Martin Gontovnikas
General Partner at HyperGrowth Partners
Berkeley, California
Overview
Work Experience
B2B SaaS Advisor and General Partner
2021 - Current
We help B2B startups grow faster in exchange for equity. We help startups with GTM, specifically focused on Product-Led Growth, ABM Outbound, and Automated outbound. We are a team of senior (VP, SVP) B2B marketers with significant experience at high-growth startups (Segment, Gorgias, Drift, Auth0, Atlassian, G2).
A sweat equity advisor that invests its partners time & knowledge to help companies achieve hypergrowth.
Growth Advisor
2024
I'm helping Neon.tech with Growth Product and Growth Marketing. I'm helping them improve their conversion from free accounts to self service paid accounts and increase the new free accounts from icp companies.
Neon is an open-source database company that offers a serverless Postgres platform that allows developers to build applications.
Raised $129,600,000.00 from Notable Capital, Abstract, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Menlo Ventures and General Catalyst.
Growth Advisor
2022
I advise Clerk.dev on Product growth, including strategies to improve activation, retention and conversion. I also advise the team on marketing strategies to acquire developers
Clerk develops a software application to provide a sign-up and sign-in page for any website and profile management.
Raised $84,499,976.00 from Stripe, Madrona, CRV and Andreessen Horowitz.
Growth Advisor
2024
I'm helping AirOps with their Growth, Product, and Marketing Strategy and Tactics
AirOps allows users to create AI-enabled applications on top of Large Language Models (LLMs).
Raised $22,500,000.00 from JD Ross, Alt Capital, Wing Venture Capital, Lauryn Motamedi, David Rogier, Unusual Ventures, Xfund and Founder Collective.
Madrona Scout
2023
I'm a Madrona scout looking for great companies and awesome founders to invest in.
Madrona is a venture firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Growth Advisor
2023 - 2024
I advise Retool on marketing startegy, developer marketing and product growth programs.
Retool is a software development company that offers solutions in AI apps, documentation, developer tools, and external apps.
Raised $141,000,000.00 from John Collison, Daniel Gross, Nat Friedman, Caryn Marooney, Elad Gil, Patrick Collison, Sequoia Capital, Sequoia Capital, Bond and John Collison.
Growth & Marketing Advisor
2021 - 2024
I advise Vercel on their GTM strategy. I'm helping them craft and execute a top-down strategy that targets Director/VP of Product Management and Engineering. At the same time, I'm helping them double down, and optimize their product-led growth (PLG) strategy with developers. Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance.
Interim CMO
2023 - 2024
I ran marketing and growth in Vercel while the current head of marketing is on leave.
Vercel is a software company that provides cloud infrastructure services to save and secure personalized web.
Raised $563,000,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, SV Angel, Google Ventures, Notable Capital, Geodesic Capital, 8VC, Bedrock, Accel and CRV.
Marketing Advisor
2023 - 2024
I advise Deepgram on all things Marketing, specially focused on DevRel, PLG, Demand Gen and Product Marketing. I also act as the head of marketing during the CMO's paternity leave
Power your apps with real-time voice AI by Deepgram
Raised $85,920,000.00 from SAP.iO, Wing Venture Capital, NVIDIA, Tiger Global Management, BlackRock, Citi Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Madrona, Alkeon Capital and Y Combinator.
Growth Advisor
2023 - 2024
I advise Ashby on Marketing Strategy and Demand Gen
Ashby develops human resource software to assist companies with hiring and manpower management.
Raised $70,010,755.00 from Elad Gil, Y Combinator, F-Prime Capital and Lachy Groom.
GTM Advisor
2022 - 2023
I advise Spot.ai on their GTM strategy including outbound strategy, GTM planning, and team structure.