Billion $ Story

Founder

SPRYNT

Sold workshops led by professionals from Amazon, IBM and Google to corporate clients and startups.

Co-Founder

June Fund

$100M VC firm headed by Google's Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler

Principal

Heilemann Ventures

Investment Team

iZettle

Operations & Business Development

Deloitte

Made pretty slide decks and spreadsheets very few people ever looked at.

Consulting

I help startup founders raise $1-10 million from VCs with a Billion $ Story | ex-VC at $100M firm by Google board member

Fundraising can be brutal.

After talking to 4,000+ founders over the last 10 years,

I’ve discovered three core problems most of them face (and how to solve them):

1/ You can’t book enough investor meetings
2/ Investors don’t see the potential of your business
3/ They pass on you with bullsh*t feedback or ghost you

Each of them alone could end your run.

If these sound familiar it’s likely because you’ve taken fundraising advice from the wrong people.

And that has resulted in an absolute grind of a fundraise.

Something you don’t care to repeat.

I get it because I’ve been there.

And it’s not your fault.

The internet is a noisy place, and those with no experience often speak the loudest.

Why should you listen to me then?

Because I’ve experienced fundraising from all angles:

→ I was a VC
→ I’ve raised money myself
→ I’ve helped 100+ founders raise $1-10 million rounds

And I can tell you why it’s been a grind for you…

Because venture capital isn’t like most markets.

It’s top-heavy.

It’s feast or famine.

I was a VC for a $100M firm led by one of the most powerful men in tech

…and I’ve seen the reality:

A few outliers get more money than they could ever spend. The rest fight for table scraps.

Because VCs only look for one thing:

Future billion $ companies.

Outliers.

They want founders who can bend reality to their will.

Ordinary pitch advice, generic deck templates, and cookie-cutter narratives won’t cut it.

If you follow the ordinary path, will that make you look extraordinary?

Never.

You’ll drown in a sea of sameness with 90% of pitches.

To create something unique you need an intense approach.

That’s why my help is tailor-made for founders:

1/ I’ll show you how to get 80-100 warm investor connections and book meetings

2/ Together we’ll craft your unique Billion $ Story that will make investors chase you

3/ You’ll learn how to apply my tactics and investor psychology to create conviction and FOMO and close your round

Does it work?

Here’s what my client Frank Gu - currently building his second billion $ business - says:

"Uli is an amazing storyteller, period.

If you're anything like me and tend to overthink things with that extra critical and logical voice in your head, do yourself a favor and book a session with Uli immediately.

He will make your story shine, you won't regret it!"

Interested?

Just DM me “billion$story” and let’s have a chat

Uli Kuenzel

Impact Hub Network

Mentor

YOUTH HealthTech

YOUTH uses data collected from smartphone sensors and machine learning to make prevention easily accessible. With a face video, audio recording and an eye picture YOUTH can screen your health status, and detect early signs of health risks for multiple organs. With this information, YOUTH creates a personalized prevention plan for you and individual goals to optimize your health. Everything is trackable within the app to make it a no-brainer to follow up on your prevention. Join the waitlist here: https://www.youth-prevention.com/

Founder & CEO

Longevity Biotech Fellowship

The Longevity Biotech Fellowship (LBF) is a non-profit exclusive community for people to come together to build, join, or invest in revolutionary longevity biotechnology projects.

Member

Open Longevity 

Non-profit organization with the aim to develop a therapy that prevents age-related degradation of the extracellular matrix (ECM).

Say Forever!

Passionate, international grassroots activist group that works relentlessly to raise awareness and educate the public on the potential for a world where aging is eradicated.
Through street action and online surveys, we engage in meaningful conversations, empowering people to envision a new bright future and act on achieving it.

Fellow

AI Guild

The AI Guild is Europe’s leading practitioner community in Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, and MLOps.

Antler

Antler is a global early-stage VC. It has one of the largest communities of early-stage founders in the world, with 600+ portfolio companies, $2.5B portfolio value and offices in 23 locations worldwide.

Founder in Residence

HomeToGo

•Defining and owning OKRs
•Driving product development activities on multiple product lines (HomeToGo Payment systems, HomeToGo Homeowners solution)
•Coordinating product development activities between 5 product managers, 18 engineers, and 2 external teams from acquired companies

Strategic Products - Product Lead

•Defining the product strategy and vision
•Launching closed and open releases of a new strategic product (522% user growth in the first month (from 0 to 1.5k users), over 65% conversion rate for the product onboarding flow)
•Supporting in structuring teams and hiring

Strategic Products - Product Manager

I was hired as the first person in a newly formed team with the goal to create a new business vertical from scratch. I reported directly to the Director of Strategic Products, I performed the following activities:

•Ideating and validating a new product for the company
•Conducting UX and market research together with UX researchers
•Designing the first prototype 
•Following the code refactoring of an acquired company with the goal of leveraging its codebase for the development of the new product.
•Taking over and managing the development team of the acquired company to create the first working MVP.

Strategic Products - Product Associate

Open Search Network

As a continuation of my thesis project, I helped Open Search Network (a STEM Head-hunter) develop machine-learning models to predict the probability of a STEM candidate being hired given his/her skill set. The project has been undertaken in collaboration with a tech start-up supported by the MIT and Brown University

Independent Researcher

Levity

Levity offers no-code machine learning automation for individuals and businesses. Levity closed a $8.3M Seed round was co-led by Balderton Capital.

I was the business hire working on the following topics:
• Defining the go-to-market strategy
• Setting the first growth strategy and related campaigns
• Use-cases validation
• Managing content marketing strategy and execution 
• Building a customized automated CRM
• Pricing and market analyses
• Defining a strategy to collect customer feedback along the customer journey

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