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ServiceTitan
To: BVP Group
From: Byron Deeter, Kristina Shen, and Talia
Goldberg ServiceTitan
Date: March 15, 2015
Re: ServiceTitan Series A Flash
Based in LA, ServiceTitan is a vertical SaaS company for home services businesses
ServiceTitan sits at the core of a home services business' daily operations and
provides everything from inbound call management to mobile dispatching/invoicing to
back office management. Ara Mahdessian (CEO) and Vahe Kuzoyan (co-founder, Head
of Product), presented to the partnership from Menlo Park a few weeks ago.
We first met the ServiceTitan team at the Muckerslab Demo Day in LA 1 year ago
when they were ~$1M in ARR. We've tracked them closely over the course of the year
and since then they grew their SMB business to >$3M ARR ($5M CARR) and landed a
massive $4M ACV deal with a large plumbing franchise. They were able to hit these
achievements with a team of 20 employees (8 at the beginning of the year), no sales
and marketing, while being cash flow positive. Ara was not planning on fundraising
until the summer, but we convinced him to take a pre-emptive deal with us and, thus,
the price is seemingly rich on recognized revenue but more reasonable on booked
revenue,
ServiceTitan is attacking a billion-dollar market that is ripe with opportunity. The
market has historically been dominated by manual processes and clunky on-premise
vendors. We are pleased that ServiceTitan is the gold standard among newer SaaS
vendors that are rapidly replacing their legacy counterparts and enabling desk-less
workers to take advantage of mobile technology. We think that Ara and Vahe are
hungry entrepreneurs who will work tirelessly to provide this industry with easy to
use, state of the art software, and we recommend partnering with them for the
journey aheadWhy are we so excited?
Traction / Financials: The momentum speaks for itself.
$3.5M ARR and -$9.4M CARR, representing 6x growth on ARR and 10x on
CARR YoY
236 paying SMB customers paying on average $15k ACV
Just landed a $4M ACV franchise deal with the CUSTOMER
Net negative churn and limited logo churn
No sales and marketing spend and cash flow positive
Market: The field services market is expected to more than double from $1.58M
to $3.52M in the next 5 years due to the proliferation of SaaS and mobile in the
space. The home services market is experiencing the highest growth.
Product/Competitive Differentiation: ServiceTitan's key differentiation is that in
addition to offering back office service management like all their competitors,
ServiceTitan also offers sales & marketing performance tracking (powered by
Twilio), enabling businesses to capture more potential revenue.
Team: Ara and Vahe both seem strong with domain knowledge and horsepower.
They grew up with families in the plumbing and residential contracting space.
They started ServiceTitan right out of undergrad (Stanford and USC) because
they couldn't find good plumbing software to run Vahe's dad's business and spent
the next 3-4 years building the product. The founders are strong positives for us
in making this investment.
We recommend that BVP invest $17M in the $18M series A financing of ServiceTitan at
a $75M pre money valuation. This represents a ~15x ARR multiple of March ending run
rate, but 8x CARR multiple which feels reasonable given their growth and opportunity.
Over the past month, we wrapped up our diligence, spent a day with the team in their
LA office, and completed 8 customer calls and 5 industry expert calls. We remain
confident that ServiceTitan has the best product and the most momentum (6x growth
in MRR and 13x in CMRR over 13 months) in the home services software market.After the partnership presentation, we identified two key areas of apprehension. First,
there was concern over ServiceTitan’s ability to sell to smaller businesses comprised of
less than 10 technicians. We analyzed their existing customer base and found that
~50% of their current customers fall into this category and likely have between 3 and 7
technicians and pay less than $XXXX per month. We also spoke to a few of these
customers and found that the product was just as valuable to them as it is to larger
businesses. This is encouraging given that over half of the market is dominated by
small independent business. Nonetheless, this is still a vertical SaaS company and
while the TAM is over $1 billion, they will likely need to enter adjacent verticals in
order to achieve a billion dollar value outcome.
Second, with $4.1M of February run rate ARR but over $9M of CARR, ServiceTitan has
a sizeable revenue backlog. We diligenced that nearly all of the committed revenue
will be recognized this year (and the majority by Q3).
However, our diligence has uncovered a new risk. Given that sales and the team have
grown so rapidly in the last year, and this is both the co-founders’ first job out of
undergrad, they have not been laser focused on execution but neglected close
tracking of KPls. Out of all problems to have, growing too fast is one we'd rather have.
The team is aware of their weakness in this area and we're pleased with the hire they
have just made for VP Finance who joins shortly.
MARKET
Over the past decades, field service management software solutions have emerged to
automate and facilitate everything from worker activity, to scheduling and dispatch, to
appointment routing, to billing. The field service management market has been
dominated by legacy, on-prem vendors primarily selling into service-oriented industries
such as telecom, energy, manufacturing and utilities. These solutions were expensive
and clunky, primarily sold into the midmarket and enterprise, and initially solved the
pain point of schedule optimization across hundreds of customer service reps (CSRs)
mapping into hundreds of field technicians schedules. In the last few years, mobile
and cloud transformed the market, and a new generation of SaaS vendors began
rapidly replacing their legacy counterparts. The home services market saw the most
disruption as mobile enabled invoicing at client site, which improved time value of
cash (time to payment) and the cheaper SaaS delivery model enabled SMBs to
purchase software solutions for the first time.MarketsandMarkets expects the global Field Service Management market to grow
from $1.58 billion in 2014 to $3.52 billion by 2019, at a 17.3% CAGR during 2014-2019
due in part to mobile and cloud's ability to bring cheaper, simpler, and more accessible
software to market. Gartner claims the enterprise space is only 25% penetrated and
cour diligence has concluded the SMB space and the home services market are poised
to experience the strongest growth.
There are 600k home services businesses in the United States. ServiceTitan is initially
targeting three of the largest and most sophisticated verticals within home services:
electrical, plumbing, and HVAC, which together account for roughly half of the broader
home services market. The majority of these businesses are SMBs. Our diligence calls
suggest the following distribution of businesses by technician count:
1. -40% - One to two person sole proprietor businesses (however, less than 20% of
revenue).
2. ~45% - Three to 20 service technician businesses
3. -10% - 20 to 60 person businesses
4. ~5% - Franchises and businesses with over one hundred service technicians
ServiceTitan successfully sells to all of these categories except for the one to two
person businesses who are less sophisticated, don't have back office managers, and
therefore can't gain as much value from the sales and marketing capabilities. Today,
ServiceTitan is best suited for businesses in the residential segment with at least
three technicians and three back office managers or customer service reps. They
estimate that there are 42k businesses in the United States that exactly match that
profile. With a $[Link] average MRR per customer, this represents a $600M+ market in
their core business. We feel this is a conservative number and believe ServiceTitan has
many levers to pull to increase revenue per customer and to expand to adjacent
verticals with product enhancements. For example, they are already increasing revenue
per customer by offering credit cards processing, they are considering offering a
lighter weight SMB product to capture market share in the one to two person
businesses, and are thinking about adding functionality that would enable them to sell
to other verticals like roofing, windows/glass, and pest control
In general, businesses with three to twenty field technicians have a CSR to technician
ratio of 1:5 or 2:5 and the larger businesses have CSR to technician ratios of 1:15.
ServiceTitan charges $XXX for CSRs and back office managers and $XX for mobile field
technician users. The histogram below shows a breakdown of MRR by customer. As the
histogram demonstrates, about half of the customer base pays less than $[Link], which
confirms that ServiceTitan successfully captures market share from the long tail.PRODUCT
The ServiceTitan product sits at the core of an organization's daily operations and
provides everything from inbound call management to mobile dispatching and
invoicing to back office management. ServiceTitan's key differentiation is that in
addition to offering back office service management (dispatching, billing, payroll, and
inventory) like all their competitors, ServiceTitan also offers sales & marketing
performance tracking capabilities. This $&M performance tracking is possible because
the company is built on top of Twilio and they are the only solution in the market that
fully integrates the telephony and workflow components of the business. By
integrating telephony directly into the product and attributing a phone line to each
prospect, ServiceTitan is able to track each prospect as it moves from lead, to
appointment, to sale in their fully integrated CRM. ServiceTitan can give visibility into
S&M metrics that have never been well tracking in the industry — for example (1) a
customer service rep's (CSR) ability to convert inbound calls into appointments, (2) a
field technicians ability to sell services and (3) marketing attribution through
dedicated numbers to track individual campaigns.
More detailed view of the core features below:
CRM and Back Office Management — Tracks all transaction history, email, call logs,
and communication related to every opportunity.
Dispatching and Scheduling Dashboard - GPS system tracks and routes field
technicians via text to upcoming jobs. Sends customers a picture and bio of their
field technician and estimated arrival time.
Call Tracking (Twilio integration) - Track all incoming and outgoing calls to
measure efficiency of CSR's and determine whether CSRs convert a call into an
appointment. Additionally, it ties calls to a lead in the CRM and based on area
codes can help tie leads to specific marketing campaigns to attribute spend and
determine ROI .
Mobile App (HTMLS) - currently 25% adoption - Enables field technicians to
create and review estimates in the field, sign contracts and invoices on the go
(eliminates paper invoices), and to log and document activity.
Generates a product menu which technicians can display to customers on-
site to create upsell opportunities.ServiceTitan charges an average of $XXX per employee per month for each CSR or
back office manager and $XX per employee per month for each field technician. They
are able to charge premium pricing compared to their SaaS startup competitors
(typically priced $XX - $XX per technician per month) because of their sales and
marketing capabilities. We estimate that for most small businesses, there is a ratio of
‘one CSR to three or four field service technicians in the SMB segment, and one CSR to.
ten or twenty technicians for businesses with more than a few hundred employees.
COMPETITION
We've talked to the vast majority of new startups in the space and have completed 7
GLG expert calls to form our opinion on the competitive landscape. The field services
space is both extremely competitive and fragmented. The space is split into 2 main
segments: home services (plumbing, HVAC, electrical) where ServiceTitan is initially
focused, and support-oriented services (telecom, energy, manufacturing).
ServiceTitan is emerging as an early leader in the home services market for the
following reasons:
Only vendor focused on the sales and marketing workflow in home services
By offering S&M performance tracking in addition to back office
management, ServiceTitan enables businesses to capture their full potential
revenue (many home service businesses only capture 1/4th their revenue
potential).
Focused on time to cash value
Especially for SMB businesses, the paper invoicing process can delay
payment to a business for weeks. By enabling mobile invoicing onsite,
ServiceTitan decreases payment cycles from weeks to days.
Success selling to both SMBs and enterprises / franchises
ServiceTitan is the only SaaS vendor that has successfully sold up market to
large franchises ($4M ACV deal with Mr Rooters Plumbing franchise).
Home Services Competitors — ServiceTitan's Initial MarketThe home services market is the fastest growing category in field services.
The legacy, on-prem players are all very dated products built 20+ years ago and
many do not have smartphone capabilities.
Dozens of new SaaS vendors have emerged
COMPETITOR 1 (~$2M ARR) and COMPETITOR 2 ($2M ARR) and recently
acquired by COMPANY - primarily sell to SMBs and are light workflow and
mobile invoicing tools that are focused on improving the time value of cash.
COMPETITOR 3 (~$4M ARR) - primarily an all-purpose-use mobile forms.
provider that gained some traction in home services.
None of the new SaaS vendors have telephony integration so they are
unable to move upmarket to sell into the enterprises.
By both revenue scale and customer breadth, ServiceTitan is the clear SaaS
leader in the market.
Support Oriented Services Competitors
ServiceTitan does not currently focus on this market.
Legacy vendors have historically focused in this space.
Unlike the home services market where businesses focus on improving sales,
industries like telecom are focused on optimizing time to service and thus focus
on schedule optimization.
This requires telephony integration to do smart routing/disbatching to
handle hundreds of CSRs mapping into hundreds of technicians that do
dozens of appointments a day.
Emerging SaaS vendor have seen success replacing their legacy counterparts in
this space.
COMPETITOR 4 (-$30-40M ARR) - differentiates itself by having tight
integration with Salesforce (built on [Link]) and has raised $120M to
date
COMPETITOR 5 ($8-10M ARR) - founded by the Fleetmatics team and has
raised $20M to date.
COMPETITOR 6 — leading SaaS provider and was acquired by Oracle for an
undisclosed amount. They had ~500 employees at time of acquisition (Sept. 2014)GO-TO-MARKET
Until the last few months, the company had effectively spent zero dollars on sales and
marketing and acquired the vast majority of new customers via referrals and other
forms of word of mouth.
Referral channels
ServiceTitan's success to date has primarily been driven by referral channels, in
particular with influential affinity groups and associations. Home services businesses
heavily rely on associations for advice on vendors. ServiceTitan has started to form
strategic partnerships with associations which provides them with direct access to
members through email lists, tradeshows, and webinars in return for a ~4% rebate off
list price. ServiceTitan estimates that there are over 10k businesses across a dozen of
the most prominent industry associations, of which 5-6k of businesses fit
ServiceTitan's target customer profile exactly.
Nexstar
ServiceTitan has had the most initial traction with Nexstar Network, a well-known
association comprised of 550 businesses. ServiceTitan took a bottom up approach and
grew organically in the Nexstar member base, acquiring 20 customers before forming
a formal strategic partnership with Nexstars one year ago. Now they are one of only
two software partners (they have ~100 services strategic partners), benefit from direct
exposure to members, and have closed 78 customers in the Nexstar member base. The
other software vendor, Serveman, only has 48 customers after 5 years as a partner and
is very dated software. We spoke to the Nexstar Head of Strategic Partnerships and
she believes ServiceTitan will win over one-third if not over half of Nexstar's
membership base within the next 12-24 months.
ServiceTitan also has strategic partnerships with two other associations (Service
Roundtable, QSC) and across the top associations, has acquired another 70
customers. Through these relationships, ServiceTitan has email lists of 2k+ prospects
and growing. In total association referred customers represent 50% of their customer
base and generally result in larger deals ($2.5k MRR).
The company is also exploring a number of other referral strategies includingManufacturers — Especially in the HVAC space where 90% of businesses work
with 5 manufacturers, the manufacturer is the main vendor for most businesses
and could evangelize ServiceTitan because we help track performance.
Tech affiliate partners — Already in discussions with Yelp to allow consumers to
book home services directly in Yelp to ServiceTitan customers. Other potential
opportunities include Yellow Pages, Yodle, Anglelist, Yahoo, Nextdoor, etc.
Independent consultants - Follow the Xero model and leverage consultants to
recommend to ServiceTitan their customers. One consultant has already brought
in 20 customers.
Sales and Marketing
Given the company has more inbound leads then they can handle, they have been
most focused on referral channels and closing inbound leads rather than building a
demand generation funnel or sales processes. Half of leads come from referral and half
from direct channels through a web form lead capture. The sales process is low touch
for the majority of their customers; SMB customers with <20 technicians can be sold in
1-2 calls and a demo. Larger prospects (>25+ techs) require 3-4 calls and often require
an on-site visit or do site visits with existing customers to see how they use the
product. Up until January 2015, all sales were closed by Ara (CEO) and one sales rep.
In the last few months, they've brought on 3 more sales reps with an initial quota of
$15k MRR a month, or $2.2mm ACV (which we don't expect reps to hit given how high
this is!) and ~$200k OTE.
Overall the organization is still working to form basic S&M protocols. They loosely use
[Link] for their CRM (just track 3 stages, lead, qualified, onboarding) and have no
formulized forecasting or pipeline management in place. The team is aware of these
shortcomings and is currently recruiting a VP of Sales.
CUSTOMER FEEDBACK
We completed 8 customer calls and 5 calls with industry experts. We also spoke
CUSTOMER, their largest customer (covered in section below) and to Nexstar, a
prominent industry association.Reconfirmed that ServiceTitan is the strongest SaaS product in the space and
is differentiated by providing strong sales and marketing ROI
On top of being easy to use and just better software then the dated legacy
vendors, customers raved about how ServiceTitan figured out the "one right
way to do something" rather than providing 10 options.
Majority of customers have reported increased sales from better marketing
spend decisions and measuring performance at each step in the sale cycle.
In particular, technicians gain the greatest ROI because
ServiceTitan gives them a more professional offering, improves upsell, and
decreases time to payment.
None of their competitors offer robust (if any) sales and marketing
functionality.
Core software can easily cross over from plumbing, electrical, and HVAC
ServiceTitan is best matched for the plumbing industry, but there is over
85% product match for the HVAC and electrical industries. Experts confirmed
there are a handful of add-on modules ServiceTitan could build to expand
into adjacent verticals.
Product gaps
The most mentioned product gaps are inventory management (in particular
for the HVAC industry that has expensive parts to manage) and commercial
product capabilities (such as relationship tracking and WIP tracking). Some
plumbers manage both residential and commercial businesses and we
believe building commercial capabilities would expand our TAM estimates by
30%, but residential has been their focus to date.
Overall, customers have very positive implementation and support
experiences.
Most customers migrate their entire business to ServiceTitan within 3-6
weeks. Ara and Vahe are extremely responsive and committed to customer
success since it's such a referral based business.Mobile Web App Issues
The main “area of improvement" related to issues with the mobile web app.
Last year, 15-20% of the time, technicians had connectivity / refresh issues
and had to do manual paper invoices.
ServiceTitan has since fixed these network issues (primarily driven by very
content heavy pricing books), and is also testing a native mobile app
primarily to access a credit card swipper to generate more revenue for the
credit card processing business. The new and greatly improved native mobile
apps will roll out in the next month or two.
FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
We continue to be impressed by ServiceTitan’s financial performance.
Financial summary:
The company grew from $54k MRR in January 2014 to a $344k MRR run rate
today with $70K in CMRR.
This represents 6x MRR growth and 13x CMRR growth in thirteen months.
We believe they will end the year at $13.1M in ARR
They have ~300 paying customers and $50M of monthly transaction volume
flowing through ServiceTitan.
The average customer pays $[Link] MRR while their largest customer pays $[Link]
MRR.
They have been slightly cash flow positive for the past year.
Gross dollar churn averages under 1% each month. Net churn is slightly negative
as customers are upsold on additional mobile licenses.
Currently, 61% of MRR is attributed to back office or CSR users, 18% of MRR is
attributed to mobile licenses, and 21% to phone tracking. They are launching a
new native mobile product (previously web app) in a few months and expect that
mobile will increase to 35% to 40% of MRR in the next year. Many customers are
currently on a wait list to roll out mobile once their much improved product is
ready.
Other non-recurring revenue:ServiceTitan generates $[Link] in one time implementation revenue from each new
customer. They are also in the process of rolling out credit card transactions from
which they will collect XX basis points per transaction. This represents $XXk of
potential additional monthly revenue (we estimate they will be able to achieve XX.X%
penetration by end of 2015).
Onboarding / Support and Gross Margins
ServiceTitan currently has a team of 5 on-boarders who can accommodate 50
customers per month. The average onboarding time is one month, but the team
recently built automated data migration systems which could decrease onboarding
time to 2 weeks. The company had healthy 65% gross margins in Q4, and expects
them to increase significantly in the next year or two.
2015 Forecast
We built a simple 2015 forecast below that gets us to $13.1M ARR by the end of 2015,
representing 240% growth YoY. If any bigger deals hit (ARS could be a $3-$4M ACV
deal) they could dramatically increase the forecast. This model assumes they bring
sales reps from 3 to 8 by end of 2015 and add an average of $120k CMRR a quarter.
TEAM
‘Ara Mahdessian (CEO) and Vahe Kuzoyan (Head of Product) grew up with a keen
understanding of the frustrations and challenges in the industry. Both of their parents
are immigrants; Ara's father is a residential contractor and Vahe's is a plumber. The two.
began thinking about ServiceTitan seven years ago while they were in college when
Vahe's father asked for help evaluating software to manage his business. Ara
graduated from Stanford and Vahe from USC, where they both studied computer
science. After graduating, they spent three years developing the product at Mr
Rooters, part of Dwyer Group, (now their largest customer) to fit the needs and
specific use cases for the industry. Their empathy and mission to empower these blue
collar workers has resonated extremely well in the industry and helped to fuel organic
growth. Ara spends most of this time selling to the larger customers and franchises.
Vahe focuses on product and is incredibly customer service oriented, often spending
weeks at a time on-site with customers to figure out their needs and how they can
better improve the product. We see them as strong positives. The product launched in
early 2013.We did our third site visit and spent a day with the full exec team at their offices last
week. The team is 40 FTE mostly based in LA. They are incredibly hard working and
scrappy, but high horsepower (Stanford & USC grads along w many of their key execs)
and have been quite receptive to our feedback and guidance. They are first time
entrepreneurs and this is their first real job, which was reflected in their elementary
methods of tracking KPI's. They are very aware that they need to implement better
processes to measure their business as they scale. The good news is that they are
very coachable and we are working with them to improve internal processes and to
recruit a VP of Finance.
RISKS
Can they build a sales engine when referrals slow down?
The market is heavily driven by WOM and referrals from associations and we
believe there are still 5-6k target customers across a dozen large
associations we currently have a presence with.
The sales organization is very early (currently 4 sales reps, 2 of which are
very new) and remains a risk. They still need to hire a VP of Sales and prove
an outbound model
No precedent for large software companies in this space. Can ServiceTitan
build a big business?
The core market is over $600M and there are several market expansion
opportunities into the commercial side of the business, tangential home
services verticals, and add on revenues such as credit card processing. This
easily could be a multi-billion dollar market opportunity. We believe a major
reason why no big company has formed in this space is because up until
recently, there were no cost efficient ways to acquire customers in this very
fragmented market. With the recent formation of associations to drive
better business practices, we believe ServiceTitan has cracked the nut on
how to virally capture market share.
CONCLUSION
We are excited to back a hungry team with a strong product that is making waves in
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