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

HYRE

• HYRE enables top talents and firms to work together flexibly and on-demand through technology and powerful matching algorithms
• Our juniors are students or recent graduates from the best business, engineering, and tech focused universities in Europe

Co-Founder & MD

Solvemate

•	Created a sophisticated financial business plan & SaaS cash flow model that formed the basis of a successful application to a 1.5m bank credit line
•	Devised, planned, and executed upon the methodology behind the monthly KPI overview used for investor & internal reporting
•	Managed a smooth transition to a new office with minimal interruption

Interim Enrepreneur in Residence

Seven Lanes

•	Managed the 13-person talent team while applying KPI based reporting and scaling best practices to increase monthly revenue from 30 to 80k in 2 months
•	Led a 4-person strategy team that helped select the best courses of action
•	Helped develop and scale a digital student consultancy with the volume of projects sold per month reaching 60k within 3 months

Head of Growth/ Entrepreneur in Residence

Clipperton

•	Assisted in a €20m cross-border merger of two employee benefit providers
•	Conducted analyses and financial valuations of numerous companies
•	Wrote a paper on the opportunities created by Blockchain and ICOs

Tech Investment Banking Analyst Intern

Student Consulting Projects

•	03/2017 - 06/2017		Leipzig digital hub initiative: Design of a smart energy concept 
•	09/2016 – 12/2016		Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.: Detailed competitor Analysis
•	03/2016 – 07/2016		WCGE: Analysis of the public’s refugee integration expectations 
•	03/2016 – 06/2016		Postbank AG: Development of a Blockchain business model

Student Consultant

Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit

•	Visualized German federalism and its development to support the Philippine Vice President’s     federal reform efforts 
•	Wrote a paper about the best practices of the Philippine and German startup ecosystems to enable mutual learning
•	Helped plan the first “FNF Startup Festival” which attracted ≈ 2000 visitors

Political and Economic Development Intern

CommerzVentures

•	Co-authored a detailed InsuranceTech whitepaper, highlighting opportunities worth €4tn and five key technologies driving change
•	Evaluated diverse business models and markets of around 35 InsuranceTech, BankingTech, and Cybersecurity startups
•	Prepared and took part in meetings with multiple portfolio companies

Venture Capital Analyst Intern

WunderAgent

•	Facilitated investor acquisition, and communicated with current investors in a successful series A round at a €5m valuation
•	Built business models to predict market sizes for two new products
•	Designed models to forecast profits, and customers’ potential savings

Business Development and Finance Intern

KPMG

•	Assisted in improving a performance comparison system for German Health Funds, creating synergies worth €6m annually
•	Analyzed impacts of demographic change on statutory health insurers until 2030 and conceived cost reducing mitigating strategies
•	Took part in market research to evaluate a large joint venture between a chain of German hospitals and Chinese healthcare training institutions

Public Sector Consulting Intern

George Concierge

•	Prepared, conducted, evaluated, and presented a comprehensive survey of over 100 hotels and subsequently designed and executed marketing campaigns based on it
•	Setup and maintained a CRM system containing over 700 current and potential customers
•	Held sales pitches with potential customers and communicated with current customers

Sales and CRM intern

HYRE founder & MD l APX 20l HYRE offers the quickest way for companies to build their sales teams

My company
•	HYRE is becoming the leading platform for European Sales-Careers, connecting talents and firms as quickly and efficiently as possible through a digital sales profile and powerful matching algorithms
•	Our Sales talents are the top 2% of SDRs, Sales Reps, and Junior account executives, who have passed through our signup and interview-process

Me
•	Creative thinking and curiosity, paired with solution-oriented diligence
•	Global experience and intercultural competence due to having lived, studied, or worked in a total of eleven countries in Asia, South America, and Europe
•	Expertise in business sciences and hobbyist studies of a broad array of fields

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