Plaid is a financial technology company that provides web-based customer service tools and digital marketing services. The document discusses Plaid's history of rapid growth since its founding in 2011, with its annual recurring revenue increasing from $0.5 billion to over $4.3 billion. It also analyzes Plaid's competitive position in the growing market for digital marketing tools, the structure of its SaaS-based business model, and its potential for continued market share expansion.
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Table of Contents
Company Profile
Corporate History
Challenges for Marketers
Products
Business Growth
Highlights (1) - (3)
Management
Industry Environment
Market capitalization of digital marketing
stocks
Trends in the Web Customer Service Tool
Market
Positioning and competitive advantage
Business Model (Net Sales and Operating
Expenses)
Past Performance
Business Forecast
Estimated Market Size and Market Share
Expansion
Business Risks
Valuation Table for SaaS Companies
Performance Table (PL/BS/CF)
Disclamer
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History: Established in 2011; rapid growth of KARTE business launched in 2015
Source: Company data, INITIAL, AccuWealth Research
Plaids growth history
Founded
Seed
Finance
KARTE
Series-A
Finance
SeriesB
Finance
Series-C
Finance
(Google)
KARTE
for App
KARTE
Datahub
KARTE
Talk
Transcos-
mos
partnership
(yr)
1bn
2bn
4bn
500M
Mr.
Shibayama
joined
EC Consulting
Gourmet App
Announced funding from Google and strategic partnership in Nov'19.
ARR
Pivot
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Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
FY16 FY18FY17 FY20FY19
YoY
+35%
(FY20Q4)
0.5
1.0
2.0
3.2
4.3B
yen
Business Growth: ARR Trends
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1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
7,000
8,000
9,000
10,000
Market capitalization of listed companies related to digital marketing
Source: Company data, AccuWealth Research
(Ybn)
Market cap>Y100B
Market capitalization of digital marketing stocks
Company's market capitalization is in the top 10% of all digital marketing-related stocks, and have a strong presence.
The reason why most of the stocks are in the tens of billions of yen range is because (1) advertising agencies have low gross
profit margins, (2) they only provide niche single functions, (3) there are few large corporate clients with high unit prices,
and (4) competition is fierce with many competitors.
100
500
1,000
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Business Model (1): Net Sales
Net sales
Number of contracts Contract price
Existing New
# of
contracts
Retention
rate
CAC Efficiency
Product
price
Enterprise
The sales of our company, which adopts a SaaS-type business model, can be broken down into the number of contracts x contract unit price.
The number of contracts can be accumulated by (1) acquiring new contracts while maintaining acquisition efficiency and (2) increasing the
retention rate of existing contracts.
Unit price per contract can be increased by (1) acquiring high unit price contracts, (2) up-selling, and (3) cross-selling.
UU
increase
Upsell
Cross
sell
Options
Sales
4B
710 520K
Note: Fiscal 2020 ending September Source: Company data, AccuWealth Research
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Assumed market size and market share expansion
Revenue(3)
5.2B
120BCX Market(2)
420BDigital Marketing Tools Market(1)
SOM
SAM
TAM
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