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Chemistry PR knows what makes a place worth talking about
A wave against a restaurant window. A neighborhood ice cream festival. A new reason to visit an old hotel. Chemistry PR builds campaigns around the details people pass along.
Startup Büro makes a business of bringing Georgia together
From failure stories on stage to games built over a weekend, Startup Büro gives Georgia’s entrepreneurial community practical reasons to meet. Its longer programs give founders something to do once they get there.
Jane Matthews Markets a Memory Toronto Keeps Remaking
At the Canadian National Exhibition, Jane Matthews has the unusual job of selling something Toronto already remembers. Her work shows how a 19th-century fair stays useful by turning nostalgia into participation.
Harpoon Bet $70 Million on Its Workers. Then the Beer Market Changed.
Harpoon used a leveraged employee buyout to keep a beloved Boston brewer independent. A decade later, consolidation forced a second experiment: share the machinery, protect the local brands and make the taproom matter as much as the six-pack.
Saga Communications
Saga Communications built a public company out of local radio, then discovered its next act hiding in the same relationships. Its bet is that a familiar voice can make an advertiser wanted - and digital tools can help that advertiser get found.
Bevy
Bevy is an enterprise community engagement platform that helps large companies run events, forums, groups, and member programs from one system. Born out of Startup Grind's own struggle to coordinate hundreds of local chapters, Bevy now powers customer and developer communities for brands like Twitch, Salesforce, Adobe, Atlassian, and Notion, and has folded in the CMX professional network and AI 'agents' to help teams grow communities and prove their return on investment.
Airmeet
Airmeet is a virtual and hybrid events platform built to help B2B marketing teams run interactive webinars, summits, and conferences that generate pipeline. Founded in 2019 by former CommonFloor founders, the remote-first company pairs engagement-heavy features - virtual lounges, speed networking, and gamification - with AI-powered content repurposing and CRM-connected analytics. More than 5,500 brands, from Comcast and Unilever to the Linux Foundation, have used Airmeet to host events at scale.