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"Every company is a media company. Let's build one."

Beantown Media Ventures is a Boston-based, integrated marketing communications agency, which assists high-growth companies in generating leads, building customer loyalty and creating brand awareness to grow their early-stage businesses.

As today's start-ups seek users across a commoditized technology infrastructure their branding, marketing and communications are increasingly important in distinguishing them from their competition. 

Founded by Kyle Austin, Beantown Media Ventures has communications expertise and experience advising Fortune 500 companies, global non-profits and start-ups at various stages of lifecycles. We work with entrepreneurs and their founding teams to: establish brand stories, create content marketing strategies, segment digital advertising, drive inbound leads, build company recognition, network with market influencers, position their products and implement creative campaigns - all with an eye towards accelerating growth and improving their businesses.

Our Current & Former Clients, and Their Stories Spotlighted in the Media:

Boston-based ByteLight is a provider of market-leading indoor positioning solutions using an innovative LED lighting based technology. It has raised more than $1.2M to date from investors including VantagePoint Capital Partners. Boston-based FitnessKeeper, Inc. is the company behind RunKeeper, a mobile fitness platform that leverages the location technology in smartphones to help runners and other fitness enthusiasts better track, measure, and improve their fitness. It has raised San Francisco-based Zaarly is a new way to buy and sell with people nearby. Buyers post what they want and what they're willing to pay via any mobile device or the web. Zaarly has raised more than $15M to date from investors, including Kleiner Perkins Cau New York City-based SinglePlatform is the world’s largest online provider of restaurant menus and local business storefronts. The company was acquired by Constant Contact in June of 2012 for $100M. San Francisco-based giftiki is the former social commerce platform and collaborative gifting engine. It was acquired by LaunchRock in August of 2012. San Francisco-based Flipgigs Inc. has developed a social network that connects consumers and businesses with high school and college students looking for full- or part-time work. It is currently bootstrapped by its founder and CEO Jayati Sengupta. Boston-based PowerInbox is an open app platform for email. Powerinbox’s service, which has been made available to the public today, enables users to run apps from inside their email messages. To date the company has raised more than $1.8M from investors i Cambridge-based One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is the Non-profit organization offering an inexpensive laptop designed for children in developing countries. ByteLight featured in the Economist ByteLight Selfstarter featured in Fast Company ByteLight featured in Wired ByteLight featured in the NewScientist ByteLight funding featured in BostInno ByteLight launch Q&A with founders featured in TheNextWeb ByteLight's funding leads the Wall Street Journal's daily round-up of high profile venture funding RunKeeper Partner Announcement featured in Gizmodo RunKeeper Partner Announcement featured in Pocketlint RunKeeper New Hire Announcement in the Boston Business Journal Zaarly featured in Forbes cover story on the corporate revolution driven by social power Bo Fishback of Zaarly poses for Forbes as part of cover story Zaarly featured in USA Today Zaarly profiled on Cnet Zaarly featured on CNBC. Link to Video: http://bit.ly/OWYgUJ Zaarly featured in Gizmodo SinglePlatform named one of America's most promising start-ups by BusinessWeek SinglePlatform featured in InformationWeek giftiki social media campaign around new group-funding platform giftiki feature on launch of donation platform with Sofía Vergara of Modern Family giftiki featured in Fast Company flipgigs featured in 7X7 One Laptop per Child featured in Newsweek One Laptop per Child featured in the New York Times

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