{"id":949,"date":"2021-11-28T09:50:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T14:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saascan.ca\/samdesk\/"},"modified":"2021-11-28T09:50:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T14:50:41","slug":"samdesk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saascan.ca\/fr\/samdesk\/","title":{"rendered":"Samdesk levels up its SaaS metric knowledge with the help of SaaSCan ahead of Series A raise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Proudly headquartered in Edmonton, AB, samdesk helps companies protect their <\/em><em>people, assets, and brand with real-time crisis alerts powered by big data and AI.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-556\" src=\"http:\/\/saascan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/edmonton-from-bob-coady.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Samdesk\u2019s situation<\/h2>\n<p>The time was right for samdesk to start outreach for their Series A raise. They had product-market fit and paying customers.<\/p>\n<p>The exec team were experts in their domains, but new to growing a start-up and fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>They were tracking a number of traditional financial metrics, but didn\u2019t know the SaaS metrics Series A investors would focus on, or how they stacked up.<\/p>\n<h2>How SaaSCan helped<\/h2>\n<p>SaaSCan reviewed samdesk\u2019s pitch deck and SaaS metrics, then curated relevant data from SaaSCan research.<\/p>\n<p>SaaSCan identified additional key metrics to focus on at Series A such as Net Dollar Retention, Net Burn, and Net Burn Ratio.<\/p>\n<p>SaaSCan shared feedback with samdesk in a live Metrics Mentoring session and made warm intros to a few investors.<\/p>\n<h2>How it worked out<\/h2>\n<p>Samdesk learned they were rocking Net Dollar Retention &amp; Net Burn Ratio versus relevant benchmarks.<\/p>\n<p>This significantly boosted their confidence going into investor meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Samdesk closed a 13.5M Series A round with McRock Capital as lead investor to accelerate samdesk\u2019s mission of creating a safer world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proudly headquartered in Edmonton, AB, samdesk helps companies protect their people, assets, and brand with real-time crisis alerts powered by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etude-de-cas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saascan.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saascan.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saascan.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saascan.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saascan.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saascan.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saascan.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saascan.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saascan.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}