Book a short call with Kurt.

I take a small number of short calls with founders who truly understand how critical GTM ahead of their raise is, and are raising or getting ready to. A completed intake is required before any call. No intake, no call.

Answer what applies. 'Not yet' and 'none' are fine answers where they are true.

We have many resources you can leverage for your success: upload your pitch for feedback and iteration, attend our events, or come to Pitch Kung Fu - maybe even Pitch Kung Fu in front of our capital network. Provided at no cost to you.

My time, experience and network are not. They go to founders ready to prove demand, do the work, and invest in getting it right. Too many founders, too much GTM, too much raising, so little time. 🌶️

Founders who are attending Pitch Kung Fu and have uploaded their two-minute video pitch get first priority on slots. Pitch Kung Fu shapes your understanding of GTM to GTF and fundraising fluency, and shows you the standard founders who exit operate at. It is not just feedback, it is for real: heavy capital is always in the room. Treat the upload as iteration - each pass sharpens the execution you have done behind each pitch and what you bring to your raise. Pitch Kung Fu runs weekly, Thursdays at 9 am Pacific: live sessions calendar.

One rule for the room itself: attending Pitch Kung Fu and uploading your video pitch (ideally multiple times) are required to be eligible to pitch, and pitching runs on a waitlist. We strive to bring matching investors for each pitch.

Deeper background

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Our North Star

Our mission is to create more founders who go on to exit and become funders: founder funders. This is our North Star.

We are investors ourselves, with a substantial capital network, built slowly over decades. We build communities where founders and capital meet. The first job is helping founders build businesses the market actually wants. The ones who are ready get in front of real investors.

The work is GTM to GTF: substantially proving demand before a founder raises, while they become fundraising fluent.

Our ecosystem exists to help founders rig the game for themselves, instead of counting on cities, states or nations to do it for them. It has three layers:

Community: content, Pitch Kung Fu, the Danger Room, the GTM toolkit and 100+ in-person events a year bring founders and funders into the same world.
Company building: programs, the accelerator and the venture studio do the hands-on work.
Capital network: connects ready founders with investors, and we are building Mainsail as a collective for the next generation of family offices.

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Track Record

I have been in the capital game for more than 20 years.

Fintech founder, then lender
Angel, VC and venture debt
Super accelerator between the US and the UAE
A venture studio
Two fundraising platforms built, a third underway

We see thousands of companies a year, and have for years. The last five included 500 founder/funder events, a four-month run through 35 venture ecosystem markets working with the venture builders on the ground in each one, and dozens of family-office gatherings around F1 and NASCAR races for the Mainsail family-office families.

I write about GTM that wins traction, builds businesses the market wants to buy from, and gets capital chasing them - and how to rig the game for your own venture: your readiness, your demand, your fundraising fluency. If you are serious about GTM to GTF, start here. You will find a gold mine - let the rigging begin…

Intake form

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Founder intro call - 15 minutes. For founders raising or getting ready to, who understand GTM comes before the raise. Intake required. Investor, sponsor or family office conversation - 20+ minutes. For people who fund, sponsor or back companies. Request for Strategy Session - $1,000/hour. One hour with a pre-decided focus. A request, not a booking - Kurt decides which requests he takes and agrees the focus with you first.

First Name

Last Name

Phone

Venture Name

How much are you raising?

Have you exited before?

Yes or no. If yes: company, year and outcome in one line.

Have you raised before this round, or for another company? How much?

Short answer. No is a complete answer.

How many clients did you talk to before you began to build? What did you learn?

A number and a sentence or two. What changed because of those conversations counts more than the number.

What is your current GTM strategy?

Short paragraph.

Where did you learn to fundraise? What is your current fundraising strategy?

Up to a paragraph.

What are you most in need of? What are you hoping we can do for you?

Open ended, on purpose.

What do you want me to see before we connect?

Optional: paste a link to your deck, Loom or data room. Decks are collected; the form does not promise a personal read before the call.

Bonus, not required: Sign up for the Danger Room and upload your two-minute video pitch ahead of the call. The completed intake stays the gate; this is extra credit - and, once you have been to Pitch Kung Fu, what earns first priority on slots. We and our capital network would rather hear two minutes from you than read any deck: we learn more from your command of the business than slides can show.

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