From Broke To Paid

The journey of a founder who successfully raised funding from top-tier investors like CapitaLand, Vertex Ventures.

What this short covers

The journey of a founder who successfully raised funding from top-tier investors like CapitaLand, Vertex Ventures, and SBI Investment Co. Ltd. It discusses the strategies employed to scale sustainably through a mix of equity and debt, indicating a later stage of funding, Series B or beyond.

Transcript

So I think this uh the second year you know when the revenue was reasonable enough uh we started u you know to start paying ourselves okay nowhere close to the corporate salaries but at least some money because by the time we had through you know most of the saving which we had and fortunately in time this kind of happened with us where revenue was you know we were able to generate revenue and since we were very the early guys in the game we had good success in the beginning we got more clients uh so we became the market leaders uh very very quickly though the business was still small because the market was very small at that point of time.

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