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Editorial coverage for founders building companies that diligence officers and recruiters actually search for.

Series A through D, with the embargo discipline of a public company. Fundraise announces, founder profiles, recruiting coverage, and POV bylines. We coordinate with your securities counsel and IR team by default. Real placements in TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Forbes, WSJ.

Stage fit
Series A through D
Reg fluency
506(b)/(c), Reg FD
Embargo discipline
TechCrunch, Bloomberg, WSJ
Tier-1 guarantee
Published or refunded
Why funded companies invest in earned media

Four reasons founders move from agency-as-megaphone to agency-as-narrative-architect.

01

Investor signal during the next round.

Series B and later rounds increasingly close in part on the strength of the founder's narrative footprint. A clean run of TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and WSJ coverage tells the next investor's diligence team that the company can attract attention without paying for it.

02

Talent recruiting at the senior end.

Top-decile engineers and operators read TechCrunch, The Information, and Bloomberg before they read your careers page. Editorial coverage is the most effective top-of-funnel for senior recruiting after a board-level intro. The companies hiring well are the ones hiring people who saw them in print first.

03

Enterprise sales pipeline.

B2B founders selling into enterprise know that procurement diligence searches the company name. A page-one of editorial coverage shortens the trust ramp. A page-one of pay-to-play directories does the opposite.

04

M&A and exit positioning.

Strategic acquirers value cleaner. Public-market buyers value differently again. A coordinated narrative arc across two years of editorial coverage sets the frame for the conversation the bankers will run. We have seen valuation premiums move on this.

Regulatory landscape

The fundraise rules, embargo norms, and timing constraints we work inside.

The cost of a misfired pitch is more than reputational. We coordinate with your counsel by default.

  • SEC Rule 506(b) versus 506(c)

    Companies raising under Rule 506(b) cannot engage in general solicitation. We do not run external PR around an open 506(b) round. Companies raising under 506(c) can solicit, but the company must take reasonable steps to verify accredited-investor status. We coordinate timing with your securities counsel and stay on the right side of the line.

  • Reg FD for public companies

    Once a portfolio company goes public, Reg FD prohibits selective disclosure of material non-public information. Pitches around earnings and material announcements are coordinated with IR and follow your disclosure schedule. We do not embargo material information selectively.

  • Embargo norms across outlets

    TechCrunch and Bloomberg generally honor embargoes. WSJ and the New York Times sometimes do not. Embargo strategy is set during the brief: which outlet leads, which run simultaneously, what the second-day coverage looks like. We tell you the truth about each outlet's behavior, including when an embargo is likely to break.

  • Lock-ups, S-1 quiet periods, and material event timing

    Pre-IPO and post-IPO timing is coordinated with your underwriting team and IR. We do not run founder profiles into a quiet period and do not pitch funding announcements during an active S-1 review. Timing is one of the variables we manage, not one we ignore.

Sample placements

Headlines for founder and venture-backed engagements.

Identifying details removed at client request. Full engagement narratives live on the Results page.

  • TechCrunchSeries B announce

    A vertical-AI company raises $42M Series B led by Sequoia to ship agents into pharmaceutical operations.

  • BloombergFounder profile

    Why a developer-tools founder turned down a strategic acquisition to keep building independently.

  • ForbesForbes 30 Under 30 candidate

    The infrastructure founder behind the model layer most generative-AI companies actually run on.

  • WSJEnterprise SaaS

    Inside the security-software company quietly competing with Cloudflare for the developer market.

  • Yahoo!FinanceFintech

    How a fintech infrastructure startup hit $20M ARR without a single outbound sales hire.

  • BUSINESS INSIDEROperator POV

    The founders building tools for the AI agent economy share what they learned shipping into a moving market.

Headlines lightly anonymized. Full engagement narratives, with metrics and client quotes, live on the Results page.

Engagement scope

Founder engagements scale from single placements through quarterly campaigns coordinated with a fundraise to annual partnerships. Investment is shared on application after the editorial brief.

Begin

Bring us your next milestone. We will name the outlets, the embargoes, and the day it should run.

Thirty-minute editorial brief, no obligation. We tell you which publications are realistic for your story before you commit.