Archetype

SF, California, United States

Tech storytelling spanning media relations, brand strategy, and DEI-focused communications

Archetype builds its work around a 40-plus year heritage in tech storytelling, operating at the intersection of culture, media, and technological change. The agency works with brands and organizations shaping everyday experiences, using media relations and crisis communications to help those clients get noticed in crowded tech news cycles.

Services run across strategic comms, content and creative, digital marketing, insights and analytics, brand strategy, DEI comms, and product development. Copywriting, video scripts and storyboards, and social strategy sit alongside influencer and creator collaborations and thought leadership PR, giving clients material for both earned media and owned channels. Insights and analytics work draws on human input alongside newer tools to track how a brand, its competitors, and its industry are perceived.

DEI Comms is a distinct line of work at Archetype, built to make sure BIPOC founders, executives, and venture capitalists get recognition for their achievements. The agency's Archetype Ascend program won Gold at The Drum Awards in February 2025, and Archetype was named one of PRWeek's Best Places to Work the same year, in January 2025.

40
YEARS IN BUSINESS
1
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Founded
1986 (40 years)

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6 / 25

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