Kilonova is a boutique strategy & marketing advisory firm. Our services range from advisory to marketing ops, branding and design services. We act as marketing co-founders-as-a-service, offering fractional CMOs and other senior marketing talent, taking responsibility for the marketing practice of a project in its early stages.

We are not a digital agency, although part of the services we provide can typically also offered by agencies or branding studios. The main points of differentiation are: Proximity, Number of concurrent projects and above all, the strategic deliverables in the shape of workshops and business and fundraising plans. We're the result of a strategic management boutique and a full service digital agency becoming one, and joining your project, instead of providing ad hoc services to it.

The most radical difference is the hands on approach. While most advisors prefer to provide perspective, we prefer to join the teams as Executive Advisors, Interim CMOs and covering other senior marketing positions. This way, projects can focus on the tech and product discovery, while we can take responsibility for narrative formation, fundraising strategy, community growth, partnership development, branding and the performance of touch-points such as website, pitch deck and other essential assets that can make or break a project early on.

We can. Our engagements are tailored for the needs of each client. For projects with established teams, beyond advice, we can also provide frameworks, blueprints, and ensure adherence to plans and OKRs through mentoring and oversight.

While we'd like to do that, we can't ensure success, as there are several factors that contribute to the success of a project. So far, we have been honored to enable over $100m of fundraising across projects and all projects we have worked with are alive and well. We like to think that we're either very competent, or very lucky. Or both.

The perfect client for us is a strong, visionary early-stage team, that has raised a Friends&Family round or received some funding through grants and wants to raise 24 months of runway in the next 6-12 months, preferably through tokens, or a blend of equity and tokens. We deliver the most value when the teams do not have a developed marketing practice, or feel that the current structure is too expensive for the results it delivers.

We are a crypto native firm and we want to stay focused, but we love to see it when companies from other segments want to adopt blockchain as a key differential. We are particularly interested in companies who are able to combine exponential technologies in a way that can disrupt large markets that have been thinking the same way for too long.

Occasionally, we invest in the projects we are working with. In rare instances that we're too busy to take on a new project, we may be interested in investing and staying close to the project, so don't hesitate in reaching out if that's what you're looking for.

Typically, we join projects in their pre-seed stage and work with them until post TGE. We have done this process a few times, and the engagement length was 8-10 months. Bull markets move faster than Bear markets, so the engagement length may vary. Our revenue model balances short term incentives (very reasonable retainer fees) with tokens and / or equity. The fiat component can represent 15-50% of the contract value, depending on our conviction and founder preference.

Please refer to our case-study section to learn a bit more about our work and the achievements we have achieved with our clients.