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

Datapods

Take back control of your personal data. 

- Awarded "Most customer centric solution" in the T-Challenge 2023 of Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile US
- Digitalhub.de Accelerator Programme of the Digital Hub Region Bonn AG
- HSG Entrepreneurial Talents Program of the Center for Entrepreneurship of the University of St. Gallen

Robowriter

DHL IT Servives

I've worked on a Projects on Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine to setup Data Pipelines from an External Source, through Redpanda to ClickHouse for Analysis.
The deployment is setup via Terraform IaC and Kubernetes.
Im also involved in some light Python and SQL development to setup various data pipelines.

Impact: The query speed on the analytics database (based on ClickHouse) was increased by an order of magnitude compared to the previous solution.

Data Engineer

DIGITALHUB.DE

Participant Accelerator Program

Deutsche Telekom

My role in the Network Planning Department of Deutsche Telekom was to design and implement workflows to model the technical performance of 5G networks. I was also involved with programming, ETL, Data analytics and SQL. Impact: The automated data analytics pipelines i setup increased our fibre line planning speed by 300%. Furthermore, i coded the model which decided our first 100 5G sites' locations.

Data Engineer / Dual Student

Hi, I'm Jakob 👋, a Data Engineer turned Startup Founder.

I'm the founder of Datapods, a platform designed to empower users by giving them control over their personal data through an intuitive app.

The Waitlist for Datapods is filling up quickly, so if you want an early spot, you can sign up at our Website.

Our achievements so far:

- Awarded "Most Customer-Centric Solution" at the 2023 Telekom & T-Mobile T-Challenge
- Received over €250,000 in funding from the European Regional Development Fund
- Collaborating with top data-regulation experts in Europe, including the amazing Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider from the University of Bonn

If you're interested in featuring Datapods or have any questions, feel free to reach out to me at jakob@datapods.app.

📍 Located in Bonn.

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