Venture Capital & Start-Ups

With reputation driving 25%+ of company valuations, we help venture capital firms and their portfolio companies build credibility, momentum, and valuation through strategic public relations.

Key Services

Fundraising Announcements

Lead proactive PR campaigns for fundraise announcements, handling messaging, press release development, media engagement, LinkedIn, and executive communications.

Product Launches and Strategic Partnership announcements

Lead proactive PR campaigns that generate market buzz, increase awareness, and position companies as innovators with customers, partners, and press.

Strategic Messaging

Define messaging that crisply describes the company and articulates the bold vision, strategy, and differentiated capabilities.

On-Call Advisory

Serve Venture Capital firms to provide counsel across the entire portfolio, including messaging, media training, crisis communication, and investor updates.

Case Study

Challenge

Rather than forcing founders to spend scarce time and resources on PR, a leading Venture Capital firm provided access to Arvo to handle announcements seamlessly and help build momentum for the company.

Our Approach

Arvo partnered with the firm to support portfolio companies for key announcements with work that included crafting strategic messaging, writing the press release, creating the fact sheet, proactively engaging with journalists, developing the LinkedIn plan, and managing end-to-end communication internal and external communication plans.

Outcome

Startups have been featured in leading publications such as TechCrunch, WSJ Venture, Axios, Fortune, and Forbes. On average,announcements achieved ~$3M in Ad Value Equivalency (AVE), with the VC firm itself seeing $17.4M AVE in one year. By combining strategy and story, we helped founders secure valuation premiums and investor confidence.

Clients love working with us

"Throughout our entire media-outreach campaign Arvo was quick, professional, knowledgeable and collegial. Many firms act as gatekeepers to media sources rather than partners to the companies they work with. Arvo bucks that trend, works hand in hand with their clients and gets results."

Start-up leader (and former WSJ Reporter)