We raised $7.5M in funding for our startup, Yac, and I just wrote my first angel check this year! AMA.
I'm an open book and down to talk about anything! I've been on one crazy journey the last 3 years and I want to unpack it all here.
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I know slack invested in yac. How integrated are slack and yac at this point and is yac tech responsible for voice features in slack (huddle)?
We have a pretty tight integration with them that let's you play (and speed control) Yacs directly inline as well as invoke recording right from Slack as well. You also get your standard Yac transcription showing up in Slack too which is great for search!
Your site says the 500 start ups are using Yac - what acquisition channels are you using to get these customers?
Right now mainly just Twitter to be completely honest & majority of our users are inbound. One thing we've found to be super helpful is our comparison pages & case studies.
For example, with 500 Startups they were big fans of WhatsApp voice messages for personal and work.
When they saw our comparison page "WhatsApp vs Yac" they were quickly able to see Yac is a better, B2B, version of a behavior they already like & were familiar with.
congrats on the raise! how'd you get to writing your first angel check?
I was actually sent the company from the Twitter account VCBrags! I had been thinking about angel investing for a while and this seemed like the right opportunity. The founder and I did a call where he really sold me on the vision plus I love that I was able to get in at the ground floor.
awesome! sounds like a quick turnaroud