Growth company · Founder & CEO
ENLIX
Organic and paid performance marketing growth that compounds, for high-growth startups and scale-ups, and applied AI for mid-market companies in Europe and the US.
enlix.aiAbout · Lisbon, Portugal
Marco Kohns
- CEO & Founder of ENLIX, LLC
- Former Growth Product Manager, Inc. 5000's #8 Fastest-Growing Private Company in the US
- Published Researcher, Journal of Business Research
- Silicon Valley Reforge-Trained Growth & Product Strategist
Today
Venture growth studio · Founder
ProtoBites
PROTOtypes, BITE-sized: launching, iterating, and scaling bootstrapped growth projects. Portfolio products with 1-10k+ users and/or €10k+ MRR: ERP Pilot and MyPassion.AI. Out of the same portfolio: Globie, an eSIM brand built with travel creators with 15M+ followers. Former growth involvement: designed the growth strategy to scale it to 5-figure monthly revenue.
proto-bites.comAI teaching · Universities & online
Executive education
Teaching 1,500+ students online, plus 10+ executive-education seminars and workshops on AI for business development: C-level, board members, and senior executives, at universities and online, hundreds of participants across Europe.
Teaching profile, Católica LisbonPreviously
Growth Product Manager · Series A to B
Bounce
Product-led user acquisition at a global consumer marketplace backed by a16z, General Catalyst, and Sapphire among other tier-1 Silicon Valley VCs. Headcount grew from ~55 at joining to ~120.
#8
Inc. 5000 US
100+
Countries
20,000+
Cities worldwide
8-figure
ARR
$1M+/mo
Paid ad spend
200-300%
YoY revenue growth
Accelerator · Berlin, DE
Techstars
The world’s most active pre-seed investor. On a mission to build Europe’s #1 launchpad for unicorn companies: consulted 13 early-stage tech startups on customer discovery and pre-seed traction, worked operationally on Deep Tech Momentum, Europe’s leading deep-tech bootcamp, and supported accelerator operations reporting to former C-level executives from N26, HelloFresh, and SoundCloud.
$335B
Portfolio market cap
$55B
Raised by portfolio
29
Unicorns
13
Startups consulted
Background
Mentored directly by Silicon Valley’s top growth experts, including Sean Ellis (Dropbox) and Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite), alongside senior product leaders from Meta, Booking.com and Airbnb among others.
Published researcher in the Journal of Business Research: generative AI in startup growth strategies.
Reforge-trained in Silicon Valley-level growth and product strategy.
Has lived and worked in Berlin, London, Lisbon, San Francisco, Barcelona and Milan.
Expertise
Growth & Performance MarketingPaid Acquisition & Media BuyingAI for Marketing & GrowthProduct-Led Growth
Growth Hacking & ExperimentationSearch Engine OptimizationExecutive AI EducationStartup Growth StrategyProduct ManagementReforge Growth FrameworksInternational Go-to-Market
Education
M.Sc., NOVA Lisbon
18/20 (German equiv. 1.0), top of cohort
Reforge
Growth & Product Strategy programs
Techstars Global Startup Network
Y Combinator-backed founders
Work with Marco
Growth support from first-hand experience
Organic and paid growth that compounds, for startups, scale-ups, and mid-market companies putting AI to work. Looking for support from first-hand experience? Let’s chat.