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Stefan Smulders
Top Bootstrapper

He's built a great team and has grown from $5m to $9m ARR in the past few years without outside capital.

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Bridget Harriss
Top Bootstrapper

Despite competitors who have raised $100m+ Bridget has managed to grow from $1m to $4m in revenue by staying consistent over a long period of time!

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Eric Siu
Most Creative Marketing Campaign

Eric has built a podcast with 74.1m downloads and used it to jump start a media moat that generates $1m+/yr in revenue.

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Liam Martin
Top Bootstrapper

Liam has used a combination of community (Remote conference), his book, and great content to build a moat around his SaaS. TimeDoctor now does $20m in revenue without raising outstide capital.

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Peep Laja
Most Creative Marketing Campaign

Peep is competing in the very competitive B2B SaaS data space. He's using his experience from CXL to host highly attended conferences to drive SaaS revenue.

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James Isilay
Most Likely to IPO

James has raised $126m to hit revenues of $45m and has multiple larger competitors that could pay more than $1b for Cognism. He's in a hot space, with plenty of capital flowing around from potential buyers like Hubspot, Salesforce, and ZoomInfo.

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Jim Yu
Most Likely to IPO

Jim has hit $100m in revenue in a very capital efficient way. They've only raised $0.60 for every dollar of ARR.

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Cristina Vila Vives
Most Likely to IPO

Cledara launched in 2018 despite legacy players with huge funding and marketshare. Today, they've opened offices in Barcelona and Denver and are some of the most in demand speakers at SaaS industry conferences because of their unique data set.

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Gleb Budman
Top SaaS CEO

Gleb is the only SaaS founder to bootstrap to IPO in the last 10 years. After hitting $80m in revenue, he went out and hit a $1b+ market cap on day 1 of trading.

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Greg Galant
Top SaaS CEO

Greg bootstrapped his SaaS company to $50m in ARR after struggling for 8 years wiht under $2m in ARR. He recently got a $180m secondary done which rewarded the early team with liquidity.

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Quills.ai
Most Promising AI Tool

Over the past four months, they've been deeply engaged with a major player in the industries. Their newly launched feature that allows users to effortlessly search and derive insights from PDFs, DOCX, or CSVs. From a cutting-edge Data Chatbot and an AI-Powered SQL Query Generator to robust Data Visualization & Exports, Custom Prompts, and seamless connections to databases – it's all about delivering comprehensive analysis solutions.

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Loudon Owen
Top SaaS CEO

EXPERIENCE Loudon is co-founder of McLean Watson Capital and CEO of KNNX Corp. Prior to establishing McLean Watson Capital, Loudon and John Eckert financed and advised Softimage, a world leader in high-end 3D animation, in its growth from 4 to 250 employees, its IPO on Nasdaq in 1992 and the sale to Microsoft in 1994. Loudon and John served as the Joint COO for Softimage from 1993 to its sale. Prior to that, Loudon practised corporate/commercial and securities law with a major Canadian law firm, concentrating on M&A and technology financing. He subsequently founded a corporate law firm that specialized in representing growth companies. His experience is not complete without mentioning his playing professional hockey in Europe, being the Ontario College boxing champion, and co-founding the Canada Law Student Games. Loudon speaks French, as well as a rusty smattering of several other languages including German. BOARDS Loudon currently serves on the Boards of Directors of i4i, Vismand Exploration, Amplus Communication, Ntegrator International (listed on SGX) and Quantec. He has served on the Boards of a range of public companies, including BPI Mutual Funds, Brookfield/BF Realty and Softimage. His pro bono activities include serving on several non-profit boards and associations. EDUCATION Loudon holds a BA from the University of Toronto, an LLB from Osgoode Hall, Toronto and an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.

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Patrick Bosek
Most Promising AI Tool

Heretto has embedded AI in its component based content marketing system delighting customers like Jamf and Medallia.

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Mathilde Collin
Top SaaS CEO

Mathilde has helped shape a whole generation of entrepreneurs through her teachings (Founders Guide to Discipline on FirstRound) and operatiional excellence. She's scaled Front to tens of millions in revenue and thousands of happy paying customers.

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Lalit Mangal
Most Likely to IPO

Launched in 2019, Airmeet has scaled to an estimated $20m in revenues and 239 full time employees. Despite tough competition from Hopin, vFairs, and cVent, the company continues to grow at a record pace.

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Grant Cooper
Top Bootstrapper

Despite a crowded Revenue Attribution space, Grant has been able to scale Cometly to more than $1m of revenues on less than $500k raised. Incredible capital efficiency.

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Jordan Muela
Most Likely to Succeed

Based in Seattle Washington and quietly scaling with his team of 45, Jordan has built a niche SaaS in the property management space and hit millions in revenue.

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Phil Reynolds
Most Likely to Succeed

Phil is a seasoned CEO who doesn't quit. After 20+ years at his first company, he launche DevStride to help companies build software faster.

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Joe Brown
Top Bootstrapper

After he cut his teeth at SinglePlatform, Joe launched DearDoc in 2016 and has since grown to 136 FTE's serving thousands of paying customers. Now in the millions of revenue, he's managed to drive growth without raising outside capital.

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Samir Smajic
Most Likely to Succeed

Competing in the hyper competitive document signing space, GetAccept has hit $10m in revenues - those custom GetAccept suit jackets must be working!

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Raul Kaevand
Most Promising AI Tool

Raul should have been dead on day 1. There are thousands of tools for automating outbound campaign, but Raul found a niche. Leadning on generative AI, warm up campaigns, and aggressive pricing, he's hit millions of revenue and 17,000 customers in under 3 years.

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Gil Allouche
Most Likely to Succeed

Metadata has hit $14m in revenue and is backed by worldclass investors through their $40m Series B. Can they continue the triple triple double double double?

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Gilles Domartini
Most Likely to Succeed

Cleengs' subscriber retention management platform has attracted thousands of customers in a unit economic positive way. The company has raised just $7.5m in capital and generates more than $1 in ARR per dollar raised.

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Peter DiSalvo
Most Promising AI Tool

Founded in 2015, Pete has bootstrapped to millions in revenue for his Threat and Security awareness platform. Part of his secret sauce is his AI integration which he holds a patent for.

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