For High-Growth B2B SaaS & Enterprise Tech Scaleups

Your Next Funding Round
Starts with Media Authority

EstablishCred engineers guaranteed tier-1 placements for high-growth B2B tech companies — from Forbes and Inc to AI-cited vendor recommendations — across every stage of your buyer's journey.

0% clients featured within 30 days
0+ B2B tech brands scaled
0M+ media impressions delivered
0 days to first tier-1 placement — guaranteed
Forbes Inc Magazine VentureBeat Fast Company Business Insider TechCrunch USA Today Bloomberg ChatGPT Citations Perplexity Results Industry Podcasts Trade Publications Forbes Inc Magazine VentureBeat Fast Company Business Insider TechCrunch USA Today Bloomberg ChatGPT Citations Perplexity Results Industry Podcasts Trade Publications
The Problem

Traditional PR is Broken
for B2B Tech

Most PR firms take your retainer, pitch a few reporters, and hand you a vanity metrics report. No guarantees. No pipeline attribution. No competitive urgency. Your Series B window doesn't wait.

  • Retainers with no accountability 6-12 month contracts with nothing guaranteed — just "relationships" and hope.
  • Junior teams learning on your dime Your account is handed to an associate while partners chase bigger logos.
  • Vanity metrics that can't close deals Impressions and clip reports that mean nothing to your CFO or next investor.
  • Sponsored content dressed as editorial Pay-to-play "features" that sophisticated buyers immediately dismiss.
Traditional PR Agency
EstablishCred
Retainers, no guarantees
Guaranteed placements or you know exactly why
3-6+ months to first result
First tier-1 feature in 30 days
Black-box reporting
Real-time pitch tracking + private Slack
Junior account managers
Former Forbes, Inc & VentureBeat writers
Impressions & clip counts
Pipeline acceleration tracking in Salesforce
Press releases only
Full-funnel: Tier-1 + Trade + Podcasts + AI
No AI citation strategy
Engineered to surface in ChatGPT & Perplexity
Our Method

We Don't Optimize
for Impressions

We engineer buyer journey influence — from the first time a prospect hears your name to the moment they type your brand into an AI and see you recommended as the obvious choice.

PR is no longer linear. It compounds across surfaces. We map every placement to your revenue funnel so your marketing team can finally attribute PR to pipeline.

"Most PR firms optimize for impressions. We engineer buyer journey influence — from awareness to AI-driven decision making."
TOFU Visibility Layer
MOFU Authority Layer
BOFU Validation Layer
Press Releases

Funding, Launch & Milestone Announcements

Product launches, funding announcements, partnerships, and milestones that create initial brand awareness and signal momentum across news surfaces.

Creates legitimacy + frequency of presence across search, news aggregators, and investor feeds.
Tier 2 & Syndicated Coverage

Yahoo Finance, Business Insider Syndications

Early mid-tier pickups that expand your press narrative and build brand familiarity before buyers have intent — reinforcing brand repetition across channels.

Builds search footprint and brand repetition before active buyer interest forms.
Broad Podcast Appearances

Founder Storytelling & Category POV Shows

Widely listened to entrepreneur and tech podcasts that introduce your brand narrative and founder credibility at scale to passive but receptive audiences.

Humanizes brand early and builds founder authority before the competition even notices you.
Tier 1 Earned Media

Forbes, Inc, VentureBeat, USA Today

Flagship editorial placements with former staff writers — not sponsored content. The third-party validation that positions your company as a category leader during buyer consideration.

Reduces perceived risk. Buyers begin associating your brand with authority.
Trade & Industry Publications

FinTech, HRTech, Cybersecurity Verticals

Deep niche relevance within your ICP's industry — the outlets your exact buyers read every morning. Aligns your message with buyer-specific pain points and use cases.

Buyers see you as a serious, credible vendor in their specific niche.
Niche Industry Podcasts

Targeted ICP Vertical Shows

Shows your exact buyers subscribe to. Long-form credibility that builds trust and familiarity before your first sales touchpoint — the warm introduction that scales.

Buyers begin recognizing your brand repeatedly, triggering familiarity bias.
Category Narrative Coverage

Positioning vs. Competitors & Category Definition

Articles that define the buying criteria in your favor — positioning your approach as the obvious evolution from legacy methods before buyers build their shortlist.

Controls the narrative during vendor consideration. Shapes how buyers evaluate all competitors.
AI Citations (LLMs)

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini Mentions

As buyers increasingly use AI to research vendors, your earned media becomes the source layer. We engineer placements specifically to surface in AI-generated vendor recommendations.

You become the default answer during AI-assisted vendor discovery — the fastest-growing research channel in B2B.
High-Intent Trade Features

"Best Tools", "Top Platforms", Vendor Comparisons

Bottom-funnel search-capture content in respected industry outlets — the exact content a buyer finds when searching "best [category] platform for [use case]."

Converts media presence directly into pipeline by capturing active evaluation intent.
Authority Stacking

Omnipresence Across All Surfaces

The compounding effect of a buyer seeing your brand across Tier 1, trade outlets, podcasts, and AI responses simultaneously. Repetition removes hesitation at the decision moment.

Creates the "I keep hearing about them" effect that accelerates deal velocity.
Late-Stage Podcast Reinforcement

Decision-Stage Brand Validation

When a buyer who heard you on a podcast months ago is now actively evaluating vendors, hearing you again confirms their instinct. Cross-funnel repetition closes deals faster.

Strengthens decision confidence. Repetition across formats increases conversion probability.
Podcasts don't sit in one stage — they compound across the entire funnel.

TOFU: Founder storytelling → awareness  ·  MOFU: Industry-specific shows → trust  ·  BOFU: Repeated exposure → decision reinforcement

See How It Works for You
What We Deliver

Six Months to
Category Authority

One integrated engagement. Multiple surfaces. A brand that shows up everywhere your buyers look — and in every AI model they ask.

01

Tier-1 Media Engineering

Guaranteed placements in Forbes, Inc, VentureBeat, Fast Company, USA Today, and Bloomberg — written by former staff journalists who know exactly what editors want. Not sponsored content. Real editorial coverage.

Forbes Inc VentureBeat Fast Company Bloomberg
02

Trade & Vertical Media Strategy

Precision placements in the niche publications your exact ICPs read daily — FinTech journals, HR Tech outlets, cybersecurity publications, and vertical SaaS media that your buyers trust above all others.

FinTech HRTech Cybersecurity HealthTech SaaS
03

Podcast Authority Program

Curated appearances on podcasts across all funnel stages — broad founder storytelling shows for awareness, industry-specific shows for consideration, and high-credibility niche shows for decision reinforcement.

Cross-Funnel Founder POV Industry Niche
04

AI Citation Engineering

The future of vendor discovery is happening in LLMs. We engineer your earned media specifically to be the source layer that ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini pull from when buyers ask who the top vendors are in your category.

ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini BOFU
05

Journalist-Grade Content Creation

Every pitch, every article, every narrative — written by former tier-1 journalists. Not AI-generated templates or junior copywriters. Editorial quality that editors actually want to run and that buyers actually trust.

Editorial Quality Ex-Forbes Writers Narrative Strategy
06

Pipeline Attribution Tracking

Real-time pitch tracking dashboard. Private Slack channel with your team. And the only PR partner that connects media coverage to deal velocity in your Salesforce — so your CFO can finally understand PR's ROI.

Salesforce Real-Time Dashboard Private Slack
How It Works

From Strategy to
Placement in 30 Days

A structured, accountable engagement with clear milestones — not a retainer where months disappear without results.

01

Discovery & ICP Positioning

We audit your current narrative, competitive positioning, and ideal buyer journey. Then we build the editorial angles that will resonate across every tier of media coverage.

02

Editorial Strategy & Pitch Development

Former tier-1 journalists craft pitches that editors at Forbes, Inc, and VentureBeat actually want to act on. Every angle is mapped to your funnel stage and buyer intent signals.

03

Guaranteed Media Placements

Simultaneous outreach across tier-1, trade, and podcast surfaces. First placement guaranteed within 30 days. You watch the process unfold in real-time on your private dashboard.

04

Optimization & Compounding Authority

Monthly reporting that connects placements to deal velocity. As coverage accumulates, your AI citation footprint grows — creating the authority stack that wins markets over six months.

Your Series B deserves Forbes coverage.

Less than the cost of one SDR. More impact than your entire demand gen budget.

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Who We Work With

Built for Companies
in the Growth Phase

The critical window when media authority directly impacts fundraising, talent acquisition, deal velocity, and category leadership.

Tier 1 — Ideal Fit

Series A/B Scaleups

Companies experiencing rapid growth that demands market positioning. Need credibility for the next funding round and are hiring aggressively — employer brand matters as much as customer brand.

100–500 employees $15M–$75M ARR 50%+ YoY growth rate Recent funding, launch, or hire
Tier 1 — Ideal Fit

Founders Building Category Leaders

Technical or sales-background founders who understand that Forbes coverage closes enterprise deals faster than any sales hire — and that the fundraising window has a defined expiration date.

FinTech, SaaS, HealthTech HR Tech, Cybersecurity Results-oriented, data-driven Competitive urgency mindset
Tier 2 — Strong Fit

Series C/D Market Leaders

Companies preparing for IPO, strategic acquisition, or market consolidation. Need to break through against established category leaders and build credibility for public markets or M&A positioning.

500–1,000 employees $75M–$200M ARR Pre-IPO or M&A readiness Competing vs. established leaders
Tier 2 — Strong Fit

CMOs Proving PR ROI

Marketing leaders new to their role (0-18 months) who need to demonstrate pipeline contribution and brand authority — and can't afford another PR agency that delivers clip counts instead of revenue impact.

CFO-defensible investment Salesforce-attributed results Pipeline acceleration focus Category creation mandate
Tier 3 — Selective

Seed-Stage Category Builders

Pre-seed or seed companies in hot categories — AI/ML, climate tech — backed by tier-1 VCs who understand that establishing category leadership early is far cheaper than fighting for it later.

100–200 employees $5M–$15M ARR AI/ML, Climate Tech verticals Tier-1 VC backing
Tier 3 — Selective

Communications Leaders Seeking a Partner

Directors of Communications and PR who've been pitching tier-1 outlets without success — and want a partner with actual editorial relationships and journalist credibility, not a black-box agency.

Former journalist relationships Editorial quality guarantee Transparent process partner No vanity metrics
Founder & CMO Voices

What Category Leaders
Say About the Results

Forbes + Inc
Our Series B closed at a significantly higher valuation than projected. Three investors cited our Forbes coverage as why they took the meeting in the first place. EstablishCred changed our fundraising narrative entirely.
MR
Marcus R. Co-Founder & CEO, FinTech Scaleup · Series B
VentureBeat + Trade
I've worked with three PR agencies. Every single one promised media and delivered clip reports. EstablishCred is the first that connected coverage directly to pipeline in our Salesforce. Our CAC dropped 31% in month four.
SL
Sarah L. CMO, HR Tech Platform · Series A
Podcasts + AI Citations
Enterprise buyers tell our reps "I've heard of you everywhere." One enterprise deal mentioned seeing us on a podcast, then a Forbes article, then ChatGPT recommended us. That's the compounding effect EstablishCred engineered for us.
JK
James K. VP Marketing, Cybersecurity SaaS · Series B
Case Studies

Results Across
Every Stage

From pre-seed to Series C, the outcomes speak for themselves — and they're always measured against revenue, not impressions.

Pre-Seed · AI / SaaS

Lerna.ai

Needed to establish category leadership before a competitive Series A raise. No prior media presence. 90 days to build authority from zero.

30 daysto first Forbes feature
3xinvestor meeting conversion
Series Aclosed 40% above target
ChatGPTcited as top AI platform
Forbes TechTimes VentureBeat AI Podcasts x4
Seed · B2B SaaS

Intelligage.io

Competing against well-funded incumbents in a crowded HR tech market. Needed category narrative control before their next funding push.

45%uplift in organic traffic
12enterprise deals influenced
6tier-1 placements in 90 days
$0paid/sponsored content
Fast Company Inc Magazine HR Tech Outlook Perplexity cited
Series A · Deep Tech / VR

CeekVR.com

Breaking into mainstream tech media from a niche VR vertical — needed the tier-1 credibility to attract strategic partners and enterprise customers simultaneously.

Forbes+ Bloomberg in 90 days
3strategic partnerships closed
2xenterprise pipeline growth
180%increase in inbound leads
Forbes Bloomberg TechCrunch VR/AR Podcasts
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Ready to Engineer
Your Market Authority?

We work with a limited number of companies per quarter to guarantee results. If you're in the growth phase where media authority directly impacts your outcomes — let's talk.

  • First tier-1 placement guaranteed within 30 days
  • Transparent process — real-time dashboard + private Slack
  • Written by former Forbes, Inc & VentureBeat journalists
  • Pipeline attribution tracked in your Salesforce instance
  • Engineered to surface in ChatGPT and Perplexity buyer searches
  • No long-term retainer lock-ins without proven results
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