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The PR Firm That Learned to Speak Machine Before the Machines Could Listen
Calysto spent 27 years making obscure technologies legible to the people who decide what matters. Now that AI is changing how buyers discover companies, its old obsession with credible third-party attention looks oddly futuristic.
Rainier Communications Makes the Complicated Sound Inevitable
For three decades, a small Massachusetts agency has made a business of translating inventions before the market knows what to call them. Its trick is less about publicity than choosing the one idea everyone else will repeat.
The PR Firm That Reads the Sales Deck First
Convey Communications built a boutique agency around an unfashionable idea: before you pitch the story, learn how the client actually sells. The result is PR that wanders far beyond the press release - into product, pipeline and the buying committee.
Broadpath Sells the One Thing Technology Cannot Explain by Itself
A small Philadelphia-area communications firm has spent years solving a peculiarly modern problem: a good technology can be real, useful and almost impossible to notice. Its answer is not louder publicity. It is sharper relevance.
The $3,000 Website That Learned to Drive Exits
Treble began with a bootstrapped website and a bet on Austin. Thirteen years later, it has turned the awkward moments around funding rounds, category shifts and acquisitions into a repeatable PR business.
The Quiet Machine Behind Technology's Loudest Moments
For 35 years, a compact Campbell agency has translated technical complexity into reviews, launches, headlines and trust. Its real product is not publicity. It is a reason for the market to care.
The PR Firm That Began Before the iPhone Is Now Teaching AI to Mind Its Manners
Global Results Communications found its niche in mobile before smartphones became ordinary. Twenty years later, its sharpest product may be a habit: translating difficult technology into a story a busy human would actually open.
The PR Firm That Learned When to Stop Being Polite
Bospar built a national agency without an office, made persistence into a trademark, and then discovered that its sharpest work sometimes begins with a retreat. Now it is teaching companies to pitch not only reporters, but the machines reading them.
Before a Buyer Calls, TECHMarket Wants the Market to Have Vouched for You
For three decades, the San Mateo firm has sold a deceptively simple advantage to technical companies: arrive in the room with somebody else’s credibility already attached.
Force4 Makes the Machines Make Sense
The Santa Cruz agency has spent decades translating dense B2B technology into stories that travel - from a phone buying a Coke to cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure and the new contest for AI-generated answers.
Bhava Found a Better Way to Launch Tech: Prove the Problem First
A small San Francisco agency has spent 15 years translating difficult technology into stories people can repeat. Its neatest trick is simple: before announcing the answer, prove the problem is real.
The Agency That Turns an Hour of Tech Talk Into Three Minutes People Remember
Connect Marketing built a business around a useful constraint: if a technical company needs an hour to explain itself, the story is not finished yet. Its best work begins where jargon stops working.
Speakeasy Strategies makes the invisible worth watching
The agency behind communications for CNCF, Red Hat and Workday also makes documentaries about software. Its most useful idea: find the people inside the technical story.
Blanc & Otus knows your technology needs a better sentence
The San Francisco communications agency built its name explaining complicated technology. Its history offers a useful lesson: before you make more noise, work out what people need to understand.
JPR Communications makes the server room worth talking about
Storage arrays rarely sell themselves. JPR Communications has built a specialist PR business around explaining why the technology behind the scenes deserves a place in the buying conversation.
OrbitalSling gets the CEO out of the website
A B2B agency’s most revealing work happens behind the campaign: giving marketers the keys, untangling technical stories, and getting a launch out the door.
Engage PR makes the internet’s plumbing worth talking about
Fiber routes, optical networks, data centers: Engage PR works where the technology is complicated and the audience is exacting. Its second act began just as the world stopped meeting in person.
Karbo Communications knows what makes a company worth talking about
A social listening dataset, a Hollywood rendering job, a robot leaving stealth. Karbo turns the things technology companies do into stories other people have a reason to tell.
10Fold Communications and the question after the applause
Getting a technology company into the news is one job. Explaining what the attention accomplished is another. 10Fold has built its pitch around doing both.
Clarity Communications and the art of making technology matter
An AI sales assistant, a cyberattack investigation and a school music tour have something in common: Clarity Communications appears in their publicity. Its work offers a useful study in giving complicated ideas a human reason to exist.
Nidhi Alexander Still Thinks Like a Reporter. Now the Story Has a Revenue Target.
She began by chasing television stories and asking the question behind the question. At Hexaware, Nidhi Alexander applies the same instinct to a harder brief: make enterprise marketing earn belief, trust and measurable business.
Daniella Vallurupalli
Daniella Vallurupalli is the Vice President and Head of Global Communications at Cloudflare, the internet infrastructure and security company. She joined Cloudflare in 2014 when it had fewer than 80 employees and built its communications organization from the ground up. Today she oversees all internal and external communications across public relations, corporate and employee comms, analyst relations, social media, and visual storytelling for one of the most recognized brands in cloud networking and cybersecurity.
Stacy D'Amico
Stacy D'Amico is an Operating Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she leads a16z Apex - the firm's CEO partnership platform connecting Fortune 1000 leaders with a16z's growth-stage portfolio - and the Growth Advisory Platform helping portfolio companies scale market impact. A Silicon Valley native with 10 years at Gartner under her belt, she brings a rare blend of enterprise go-to-market expertise and institutional venture know-how to the operators and founders she serves.