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

GetYourGuide

Head of Global Communications

Pitch

I established a comms function from scratch at Pitch, a next-gen SaaS tool for building presentations. I set and owned comms strategy across earned, owned and paid channels, and managed a team of three, a six-figure budget, and a network of agency + freelance partners.

Head Of Communications

I built PR, corporate communications and social media from the ground up at GetYourGuide, a leading global travel brand and European technology unicorn. As a founding member of the Brand team, I participated in scaling the function from scratch to a department of 35+ marketers and creatives.

PR & Communications Lead

PR & Communications Manager

Mission North 

In August of 2016, I joined Bateman Group's Media Practice, a specialization with an increased focus on developing relationships with top-tier business and trade media, and on serving as a resource within the agency on media relations strategy and tactics.

Senior Media Associate

We’re an independent PR firm with offices in San Francisco and New York. Our content-led approach to PR combines storytelling and innovative thinking, backed by data. We help technology brands turn their innovation into stories that build a solid foundation for market leadership and growth.

My responsibilities include driving press coverage for clients by developing relationships with key journalists, leading outreach strategy for corporate news & announcements, positioning executives and experts as thought leaders through contributed content and speaking engagements, and conducting strategy workshops to refine competitive messaging and craft story ideas.

Senior Associate

Hotwire PR

Hotwire is a global PR and communications agency focused on the technology sector.

Provided strategic PR counsel and manage media and influencer relations to a range of tech-enabled brands. Duties and experience included acting as chief liaison between my clients and relevant industry press, designing and leading messaging workshops to craft media strategy around business and marketing challenges, composition and promotion of press releases and contributed content, event/conference press coordination, and analyst relations.

Key clients of mine at Hotwire included digital commerce brands (Indeed.com; Marriott Hotels, Rakuten; Red Bull Media House; WorldRemit) enterprise/B2B tech solutions (Pegasystems; Redwood; Acision; Tradier), hardware/manufacturing vendors (Proto Labs; CommScope) and more.

Secured interviews, coverage and contributed articles for clients in top-tier print, online and broadcast media, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNBC Closing Bell, FOX Business, Bloomberg, NPR, Forbes, Fortune, Fast Company, Entrepreneur and more, as well as leading technology media such as TechCrunch, WIRED, and Engadget.

In February and March of 2015, I completed Hotwire's Global Mobility Program, spending 4 weeks in the Munich and Frankfurt offices of Hotwire Germany to gain experience with European media relations and PR strategy.

Senior Program Executive

Program Executive

Associate Program Executive

Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter & Associates

Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter & Associates is a top-tier public affairs firm specializing in legal, political, crisis and international communications for a wide array of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, trade associations and foreign governments. 

I assisted in the development and implementation of communication strategies for CLS clients through research and analysis of short-term and long-term media coverage, event planning, media list building, and coverage of relevant Capitol Hill events and panel discussions.

Public Affairs Intern

Cognito

After returning from a semester abroad in Berlin, Germany, I interned for Cognito’s Business Development team, taking on the task of streamlining and updating the firm’s sales contact database. I accomplished this by designing and implementing a project workflow that enabled me to research and update over 1,800 contacts in six weeks. In tackling this assignment, I gained valuable exposure to the challenges of a complex, unstructured project, and was afforded the opportunity to present my work to the entire New York office at the conclusion of the internship.

Business Development Intern

In my first two months at Cognito, I interned under a team managing several of the firm’s public relations accounts. In this capacity, I learned many of the fundamentals of PR, and provided support to the team by researching media, compiling press clippings, and maintaining the firm’s dedicated PR analytics software.

Public Relations Intern

Wave Hill Breads

I represented Wave Hill Breads at various farmers' markets throughout the state of Connecticut. I managed vendor tents, interacted with customers, sold bakery products and accounted for profits.

Farmers Market Representative

I build and manage reputation for brands by crafting narratives and campaigns that make an impact, and help leaders find the words to make world-changing ideas stick.

taplio

The Battle

Uli Kuenzel

Will Gluckin

Followers

Posts

Engagements

Likes

Ready to grow your LinkedIn presence?