Apu Ventures
Founder & CEO
Running the Venture Studio on the business, growth, partnership, funding side of things.
π Frank M. Saviane π
π Full Stack Growth in B2B Tech | GTM | Fractional CBO/COO | Growth Engineering (Code/No-Code) | VC | M&A
New York, United States (-05:00 UTC) German, English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinesefrom Bolzano, Italy
Usually responds in 4 hours
$79 / hour
Price per hour
30 min60 min
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99 reviews / 173 sessions
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Frank was excellent on the call (I kind of don't want to give him too good a rating, as then everyone will book him and he won't be as available). Understood quickly our product/market fit issue. Was able to provide advice on which strategy to use for us to proceed. Had background knowledge of our target audience. Highly recommended.
John-Paul Della-Putta
Cool, calm and collected, Frank approached the meeting with the energy I love. After 5 minutes of bringing Frank up to speed, we were at the races discussing strategies to implement to push my service. After nearly an hour, we gained some ground and decided the strategy we needed to pursue to generate the required results. I look forward to hearing back from Frank, and I would love to work closely with Frank to execute this strategy.
Harry Haines
Always helpful and to the point. Great business sparing partner to discuss ideas.
Elie
Bio
15+ years of helping digital, product-driven & high-tech B2B companies (and some B2C occasionally) to: 1. Go-to-market globally (including all the major growth marketing and sales channels and tactics) and 2. Engineer their growth with no-code / code tools to create integrations and automations across their operations. -- Portfolio raised USD 200M+ in VC money, 4 trade-sale exits.
Expertise
Advice on funding
Building growth engines for digital and high-tech startups (with defensible, repeatable, sustainable and validated metrics) for companies to raise Bridge or Series A-B rounds. Have 5K+ investors in our database (Europe, Asia, LatAm) to reach out directly or with 2nd rank introductions
Conversion rate optimisation
I have deep funnel and customer journey CRO experience and have been building our growth engineering and validation framework based on that. Most important element: Find the why (by exploring data) and then create statistically relevant distributed experiments.
Email marketing
As part of the Outbound Sales and Marketing stack, I have been using tons of Emails and Email-like media and channels to reach potential users, clients, and buyers.
Go to market strategy
With operations in 30 countries and out of 3 regional HQs I have been supporting startups and scaleups in a series of GTM strategies and early entry operations
Growth marketing
I have built a database of 100K+ growth tactics and strategies from worldwide available success cases, best practices and known strategies (with build-in experiments and tests) that can be prioritized and executed for validation for your company.
Idea validation
Having seen hundreds of startups via our mentoring and advisory activity (directly with companies, or accelerators and incubators), I can provide a quick 3PO on your idea/MVP/service and give you 3 actionable insights
Pricing strategy
I have been working with a lot of startups and scaleups (especially B2B products and services) to come up with proper pricings (cost, competitive, value). Can support on both pricing testing/setting or optimization
Product management
I have been working as interim PM/PO in some startups in the past, especially in supporting business model validation and early PMF for new features or new business models in emerging markets. Know all the strategies, tools, techniques and best practices for PMs.
Product market fit
I did tons of experiments to find product-market fit (for both validation in new sectors / market segments / audiences or business models and for fitting to international expansions) on digital and high-tech products across different countries and continents.
Sales
I have been working on different outbound sales and marketing strategies. From B2B to B2C; lead research and qualification, cold emailing, cold calling, social media outreach (facebook, linkedin, instagram, and many more), B2B2B or B2B2C partnerships.
Toolkit
Airtable
Have been using it as a DB - CRM and middleware for integration projects in which we had to link operations with growth tools. Including interfaces, automations, scripting, APIs
ActiveCampaign
Have been working with clients on ActiveCampaign on both their CRM and marketing automation needs, from using tags and workflows to integrations between ActiveCampaign and other tools for a seamless integration
Asana
Asana power user, have been deploying and using it in my own growth engineering consulting firm and with clients to streamline project, product, and task management
Google Analytics
I have been offering the above to a number of companies, across geographical markets, audiences/segments, channels and with different sets of tactics. I can offer insights, do sparring on ideas or potential tests or provide tools or past case study information. All coming from our consulting experience.
Google Tag Manager
I have been offering the above to a number of companies, across geographical markets, audiences/segments, channels and with different sets of tactics. I can offer insights, do sparring on ideas or potential tests or provide tools or past case study information. All coming from our consulting experience.
HubSpot
I have been offering the above to a number of companies, across geographical markets, audiences/segments, channels and with different sets of tactics. I can offer insights, do sparring on ideas or potential tests or provide tools or past case study information. All coming from our consulting experience.
Intercom
I have been offering the above to a number of companies, across geographical markets, audiences/segments, channels and with different sets of tactics. I can offer insights, do sparring on ideas or potential tests or provide tools or past case study information. All coming from our consulting experience.
LinkedIn Ads
I have been offering the above to a number of companies, across geographical markets, audiences/segments, channels and with different sets of tactics. I can offer insights, do sparring on ideas or potential tests or provide tools or past case study information. All coming from our consulting experience.
Mailchimp
I have been offering the above to a number of companies, across geographical markets, audiences/segments, channels and with different sets of tactics. I can offer insights, do sparring on ideas or potential tests or provide tools or past case study information. All coming from our consulting experience.
Mixpanel
I have been offering the above to a number of companies, across geographical markets, audiences/segments, channels and with different sets of tactics. I can offer insights, do sparring on ideas or potential tests or provide tools or past case study information. All coming from our consulting experience.
Pipedrive
I have been offering the above to a number of companies, across geographical markets, audiences/segments, channels and with different sets of tactics. I can offer insights, do sparring on ideas or potential tests or provide tools or past case study information. All coming from our consulting experience.
Python
Have been using Python as a code tool to build owned scripts for integrations between marketing, sales, operations, and accounting tools in tech startups and scaleups mainly.
Semrush
Certified SEMRush Pro and have been using the tool for all SEO related activities, from content optimization, competitors analysis, performance analysis
Stripe
Have been using both the code and no-code options of Stripe for client product and service payment flows, both applied to product (SaaS) and service-related busineses
Zapier
Certified Zapier pro using for all kind of no-code integration needs between marketing, sales, operations and accounting tools in tech startups and scaleups
Industries
E-Commerce
In this specific industry we worked with B2B Tech Startups and Scaleups internationally on growth and fundraising and have case studies from which specifically obtain key insights, learnings, best practices, tools used, ecc
Management Consulting
We are a niche venture consulting firm and can therefore provide quite some insights on how to manage a (semi-remote) consulting firm and the challenges that we encountered.
SaaS
In this specific industry we worked with B2B Tech Startups and Scaleups internationally on growth and fundraising and have case studies from which specifically obtain key insights, learnings, best practices, tools used, ecc
B2B
In this specific industry we worked with B2B Tech Startups and Scaleups internationally on growth and fundraising and have case studies from which specifically obtain key insights, learnings, best practices, tools used, ecc
Emerging Markets
We are a consulting firm working in 40+ countries and with many countries in emerging markets and regions (Latin America LATAM, Middle East MENA, South East Asia SEA). Happy to explain differences between DM and EM, how to G2M in these markets and what makes them challenging but also interesting and special
Artificial Intelligence
In this specific industry we worked with B2B Tech Startups and Scaleups internationally on growth and fundraising and have case studies from which specifically obtain key insights, learnings, best practices, tools used, ecc
EdTech
In this specific industry we worked with B2B Tech Startups and Scaleups internationally on growth and fundraising and have case studies from which specifically obtain key insights, learnings, best practices, tools used, ecc
Health Care
In this specific industry we worked with B2B Tech Startups and Scaleups internationally on growth and fundraising and have case studies from which specifically obtain key insights, learnings, best practices, tools used, ecc
Legal Tech
In this specific industry we worked with B2B Tech Startups and Scaleups internationally on growth and fundraising and have case studies from which specifically obtain key insights, learnings, best practices, tools used, ecc
Venture Capital
We have been actively working with venture capital VC funds (mainly formal investors, Series A+) on both the buy side or the sell side. Our companies raised $300M+
Travel
In this specific industry we worked with B2B Tech Startups and Scaleups internationally on growth and fundraising and have case studies from which specifically obtain key insights, learnings, best practices, tools used, ecc
Hardware
In this specific industry we worked with B2B Tech Startups and Scaleups internationally on growth and fundraising and have case studies from which specifically obtain key insights, learnings, best practices, tools used, ecc
Experience
Boutique venture growth consulting firm. 2500+ startups advised, coached and engaged with in 40+ countries, $300M+ funding raised, 1000+ growth tactics tested and validated, 5 Exits
Meetical
Fractional CCO & Head of SalesResponsible for B2B growth of the Meetical Suite across regions globally.
NOI Techpark
VP Financial Services- Led internal financial and strategic growth services for STP's portfolio of 30+ tech startups and 10+ SMEs and corporations in cleantech, energytech, EV/automotive, foodtech, and alpine/sports tech. - Provided business planning & strategy, fundraising (VC, PE and banking, transaction support (sell-side), go-to-market & strategic partnershipsβ especially in Asia (China) for handling international agreements and IP and patent monetization. - Managed team of 3 BAs in Italy and China and contractors and stakeholders (M&A consultants, lawyers, banks, VC and PE firms).
Goldman Sachs
Analyst- Engineering analyst supporting origination, structuring, and market making of all global GS structured and securitized products (on FICC & Equities). - Collaborated in a 20-person team managing US$ 30B in daily open interest. - Drove continuous process improvement by implementing new IT systems, procedures and performance dashboards.
Other
- Conducted reliability physics research for complex hardware consumer products in a joint project between Microsoft, Reliant Labs, Politecnico di Milano, and Stanford University.
Italcementi Group / CONSEL (Accenture)
Business Analyst InternAnalyzing and developing a Best Practice for efficient management of outsourced maintenance contracts