Partner Utopia

Ready to Get Funded? Yes, Please! I'm excited to announce that I’ll be attending Pitch Perfect Season 3 on Oct 24th at 6PM ( details below) , organized by team at VABA Venture Capital. Engaging with investors has really helped refine our pitch and product roadmap. Why are we looking for funding? Partner Utopia is an AI-powered SaaS platform that helps tech companies grow through partnerships. We boost partner success rates, speed up ROI, and maximize revenue potential—all while eliminating outdated manual processes that lead to over 50% of partnerships failing. We’ve bootstrapped to develop our MVP, which launched on August 13th and has already attracted over 300 trial users. We’re raising $1M to fuel our growth and innovation. I look forward to connecting with active VCs, angel investors, fund managers, and decision-makers from banks and corporate sectors, as well as networking with over 30 international companies and mid-sized to large private equity firms from Asia to explore partnerships and investments. thank you Wendy Nguyen, MBA and the team for putting this event together Event Details: Date: October 24, 2024 Time: 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT Location: Sonesta Silicon Valley, 1800 Barber Ln, Milpitas, CA 95035, USA Register now: https://lnkd.in/g7h3PqBu

Getting a partner playbook while drowning in partnership chaos is like receiving a lifebuoy full of paperwork—helpful, but not really saving you from the deep end. In 2024, relying on playbooks, templates, and best practice guides to tackle labor-intensive manual problems feels a bit outdated, don’t you think? Join Rachael Rogers, MBA and me at the upcoming online event where we unveil the world’s first AI-driven approach to managing all those manual, risky, and time-consuming tasks in partnership strategy. With Partner Utopia, we help you tackle essential questions like: Should you partner? If so, with whom? And how? Discover how companies like GitLab are leveraging AI to streamline their partnership strategies and achieve better results. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to rethink how you manage partnerships! Register here https://lnkd.in/ebzFY-gd Partnership Leaders Justin Zimmerman

Playbooks are nice, but buttons are better! Imagine this: instead of flipping through endless templates, wouldn’t it be great to have a button that figures everything out for you and just gets it done? That’s the lightbulb moment I had when brainstorming the concept behind Partner Utopia Sure, having a playbook for those tricky, manual problems is like getting a roadmap, but let’s be real—who wants to do all the driving? Take crafting a Joint Value Proposition (JVP), for example. It’s all about blending the unique voices and branding of both companies while hitting the sweet spot for your audience. Plus, you need to ensure there are no competitive vibes sneaking in, all while optimizing for SEO. Sounds like a lot, right? You could follow a playbook, or you could let Partner Utopia work its magic. Just tell us about your company, your partner company, and what you hope to achieve together. We’ll crunch thousands of data points and whip up the perfect JVP in less than a second. And guess what? You get to see the building blocks of your JVP, so you can tweak and play until it’s just right! This is just a sneak peek at one of the hundreds of features we’ll be rolling out over the next year to help partner managers like you work smarter, not harder. Curious to see it in action? Jump in and start your free trial today at PartnerUtopia.com Reg link below in comments ! I can’t wait to hear what you think! Jessica Kobilova Partnership Leaders

I’m now a co-host on one of my favorite shows, and in our first episode, we dive into the question: what on earth is a Chief Partner Officer, and what movement is this role creating? A few months ago, I met Brian💥 Sparkes and struggled to articulate why partnerships fascinate me. Instead of brushing me off, Brian helped me refine my message, and soon, he was just as excited about partnerships as I am! This collaboration led to an incredible opportunity: Brian invited me to be a monthly co-host on Silicon Valley Impact! In this episode, I’m joined by Asher Mathew, founder of the vibrant community of Partnership Leaders, and Matthew Harrell , a CPO at a fast-growing startup Dataminr. We explore the rapid growth of technology partnerships, how companies are leveraging these partnerships to offset layoffs in sales and engineering, and the significance of the Chief Partner Officer role. Join us as we navigate these exciting topics and share why my co-founders and I decided to leave our comfortable corporate jobs to launch Partner Utopia! Follow us on Spotify and listen to all our episodes at: https://lnkd.in/eTadUyiC IgniteGTM Jessica Kobilova

Should you invest in partnering with other companies? If yes, then which companies, and how can you maximize growth through these partners? Imagine having all these questions answered by an AI-powered SaaS platform. At Partner Utopia, we're dedicated to helping businesses navigate these complexities. Join our advisory board member Rachael Rogers, MBA and our CEO Delya Jansen at the upcoming event dedicated to exploring the latest tech stack for partnership professionals and learn how Partner Utopia along with many other great technologies are elevating our fellow partnership professionals. Hosted by Justin Zimmerman, this online deep dive features insights into the best in partner tech, including Crossbeam, Superglue, EULER, Partner Fleet, and many more. Sign up here https://lnkd.in/e4zRxdEz As a partner manager, director, VP, or executive responsible for selecting the right people, processes, or tools to grow your co-sell, integration, or cloud partnerships, this event puts all your best options right in front of you. Partnership Leaders

Exciting News from Partner Utopia! We're thrilled to showcase our demo at the INFRA Summit on September 27th in San Francisco, where we’ll introduce our powerful feature for creating Joint Value Propositions (JVPs). This is just one of the hundreds of features we plan to roll out over the next six months, all designed to help you tell your "better together" story with any partner of your choice. Here’s how it works: 1️⃣ Create an account and sign up for a free trial here https://lnkd.in/efzphKBp 2️⃣ Provide basic info about your company and your partner of choice 3️⃣ Our AI generates key bullet points on strengths, common goals, and customer benefits 4️⃣ Review, edit, and regenerate until you have a JVP you love Join us at the summit and see how Partner Utopia can transform your partnership strategies! Use COMMUNITY_DELYA to get 20% off tickets: AI Infra Summit https://www.aiinfra.live/ IgniteGTM Partnership Leaders

🚀 Our MVP is Live! 🚀 From #catalyst24 First, a huge thank you to everyone who signed up for our waitlist and helped us validate the need behind the world’s first Partner Strategy platform. We’re excited to announce that our MVP is now live! Sign up here https://lnkd.in/d_pEFtjy For our launch, we’re starting with a powerful feature that allows you to create Joint Value Propositions (JVPs) with any partner of your choice. Here’s how it works: Create an account and sign up for a free trial. Provide basic info about your company and your partner of choice. Our AI generates key bullet points on strengths, common goals, and customer benefits. Review, edit, and regenerate as needed until you get a JVP you love. 🎉 Special Offer: As a thank you for your support, we’re offering a discounted price for the next 12 months after your trial ends. Anyone on our waitlist now, and new customers who sign up for the MVP in August, will be grandfathered into a heavily discounted fee as we continue to roll out more features of the platform. in the pic is the team who is making it happen Ali Rashidifar, Delya Jansen and Ilya Rogovoy thank you Partnership Leaders for this great event!

My 1 min pitch at Pitch-Force event last week. Partner Utopia was created to revolutionize the strategy phase of ecosystem partnerships in B2B. Today, ecosystem partnerships are critical to companies' success, driving $300B in added revenue through new customer acquisition, boosting brand awareness, and driving technical innovation. With over 15 years in this space, I've seen firsthand that 50% of these partnerships fail due to poor strategy. Currently, there is nothing on the market to streamline the strategy phase with the latest advancements in automation and AI. So, I gathered a team of technical experts, and together, we are building the world's first SaaS platform for partner strategy. We plan to be ready for exit in 5 years, anticipating an acquisition in the range of $200M-$250M. We bootstrapped $200K, achieved an MVP, completed testing with 300 users, and have 200 waitlist users. We are now raising $500K on a SAFE note for product innovation, customer acquisition, and talent onboarding. link to full video here https://lnkd.in/eqejcVcv thank you Max Shapiro for this opportunity. thank you Basel Salahieh for recording it ! Thank you the team at IgniteGTM for supporting my find raising adventure Bill Barry and Jessica Kobilova

My biggest fear is ending up with a product that solves yesterday's problems. Here's what we do to prevent that. Continuous Real-World Learning. We onboard customers whose needs match our platform's capabilities in helping them with foundational steps such as: Figuring out partner strategy Building lists of target partners Creating joint marketing materials Setting up goals and metrics Then, we manually do the work for them in a few days. This hands-on approach allows us to train our custom AI. Benefits to Our Customers Immediate Results Although not as fast as an AI platform would do it, it's faster than if they were to do it themselves. Customers get access to completed projects that would otherwise take them months to do on their own. Cost Savings They avoid hiring expensive consultants by leveraging our expertise and AI-driven processes. Contribute to Their Future They get to contribute to a solution that will help them individually and elevate partner teams as a whole to the next level. Many folks in Partnership Leaders community are taking advantage of this opportunity. Reach out to us if you'd like us to help you with any of your partnerships strategy work.

I'm going to skip the usual cheerleading about how awesome partnerships are. Partnerships can seem super vague and confusing to anyone outside of partner professionals My topic for #Catalyst24 will challenge the audience to think of the ecosystem in a very different way. To disrupt this confusion for your sales, product, and marketing teams, start showing your ecosystem as a flowing river instead of a confusing cluster. The river represents the customer’s buying decision. Decide where you are in that decision flow, aka the river. Then see which companies are upstream vs downstream from you. Upstream: These partners can deliver leads and referrals to you. Downstream: These partners have a different but equally important value of creating momentum as you pick up speed to achieve customer retention and satisfaction. By visualizing your partnerships as a river, you can clarify their roles and impacts, making it easier to communicate their value across your organization. Let’s embrace this new way of thinking and make our partnerships flow smoothly and effectively. Partnership Leaders