Bonsai
Managed Elasticsearch and Solr search-as-a-service platform that hosts and supports full-text search engines for developers building applications.
Est. Valuation
$33M
$33,000,000 · 5× ARR estimate
Monthly Revenue (MRR)
$550K
$550,000/mo
Annual Revenue (ARR)
$6.6M
$6,600,000/yr
Employees
13
Founded
2011
Bonsai Revenue History
Revenue history for Bonsai from 2021 to 2026.
| Year | MRR | ARR | YoY Growth | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | $550,000 | $6,000,000 | — | Feb 2021 |
How Bonsai Makes Money
Bonsai Funding
Bonsai is fully bootstrapped with no outside funding. The company has grown to $6,600,000 ARR organically.
Bonsai Founders
Drew Sellers
President
Nick Dostrey
CEO
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Valuation follows a hierarchy: public companies use the live market cap; private companies with disclosed funding rounds use the last reported valuation; otherwise we apply a conservative 5× ARR multiple as an estimate. Multiples vary by business model — SaaS typically sits 5–7×, profitable bootstrapped operations 3–5×, consumer brands 1–3×, marketplaces 8–12×.
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