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

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CEO & Co-founder

hans.co GmbH

Investor in 
blueheart (https://www.blueheart.io)
clare&me (https://www.clareandme.com)
Groove (https://www.groove.ooo)
ROY Kombucha (https://roykombucha.com)
SageWealth (https://sagewealth.eu)
Together (https://www.togethertogether.com)

Investing with this thesis: https://hans.co/2020/06/30/an-investment-thesis-the-age-of-relation

Owner

Atlantik-Brücke e.V.

Member & Young Leader 2016

krisenchat.de

Co-founder & board member

Clue by Biowink

Clue is the world’s fastest growing female health app. It helps you understand your cycle so that you can discover how to live a full and healthy life.

Clue uses science and data to provide actionable personal insights into female health. The free mobile app, available on iOS, Android and Apple Watch, calculates and predicts users’ periods and PMS based on users’ data. It calculates fertility windows based on global averages, which can be made more accurate by users’ entering ovulation test data.

Clue’s mission is to help people all around the world benefit from insights into female health.
Numerous major media have greatly praised Clue, including TechCrunch (“Clue is the most underrated app ever”), BuzzFeed, Wired (“Hottest Startups 2015”), Cosmopolitan (“We love Clue”) and The Huffington Post (“Awesome”). 

The Berlin-based startup has the backing of prestigious investors such Union Square Ventures; Mosaic Ventures; Groupe Arnault, the controlling shareholder of LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton; Brigitte Mohn of Bertelsmann; and entrepreneurs from Spotify, SoundCloud and Dropbox.

hy - the Axel Springer Consulting Group

Europe’s "Digital Transformation" depends on relevant networks at the intersection of disruptive startups, established industries, international investors and policy makers. hy! started out on a mission to bring these stakeholders together, providing an intimate and focused environment for discussing technological trends, for discussing entrepreneurial challenges, for sharing best practices and for exploring collaboration at eye level.

Over the years, hy has grown into a leading consulting group, supporting companies all the way through their digital transformation journey. Having worked with over 80 clients (DAX, MDAX, Mittelstand companies) across all industries, hy's core expertise lies in decoding tech ecosystems, and driving high-growth digital business opportunities.

Co-founder

hubraum

hub:raum is Deutsche Telekom's global incubator. We are helping startups to grow and succeed.
hub:raum gives talented entrepreneurs the opportunity to develop their ideas into high-growth businesses. In the crucial pre-seed/seed phase, hub:raum provides teams with a strongly supportive, highly market-oriented, and challenging environment. hub:raum offers funding, mentoring, office space as well as the possibility for startups to access and leverage some of Telekom's most relevant assets: huge reach and cutting-edge technology.

Venture Partner

Sandbox Network

As one of three Berlin Sandbox Ambassadors, I am screening applicants and try to find out whether they fit to the Network. Once a month we organize Sandbox Dinners to get together the members and connect to other exciting individuals.

Berlin Ambassador

Berlin Tech Meetup

The Berlin Tech Meetup is a bi-monthly event for fellow geeks, hackers, entrepreneurs and investors. Watch 5-6 companies show-off their technology and demo exciting products - web, mobile, cars, 3D printers, we have it all. Demos will typically be 5 minutes, followed by 5min of Q&A.

Changers GmbH

Responsible for all external media relations and the launch of Changers.com in the US.

Head of Communications

Hans Raffauf is a Co-founder of Clue, the world’s fastest growing female health app.
 
Clue has more than 15 million active users in over 190 countries, and is one of the most popular apps in the “Health & Fitness” category in the United States, Germany, the UK, Brazil, France, Mexico and many others.
 
Clue’s mission is to help people all around the world benefit from insights into female health. A lifelong entrepreneur, Hans is convinced that technology and, the ability to ethically harness data, will profoundly change the future of female health.

To date, Clue has established partnerships with a number of academic institutions, such as Oxford University in Europe and Stanford University, Columbia University, and the Kinsey Institute in the US. Clue’s scientific collaborations are exploring questions like: what pain patterns are considered ‘normal’ in which populations? What mood patterns do we see around ovulation? How might our menstrual and symptoms patterns help us spot disease and illness earlier? It is also worth noting that the data shared with these institutions is always stripped of identifying factors, and only aims to answer research questions of a non-commercial nature. 
 
Prior to co-founding Clue, Hans co-founded hy!, a creative event series, to support and connect Europe's startup scene which he sold back to Axel Springer in 2017. He also helped set up the Berlin Hardware Accelerator, hardware.co, as well as betapitch, Berlin's legendary startup competition. Hans also helped to establish  Berlin Tech Meetup.
 
Hans currently lives in Berlin with his partner Ida, who also co-founded Clue, and their two children.

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