101 Best Public Relations (PR) Startups in San Francisco of 2021

July 13, 2021

This article showcases our top picks for the best San Francisco based Public Relations (PR) companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Public Relations (PR) industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact
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Top San Francisco Public Relations (PR) Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Meltwater

Meltwater

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Meltwater is a media Intelligence & social listening tools for measuring, managing and magnifying corporate reputation.

Zignal Labs

Zignal Labs

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Zignal analyzes billions of digital stories in real time to help customers discover and manage the narratives that can help or harm them.

Zignal Labs

Onclusive

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Onclusive empowers communications teams with media monitoring and PR analytics software and services.

Zignal Labs

Upbeat

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Upbeat is a software-powered next-generation PR agency that focuses on media marketing for various companies.

Zignal Labs

Telesocial

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TeleSocial is an integrated voice and IP service that connects voice calls through social media.

Zignal Labs

Quarterly Global

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Quarterly Global is an established leader of targeted marketing and advertising solutions.

Zignal Labs

Campaign Writer

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Copywriting by Award-Winning Copywriters for Sales, Marketing, Direct Response, PR and Email Campaigns.

Zignal Labs

LEWIS

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LEWIS is a PR, marketing and digital agency elevating the customer experience for the world’s most beloved brands.

Zignal Labs

Business Wire

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Business Wire operates as a source for press releases, photos, multimedia, and regulatory filings.

Zignal Labs

Lift

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Lift is a virtual web design company developing second screen apps and sites.

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Pressful

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A simple way to showcase your brand, start up, or announce your news with a journalist video interview.

Zignal Labs

Poll Everywhere

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Poll Everywhere is a web, SMS, and Twitter polling service that allows users to submit votes or comments to a PowerPoint or Keynote slide.

Zignal Labs

HelloFax

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HelloFax is an online document signing and sharing service that enables users to exchange faxes, request signatures, and fill out forms.

Zignal Labs

Outcast

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Outcast is an integrated marketing agency specializing in communications, digital, and creative. We shape brands that shape the future.

Zignal Labs

Archetype

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Archetype partners with category creators and industry leaders to build brands.

Zignal Labs

Amare Group, Inc.

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A simple and easy to use personal relationship manager.

Zignal Labs

Slide

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Slide enables users to create and personalize widgets and use them on social networks, blogs and desktops.

Zignal Labs

VSC

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We are a band of strategists, storytellers and data nerds obsessed with helping Davids crush a sea of Goliaths.

Zignal Labs

SanFranSEO

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SanFranSEO is a San Francisco-based startup that provides online reputation management and SEO software and services.

Zignal Labs

DailyBooth

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DailyBooth was a photoblogging website that enabled its users to take photos of themselves.

Zignal Labs

Antenna Group

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Antenna has nearly two decades of experience in bringing technologies out of the lab into commercialization and beyond.

Zignal Labs

Sparkpr

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From startups to Fortune 1000, Spark specializes in helping innovation-minded companies transform their brands through PR & marketing.

Zignal Labs

Technorati

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Technorati builds advertising platforms for high-level publishing firms.

Zignal Labs

WCG

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WCG is a global communications company that supports clients to connect with audiences in a way that is relevant.

Zignal Labs

LaunchSquad

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LaunchSquad is an award-winning public relations and creative communications firm with offices in San Francisco, New York, Boston & Detroit.

Zignal Labs

Pac-West Telecomm

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Pac-West is a wholesale provider of traditional and cloud-based telecom infrastructure services.

Zignal Labs

Crowd PR

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The PR Agency for Crowdfunding.

Zignal Labs

PageLever

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PageLever is an analytics platform for measuring a specific brand’s presence on Facebook.

Zignal Labs

Glancee

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Glance is a mobile app that enables users to discover and connect with people around them.

Zignal Labs

KQED

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We’re your NorCal NPR and PBS stations, and this is us on Pinterest.

Zignal Labs

TriplePundit

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Triple Pundit, a Certified B-Corporation, is a new-media company for highly conscious business leaders.

Zignal Labs

Access Brand Communications

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Access helps brands effectively earn engagement with their audiences by creating surround-sound experiences that move minds and markets.

Zignal Labs

Mission North

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We believe a story can change everything when the right audience gets behind it.

Zignal Labs

SutherlandGold Group

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SutherlandGold Group is a PR agency that creates stories to motivate customers, potential acquirers, and business development partners.

Zignal Labs

Highwire PR

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Highwire PR is an online agency that provides creative content, media training, and account management services.

Zignal Labs

Slideshop.com

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Slideshop offers its users with a wide range of PowerPoint presentation templates.

Zignal Labs

Mercury Global Partners

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Mercury Global Partners is a boutique B2B and B2C PR firm specialize in PR and integrated marketing for emerging tech companies.

Zignal Labs

Bospar

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Bospar is a boutique tech public relations company.

Zignal Labs

Horn Group

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HORN is a digital communications agency that combines PR, social media, and interactive services to help companies build their brand.

Zignal Labs

QuicklyChat

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Push-to-Talk Video Chats for Co-workers

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AddLive

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AddLive is a developer friendly way to integrate live video, voice and text chat into applications.

Zignal Labs

Inner Circle Labs

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PR firm bringing passion, determination, accountability & integrity to everything they do.

Zignal Labs

btrax, Inc.

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Service design & Branding Consultancy

Zignal Labs

The Hatch Agency

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The Hatch Agency was created to work with the companies, people, and brands who are changing the way they live, work, and play.

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Modern Luxury

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Modern Luxury is a marketing company that offers services such as printing, advertising, branding, digital marketing and PR.

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Blanc & Otus

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Blanc & Otus is the industry’s most experienced tech communications agency.

Zignal Labs

DEMONSTRATE

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Demonstrate is an award-winning, independently owned, boutique full-service marketing and communications agency.

Zignal Labs

Boca

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BOCA is a public relations agency that specializes in communication, content strategies and content.

Zignal Labs

Thermal

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Digital Health PR

Zignal Labs

Emphatic

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An affordable social media team for small businesses & startups

Zignal Labs

Rsquared Communication

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Rsquared Communication is a strategic communications partner to high-growth category leaders and venture-backed startups.

Zignal Labs

Blue Marlin Partners

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Blue Marlin Partners is a PR and social media firm that drives the marketing strategy of entrepreneurial companies.

Zignal Labs

Consort Partners

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Consort Partners is a boutique PR known for building the profile of 10x Genomics, Unity, King.com (Candy Crush Saga), Udacity, TaskRabbit

Zignal Labs

Karbo Communications, Inc.

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A top ten tech communications firm that will develop a custom mix of programs designed to drive sales and market leadership.

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vFlyer

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vFlyer provides cost-effective and efficient marketing tools for small to mid-size businesses.

Zignal Labs

Multiplied

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Multiplied is a premier blockchain marketing and PR agency that specializes in digital marketing, public relations, and content. SF | NYC

Zignal Labs

TechNews

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TechNews is a platform used for promoting tech companies.

Zignal Labs

PR Hacker

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A San Francisco-based team of world-class writers, communicators, storytellers, data wranglers, and viral marketers.

Zignal Labs

Echos Brand Communications

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Echos Brand Communications offer marketing solutions such as public relations, online marketing, SEM, social media, event and grass root.

Zignal Labs

PressFriendly

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PressFriendly is a startup intent on helping other startups get press.

Zignal Labs

Pramana Collective Inc.

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Pramana Collective was founded in 2013

Zignal Labs

UPRAISE Marketing + PR Inc.

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Upraise is a marketing/public relations firm that helps companies excite and energize key audiences to gain customers, funding and talent.

Zignal Labs

Gravitate PR

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Public Relations Agency

Zignal Labs

Center for Justice & Accountability

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The Center for Justice and Accountability is an international human rights organization.

Zignal Labs

Cunningham Collective

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Cunningham Collective is a marketing, brand strategy & communications firm that helps technology companies deliver transformational results.

Zignal Labs

Access Communications

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News, updates and insights on all things #publicrelations and #socialmedia from the Access Communications team.

Zignal Labs

Atomic PR

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Atomic PR is an creative communications agency.

Zignal Labs

TriplePoint PR

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TriplePoint PR is a public relations organization focused on the interactive entertainment and technology industries.

Zignal Labs

Notifixious

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Notifixious offers Superfeeder, a multiplatform reader service that harvests any type of content stream at a near-real-time rate.

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Trier & Company

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Trier and Company is an integrated communications agency for disruptive technology companies

Zignal Labs

Glodow Nead Communications

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Glodow Nead Communications offers social media, crisis communication, events, media training, public relations & brand development services.

Zignal Labs

TalkFree

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TalkFree is a mobile app developer specializing in affordable phone communication applications, using VoIP.

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Jexy

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Jexy provides an abstraction API for productivity data for developers.

Zignal Labs

Adler & Colvin

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Adler & Colvin is a law firm offering legal advisory services.

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TellFi

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TellFi provides easy-to-use phone systems with extensions, forwarding and voicemail for small-scale businesses.

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Qewz

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Qewz is an online news site providing comparisons of stories by highlighting competing views on major news events from worldwide sources.

Zignal Labs

A23 Advisors

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A23 Advisors is an award-winning boutique consulting firm with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Park City, Dallas and Bangkok.

Zignal Labs

Easy Office Phone

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Cloud Based Hosted PBX and Call Centers

Zignal Labs

The Rowland Agency

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The Rowland Agency is a boutique public relations agency for B2B and B2D startups.

Zignal Labs

Nectar Communications

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Nectar Communications is a company which builds strategies, stories and campaigns for most innovative companies.

Zignal Labs

Mighty PR

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Mighty PR is a is a marketing and public relations offering Public Relations, Communication Strategies & Event Activations services.

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Save The Mom

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Save The Mom is an application that makes it easier for families to communicate and share information.

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Magic Sauce Media

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Magic Sauce Media is a consultancy firm that combines social media, viral marketing, communications, PR, and branding services.

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Oxygen PR

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Oxygen PR specializes in media relations and social media management that offers its users with communications solutions.

Zignal Labs

Swissnex San Francisco

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Swissnex San Francisco is a knowledge network platform that exchanges information and ideas about science, education, art, and innovation.

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Ingrid Marketing

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Award-winning public relations and marketing agency for cannabis companies.

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Sage Design Group

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Creative Solutions to Grow Your Business

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The Commonwealth Club of California

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The Commonwealth Club of California is a non-profit organization that hosts more than 450 events a year.

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Connect Card

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Connect Card is a prepaid calling card phone service that eliminates the use of PINS.

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MSR Communications

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MSR Communications is a public relations and marketing communications firm.

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SourceSouth

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Offshore and nearshore web site development, IT programming, Asterisk and Linux development outsourcing company with project management in

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Blockchain PR

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Blockchain PR help Blockchain based companies with marketing, PR, and investor relations.

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RateADrug.com

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RateADrug.com is a free online venue where users can anonymously rate and review over 5,000 prescription and over-the-counter drugs in

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Freshout

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Full Service Web Development Firm

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Redline

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Redline’s instant point-and-click tool means anyone can write notes directly on the webpage.

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theMIX agency

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theMIX agency is a communications boutique partnered with companies in the mobile, cloud, digital entertainment, and green tech industries.

Zignal Labs

DRSmedia

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Consumer Technology Marketing & PR Firm

Zignal Labs

Améredia

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Améredia enables multicultural marketing communications for global brands across U.S. and international markets.

Zignal Labs

The Bulleit Group

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The Bulleit Group apecializes in media,speaking,content,brand strategy consisting of journalists & social scientists.

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Skycastle Media

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San Francisco area PR and Brand Strategy

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Blattel Communications

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Blattel is a full-service public relations and marketing agency, provides B2B communication services to clients in business centers.

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