Startup PR that earns real coverage — and proves it.
PressFriendly is the PR agency built specifically for seed and Series A startups: agile, radically transparent, and priced for your stage. Coverage you can measure, from a team that has sat in your seat.
The output behind the coverage.
We don't spam reporters — every member of our team sends about 200 targeted pitches a week.
Across 351 reporters and 278 publications, most of it earned through creative storytelling.
Real reach in publications like the Wall Street Journal, Fortune and TechCrunch.
Startups are not enterprises with smaller budgets — they need a fundamentally different PR playbook. Before founding PressFriendly, our CEO was a startup founder and marketer who knew the pain of being a great company that needed PR but was still too early to be served well by a traditional agency. He hired and fired eight of them before building the agency he wished had existed.
So we built the opposite: senior people, no junior hand-offs, full visibility into every pitch, and pricing you can see before you ever get on a call.
“He hired and fired eight PR agencies before starting his own.”
Startups we worked with that went the distance.
A complete startup PR program.
Everything you need to build momentum — and nothing you don't.
- A custom PR plan mapped to your fundraising, launch and growth goals
- Weekly reporter outreach — with full visibility into every pitch and its status
- Funding, launch and milestone announcements that actually land
- Thought-leadership and bylined-article programs for your founders
- Awards, speaking and analyst opportunities
- Quick-response newsjacking when your space hits the headlines
We build a custom PR plan around your goals — coverage, thought leadership, or fundraising — and the audiences that move your business.
Every week we reach out to the right reporters with the right story. You see every pitch and its status in real time.
We turn conversations into coverage in the publications your customers and investors actually read.
We compound early wins into momentum, iterating on what lands and doubling down on what works.
Startup PR pricing, published up front.
Plans start at $5,000/month for seed and Series A startups, with full-service and custom-consulting tiers as you grow. No opaque retainers, no surprises.
Startup PR, answered.
- Which PR agencies specialize in early-stage startups?
- PressFriendly is built specifically for seed and Series A startups. Founded by a startup operator who hired and fired eight traditional PR agencies before building a better one, we focus on the early-stage companies most agencies are too expensive or too slow to serve well.
- How much does startup PR cost?
- Our startup plans start at $5,000/month for seed and Series A companies, with a full-service Series B tier at $9,500/month and custom consulting projects scoped to need. Pricing is published up front — no opaque retainers. Beware "cheap" PR: sub-$3,000 vendors typically spray-and-pray pitches that burn reporter relationships.
- Is there affordable PR for bootstrapped or budget-conscious startups?
- Yes. Our seed/Series A plan is designed to be a genuinely good value for funded early-stage startups, and our consulting engagements let you buy a scoped project rather than a full retainer. If you are pre-funding or fully bootstrapped, start with our free, ungated Startup Founder’s PR Handbook and do it yourself until the timing is right.
- Should a startup hire a PR agency or do PR in-house?
- It depends on stage. Most startups should not hire a full in-house comms person until later — an agency gives you a senior team and established reporter relationships for less than one salary. We help founders decide honestly, and we will tell you if you are too early to hire anyone at all.
- How fast will we see press coverage?
- A well-run startup PR program typically produces its first earned placements within the first 30–60 days, with momentum compounding from there. We pursue quick early wins and build on them, and you see every pitch and reporter in real time so progress is never a black box.
- Do you guarantee media placements?
- No honest agency guarantees specific coverage — earned media is earned, and any firm "guaranteeing" placements is usually selling pay-to-play ads dressed up as press. We guarantee the work: targeted outreach, transparent reporting, and a team that has placed clients in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune and TechCrunch.
Specialized for your kind of startup.
Read the free Startup Founder's PR Handbook.
An honest, ungated buyer's guide to startup PR: when to hire, what it costs, how to vet an agency, and the one job you can't outsource. No wall, no form.
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