahead and
It's a freemium model, basically.
Anyone can sign up for free, get access to 1000 API calls for free, and then you can upgrade, downgrade, cancel any time.
We don't shackle you into long-term…”