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Sharper strategy. Smarter spends Leaner teams. Stronger boards.

Unicorn Labs partners with startups and scaleups to sharpen brand strategy, optimise marketing spends, design & build AI-era orgs, and bring balanced perspective to startup boards. 

Co-creating with

Pre Series A

Pre-Series A/Series A Founders

Insights. Brand Strategy. Product Innovation. Narrative Design. Marketing/Growth Org Building. Board Advisory. 

Growth Stage Startups. Series A, Series B, Series C funded startups

Growth Stage Founders (Series B+)

Rightsize Spends/Teams/Stacks. Sharpen Brand Strategy. Hack Growth. Build Narratives that drive alignment. Strengthen the Board.

 

Team

CMOs and Large Marketing Teams

Raising AI adoption maturity. Strategic Partnering and Coaching on key problem statements on Consumer Insights, Brand, Growth, and People. 


Why Founders backed by Tier-1 VC’s trrust us (1)-1

What's holding founders back?

Building startups is an extreme sport. Moving at a frantic pace is a necessity. But this has it's side-effects.
The Growth Tangle
The Zoom Trap
Rush Hire Spiral
Spend Validation Syndrome in Marketing
Patchwork AI adoption
Boardroom Echo Chamber

How we help

Unicorn Labs has 3 carefully designed practise areas
Sharpen

Sharpen

Brand Strategy
Company Narrative
GTM Strategy
Org Design
Rightsize

Rightsize

Media Spends
Tool Spends
Teams in the AI-era

 

AI Transformation

Transform

Workflows for AI era efficiency
Team Productivity
Board Effectiveness

 

How we do it

insights

Surgical CXO engagements

Top 1% CMO expertise without the full-time hire. Zoom in and out on burning, executive level problem statements. 

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The Practical Marketer Audit

Diagnose and optimise your spends and stacks in the AI era with Unicorn Lab's Spend Efficiency Engine: The Practical Marketer.

The narrative by big ad tech and big 4 in Media buying ecosystem to 'outspend and outshine' needs to change and get rooted in practicality. We are on a mission to reduce spend inefficiency. 

Independent Board Director. MCA Certified. Startup Board Advisory.

Board Advisory Retainer

Bring strategic, independent marketing and seasoned CXO voice into your board.

 


Karanpreet Bindra Unicorn Labs Fractional CMO

Founder and Chief Strategist

Sitting at the intersection of Business, Psychology, Culture, Strategy, and Technology, Karan is a seasoned operator having spent 2 decades in the global marketing ecosystem, and 7 years in the VC-backed startup ecosystem, successfully strategising and executing 0-1, 1-10, and 10-100 journeys cutting across Marketing, Product, Growth, Design over a 'Full Lifecycle:  Early stage to Unicorn' startups in a CXO capacity,  Incubation to Market Leader journeys for Challenger Consumer Brands, P&L turnarounds at MNCs, with consistent themes of first principles thinking and disruptive innovation in B2C, B2B2C, and B2B environments. 

Work Philosophy: A Purpose-Driven Craft

Not an agency model. This is our Craft, and we want it to be that way. Unicorn Labs is a pure play advisory business model.  
Boutique by Design

Only high-impact work with high-quality clients—no more than 3 active engagements at a time. Staying sharp and continuously widening perspective is a core value. 

Always Hands-on

In every single project. Personal involvement from start to finish. No outsourcing to any B player, ever. 

Always Top 1%

We only pick up areas where we are confident we are the best in the industry. Otherwise, we either refer or get the best folks on board for task at hand.

We would love to learn about your business

Let's catchup over a walk, a coffee, or a two-dimensional zoom call (in this order of preference)