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The Agency That Got Bigger by Saying No
Fox Agency spent its first decade learning the agency trade. Then it chose a narrower game - global B2B technology - and discovered that saying no could travel surprisingly far.
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.
Offleash PR and the art of being understood
A database startup needs a place in the conversation. A public company needs a new audience. Offleash’s business is helping complicated technology make sense to the people who matter - and, increasingly, to AI search.
Springboard Found the Women Venture Capital Said It Couldn’t See
For 26 years, the nonprofit accelerator has matched women-led companies with investors, operators and the occasional blunt truth. Its wager is simple: the missing ingredient was never ambition. It was access.
AVI-SPL UK & Ireland: The business behind the ‘Join’ button
A meeting room is easy to photograph and harder to keep working. AVI-SPL UK & Ireland builds the technology, trains the people and stays on call - a business that now stretches from an Edinburgh innovation lab to a coordinated European operation.
Quantinuum’s $1.68 Billion Bet: Make Quantum Computing Boring Enough to Buy
Quantinuum has 98 trapped ions, an enterprise software stack and fresh public-market money. Its harder experiment is proving that exceptional fidelity can become an ordinary purchase order.
TELUS Spent Billions Escaping the Phone Company Trap - Now It Wants to Be Canada's AI Utility
The Canadian telecom turned a $7-billion fibre build into a launchpad for health, software and sovereign AI. The bet is clever, capital-heavy and newly tested by the one thing every phone company fears: customers losing patience.
Sierra Ventures Has Been Early for Forty Years. The Secret Is a Room Full of CXOs.
Since 1982, the San Mateo firm has quietly written first checks into enterprise software - from Intuit to quantum computing - while a standing network of Fortune 1000 executives does the vetting.
The Firm That Bets on Things That Didn't Exist Yesterday
Bobby Yazdani built and sold a software company, then ranked as the world's top angel investor. With Cota Capital he turned that instinct into a firm that follows one idea through every stage of its life - seed check to public stock.
SilverXis Sells the Missing Middle of Digital Transformation
The Irving company bundles software builders, flexible tech talent, and demand generation under one roof - a practical offer for businesses whose transformation plans keep getting stuck between strategy and execution.
The 6,350-Person Agency That Wants to Make the Billable Hour Obsolete
Monks was assembled to replace the agency holding company's maze of handoffs with one digital-first operating system. Now it is testing a harder proposition: whether AI workflows, accountable media and recurring subscriptions can change what clients actually pay an agency for.
Gartner
For 47 years, Gartner has sold executives something rarer than information: a defensible way to choose. Now the firm behind the Magic Quadrant is turning its own research library into an AI product - while protecting the human network that makes the library valuable.
BayOne Solutions
BayOne built a sizable business by selling two things enterprises usually buy separately: the technology work and the people who make it run. Now its bet on AI, managed delivery and diverse talent is turning a staffing heritage into a broader transformation play.
Alium
Alium is a New York-based startup building an AI-powered vendor intelligence platform for enterprise software buyers. It runs structured, compensated 1-on-1 interviews with practitioners - the VPs of marketing, CISOs, and IT directors who actually use the tools - then uses AI to synthesize those conversations into ratings and insights. Founded in 2020 by former CB Insights operators Jonathan Sherry and Alexandre Testu, Alium emerged from stealth in January 2025 with $7M in seed funding, aiming to replace pay-for-play review sites and analyst reports with unbiased peer intelligence, starting with marketing and ecommerce technology.