Kajetan von Armansperg - Founding story of Leapsome, Tackling culture, Bootstrapping to 10M ARR then raising 60M Series A, Opening an office in the U.S., Money as a taboo topic

Venture Europe: Entrepreneurship | Technology | Venture Capital | Eu/Acc

Our guest today is Kajetan von Armansperg, Co-CEO of Leapsome.

Leapsome is an all-in-one platform for people enablement. They combine the tools for goals and OKRs management, performance reviews and 360s, and compensation and surveys among other features. More than 1500 companies including Spotify, Northvolt and Unity use Leapsome platform to build high-performing teams.

After bootstrapping for 5 years, in 2022 they’ve raised a 60M dollar round from Insight Partners, Creandum and Visionaries Club.

During this episode we discuss about the importance of staying frugal, their bootstrapping journey from 0 to 10M ARR and the decision process of skipping seed and later opening an office in NY.

Many thanks to Sebastian Pollok for the intro.

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