Founder-CEO Growth Advisory
AmerEU advises funded technology founders as they move from early traction to repeatable growth, operational discipline and scalable leadership. International founders receive the additional cultural and market guidance needed to enter the United States and thrive in Silicon Valley.
Work directly with Hans Bukow — a serial venture-backed technology founder and CEO who has built companies across multiple technology generations, markets and economic cycles, and who is actively building in the AI era.
$35M+
venture capital raised
250+
professionals hired
20+
offices built or staffed
3
continents of operating experience
6+ M&As + IPO
strategic exits
The post-funding inflection point
Raising capital does not by itself create a scalable company. It raises expectations, compresses timelines and creates the obligation to build the growth systems, leadership and execution discipline the next stage requires.
Most founders arrive here with the same set of open questions: which parts of go-to-market are actually repeatable, what has to become measurable, who needs to own what, and where the next round of spending is justified by evidence rather than optimism.
Three growth requirements
These are not a proprietary methodology. They are the three requirements that recur in nearly every company at this stage — and where advisory work tends to concentrate.
Move from founder-led selling and opportunistic wins to a repeatable understanding of buyer, value, sales motion and market priorities.
Create the management visibility, accountability, cash discipline and execution cadence required to make increasingly expensive growth decisions.
Build leadership, systems and investment priorities that let the company grow without letting headcount, complexity and spending outrun evidence.
Ways to work with AmerEU
Ongoing
Ongoing confidential counsel for funded founders, with a defined monthly cadence and reasonable access for time-sensitive questions.
Focused
A short, defined engagement addressing one material question — the lower-friction way to experience the working relationship first.
Specialty
AmerEU's most proven specialty, available as an ongoing advisory engagement or a focused sprint.
Proven specialty
International and immigrant founders need more than a market-entry plan. They need someone who understands how US customers, investors, employees, partners and boards interpret value, credibility, urgency, risk and leadership.
The work is translation, not replacement. What made you successful at home is an asset; the task is to make it legible to an American market and calibrate everything else around it.
Current relevance
From factory automation and enterprise software to cloud platforms and agentic AI, Hans has built through successive transformations in how technology companies create and capture value.
AI has changed what companies can build, how fast they can operate and what investors expect. It has not eliminated the need for repeatable go-to-market, operational control, leadership, capital discipline and sound CEO judgment.
Category building in manufacturing execution software
Category building in vendor management systems
Scaling, turnaround and exit experience
Currently building and advising AI-era companies
Referrals
“For nearly a decade Hans has helped me with Plataforma and now Kodie grow an international impact IT services company.”
“Hans was critical in Lexi's evolution into now recognized as a leading edge AIoT company.”
“Kompyte survived the pandemic and had a successful exit to Semrush because of Hans' help.”
“Over the years Hans has been a highly experienced go-to founder-CEO counselor that our portfolio companies can and have counted on for “what next?” help.”
“Hans helped us in Brazil and then worked on planning AXUR's global vision — excellent advice.”
“Hans' pioneering work in online staffing helped us get Candidately to success.”
“Hans planned and delivered funding for JExperts to go to the next growth level.”
“Hans delivered successful cross-border execution to help our investment and leadership team acquire Revolution.”
“As AI has transformed the tech landscape, Hans has advised myself and our partners, as well as driving expansion with The ScaleBridge Program and Globiant internationally.”
About Hans
A serial venture-backed technology founder and CEO who has built, financed, scaled, repositioned, turned around and exited technology companies across four decades of technology change.
The point of this history is not the résumé. It is pattern recognition — the ability to look at your company's current stage and recognize which problem you actually have, which one is a symptom, and what a founder in your position doesn't want to get wrong next.
Insights
The specific capabilities investors assume you are building after a round closes — and the order in which they actually have to be built.
What genuinely has to change when an international founder enters the US market, and what should be protected rather than assimilated.
Where AI genuinely alters the product, the organization and the business model, and where it simply raises the bar on execution.
Start a conversation
The first conversation is straightforward: your stage, the decision in front of you, and whether direct advisory work is the right answer for it. If it isn't, you'll hear that too.
Prefer to write first? Use the form — it reaches Hans directly.
Details on how enquiries are handled are in the privacy notice.
