Jenn Krentz
Pitch Coach for Non-Native English Speaking Tech Founders
For seed and Series A founders, and their leadership teams
Your business is fundable. Your team is capable. Now let's make sure every room knows it.
You know your business. You know your numbers. You know exactly why your company is going to work.
But knowing it and communicating it under pressure, in an investor room, in front of a client, in front of your own growing team, are different skills. The founders and teams who can do both are the ones who close the round, land the client, and keep everyone pulling in the same direction.
I work with seed and Series A tech founders preparing to pitch, and with the leadership teams they build once the company grows past just the founders. Many of my clients are non-native English speaking founders and teams from Canada, the US, Latin America, and Europe, navigating investor room culture, client conversations, and communication expectations that were not built for them.
What they have in common is this: they have something worth funding, worth buying, or worth trusting, and they are not going to let how they communicate it be the reason it does not land.
Most Pitch Coaching Fixes the Wrong Thing.
More slides. Better graphics. A tighter script. None of it solves the real risk.
Investors are evaluating you: your clarity, your conviction, how you handle it when someone pushes back on your numbers. Break under that pressure and the deck stops mattering.
Add a language that isn't your first, investors who don't understand your market, and rules nobody ever writes down, and now you're carrying risk that has nothing to do with your product.
That's not a talent problem. It's a communication risk, and it's fixable.
Once you can say what you mean under pressure, you stop over-explaining in board meetings, and losing the thread on sales calls, too.
Most Executive Communication Coaching Fixes the Wrong Thing, Too.
More confidence tips. Better talking points. A tighter message. None of it solves the real risk.
Most communication coaching focuses on what to say. Say this, not that. Lead with the outcome. Cut the filler. All useful, but none of it is the hard part.
The hard part is how it comes out under pressure: the pacing, the hesitation, the moment where the room can feel someone reaching for a word instead of just saying it. That's not a script problem. It's a delivery problem, and for a growing share of leadership teams, it's also a language problem nobody's trained for.
If part of your team is operating in a second language, this gets sharper. A sentence that's technically correct in English can still land as smaller, less certain, or less confident than the person actually is, and it has nothing to do with vocabulary.
It's the difference between what reads as direct in one culture and abrupt in another. What reads as formal respect in one culture but distance in another.
Most executive coaches have never had to work at that layer, because most executive coaches have never taught language.
I have. That's the difference.
Is This You?
1. Seed Founders Raising $1M+: You have real traction and a deck that should be working, but you're leaving meetings unsure what they thought, and you can't figure out what's off. It's not your business. It's how you're communicating it. That's fixable, and it doesn't take as long as you think.
2. Series A Founders: You've already raised once, but the bar is higher now. Investors are scrutinizing every assumption, every metric, every word. You need to communicate like someone who's done this before, even if this is only your second time in the room. The founders who close Series A don't just have better businesses, they have tighter stories and stronger delivery under pressure.
3. Non-Native English Speaking Founders: Your English is usually good enough. That's not the problem. The problem is that you sound like a different person in English than you are in your own language: Smaller, less certain, and less like the founder who built your company. You're not missing fluency. You're missing the unwritten playbook for how North American investors expect to be spoken to, and the delivery tools to sound like yourself while doing it. That's what we work on.
4. First Time Technical Founders: You've built something real and you know the technology inside out. But when an investor asks you to explain it simply, you either over-explain the architecture or undersell what it actually does for the customer. The problem isn't your knowledge. It's that nobody ever taught you how to translate technical depth into investor language. That's exactly what I do.
5. Growing Leadership Teams: Your company has outgrown the founders. You've hired, and now your CTO, your Head of Sales, and your CEO are each describing the business slightly differently, and there's no one on staff whose job it is to fix that. This isn't about one pitch. It's about your whole team telling one consistent story, to clients, to new hires, to each other. That's what Communication Training for Global Founding Teams is built for.
Why Founders Work With Me
Most communication coaches focus on what to say. I focus on how it lands, and for a lot of my clients, on the language layer most coaches never touch.
I have a drama degree, 20 years of teaching experience, and TESOL training, which means I understand not just what you're saying, but how your body, voice, breath, and presence either back it up or undermine it. I also understand what it takes to communicate with precision and confidence in a language that isn't your first.
That combination is unusual in the startup world, and it's exactly what founders and growing teams need when they're walking into a room where everything is on the line.
I work on the challenges that actually show up:
How to explain complex technology simply
How to build credibility as a first-time CEO, or as a leadership team still finding its shared voice
How to navigate high-stakes conversations, investor, client, or internal, when the stakes are everything
In the AI-powered build era, communication is the real bottleneck. Anyone can ship a product, but not everyone can make the room believe in it.
You'll get honest, specific feedback on what actually matters, not generic communication theory, empty praise, or a framework that falls apart in the moment that counts.
I've helped tech founders secure funding, close enterprise deals, nail conference talks, and build the executive presence their companies and teams needed them to have.
Ways To Work with Me
Private 1:1 and Team Pitch Coaching
Personalized pitch and communication coaching for tech founders raising Seed through Series A
Fundraising is not the time for generic pitch advice. You need coaching built around your company, your investors, and the moments where your message needs to land.
Whether you are pitching solo or with your leadership team, every program is customized around your raise. We work on your story, your delivery, your investor conversations, and the communication skills needed to present with clarity and confidence under pressure.
Communication Training For Leadership Teams
Group workshops, cohorts, and retainers for growing teams
Your leadership team is brilliant. They're just not always saying the same thing. As companies grow past the founders, there's rarely anyone whose job it is to keep the whole team aligned on how to talk about the business, to clients, to new hires, to each other.
I build that training with you: shared narrative, executive presence, and cross-border communication for teams operating in a second language.
Audits & Communication Services
Fast async support.
Not ready for coaching, or just need a second pair of eyes? Get expert feedback on your deck, your delivery, or your company's website and messaging, plus async audits for teams who need clarity but don't have time for coaching. Delivered on your timeline. No calls required.
Self-Study Playbooks
The investor psychology, the delivery guidance, and the pitch frameworks at your own pace.
Not ready for coaching yet? The playbooks give you the structure, the investor psychology, and the delivery guidance for every section of your pitch. Used by seed and Series A founders raising from North American investors.
Accelerator & Startup Communication Training
Get your cohort pitch-ready before demo day
Customized remote workshops covering investor pitch training, technical-to-investor translation, cross-cultural communication, and leadership development for founders scaling their teams. From 90-minute sessions to full-day intensives, built around your cohort's specific stage and challenges.
Common Questions from International Founders
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This is exactly who I work with. My programs are built specifically for non-native English speaking and global founders raising from North American investors. I combine TESOL training, 20+ years of communication coaching, and deep knowledge of what seed and Series A investors expect in the room. If you are raising from North American investors and English is your second language, you are in the right place.
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The goal is not to sound like a native English speaker. The goal is to sound like a founder investors trust.
I help international founders communicate with clarity and confidence. We cut the filler, simplify complex ideas, strengthen delivery, and prepare for tough investor questions without sounding rehearsed.
The biggest shift isn't your English. It's getting the founder who built the company to show up in the room instead of the version that's busy translating, overthinking every word, or trying to sound "perfect."
Many of my clients are based in Latin America, Europe, and other regions while raising capital from North American investors. They don't need a different personality. They need to communicate their expertise in a way investors immediately understand.
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Accelerators focus on your business model. I focus on you, how you sound, how you handle pressure, and whether investors trust what they are hearing. Founders who have been through YC, Latitud, Techstars, and other top programs often come to me because they have a strong deck but their delivery is not landing. I fill the gap accelerators do not have time for.
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This is exactly who I work with. My programs are built specifically for non-native English speaking and global founders raising from North American investors, combining TESOL training, 20 years of communication coaching, and deep knowledge of what seed and Series A investors expect in the room. If you are raising from North American investors and English is your second language, you are in the right place.
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Both. Deliver Your Deck and Team Cohort are built for founders preparing to pitch investors, solo or together. If your company has grown past the founders and your leadership team needs to get aligned on how you talk about the business, to clients, to new hires, to each other, Communication Training for Global Founding Teams is built for that. And if you run an accelerator or incubator, Accelerator Training brings this work to your full cohort.