Fintech startups
From seed to Series B
Pre-launch noise, funding announcements, and the credibility that gets you into investor inboxes.
Neza: PR for fintech, startup & tech founders
Fintech · Seed to Series BFounder-led narrativesUHNW & private wealthLondon, working globally
PR that makes founders impossible to ignore.
From seed-stage fintechs to family offices, Neza turns funding rounds, launches and founder stories into coverage that builds credibility, opens investor doors and wins customers.
As featured in
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Who we help
Built for the companies rewriting how money moves.
Four kinds of client, one standard of work: sharp positioning, real relationships, coverage that means something.
Founder-led businesses
Building personal brand and authority
We turn your expertise into a voice journalists call first, not a LinkedIn echo chamber.
Scaling companies
Needing consistent media presence
A steady drumbeat of coverage that compounds, instead of one-off spikes nobody remembers.
UHNW individuals & family offices
Private wealth, private funds and philanthropy
The wealth story is often the one that needs the most careful telling. We work under NDA, stay off press lists, and handle every approach like a co-founder would.
What we do
Seven ways we get you into the conversation.
No retainers padded with busywork. Every engagement is built around the coverage that moves your business forward.
Founder Profiling
Turn the founder into the story.
We build the founder's public identity from the ground up: positioning sessions, profile interviews and a steady drumbeat of podcast, conference and tier-one profile placements. The goal is simple: when journalists need a voice on your sector, yours is the name they call.
- Personal positioning & message architecture
- Tier-one founder profiles and interviews
- Podcast and keynote placement pipeline
- LinkedIn ghostwriting and content cadence
Funding Announcements
Seed to Series C, timed for maximum impact.
A raise is a news cycle, and it passes fast. We secure an exclusive with the outlet your investors and talent actually read, then layer follow-on coverage across trade, business and regional press so the story runs for weeks, not hours.
- Exclusive negotiation with tier-one outlets
- Press release, embargo plan and media kit
- Founder and investor interview coordination
- Trade, regional and syndicated follow-up coverage
Thought Leadership
Own the conversation in your category.
Op-eds, bylines and data-led reports that position you on regulation, payments, AI and digital assets. We turn what you already know into content editors want to run, and place it where policymakers, buyers and investors will see it.
- Bylined op-eds in business and trade press
- Original data reports and surveys
- Speaking programme and conference strategy
- Regulatory and industry commentary placement
Crisis & Reputation
Ready before you need it.
Regulatory scrutiny, outages, security incidents, hostile coverage. We draft the holding statements before anything happens, run a 24/7 response desk when it does, and rebuild the narrative afterwards, quietly and without amplifying the story.
- Crisis playbook and pre-drafted statements
- 24/7 response desk during incidents
- Journalist inquiry management and response
- Post-crisis narrative rebuild and monitoring
Investor Narrative
One story for press, decks and LPs.
Press coverage and fundraising talks reinforce each other, or contradict each other. We align the narrative across media, pitch decks and LP communications so every audience hears the same compelling version of what you're building.
- Narrative audit across press and materials
- Core narrative document and proof points
- LP and investor communications support
- Analyst and ecosystem briefing programme
Market Entry
Launch local, sound native.
Expanding into the EU, USA, Russia or the Middle East means different journalists, different languages and different cultural cues. Our local teams place the launch story with the outlets that matter in each market, and brief you on what not to say.
- Market media landscape and entry briefing
- Localised launch campaign and press outreach
- In-market spokesperson and interview training
- Ongoing local relationship management
UHNW & Private Wealth
Discreet coverage for very private people.
Ultra-high-net-worth individuals, family offices and private funds need coverage that never reads as a pitch. We work quietly: background-checked briefings, no press lists, nothing published without your sign-off, and a strict line between what is on and off the record.
- Reputation and search-footprint audit
- Private profile placement in business and titles press
- Philanthropy, succession and family office storytelling
- Discreet photographer and interview handling
How we work
Three steps from overlooked to unmissable.
Simple by design. Most clients are in front of journalists within three weeks of starting.
01 · Week one
Discover your story
A founder session with no fluff. We dig into the numbers, the market, and the messy parts, and then find the angle only you can tell.
02 · Week two
Build the narrative
Messaging, proof points and press-ready assets. Every pitch is written for the specific journalist you want to win.
03 · Ongoing
Get you in the press
We pitch, brief and follow up. You show up to interviews prepared; we handle everything around them.
Why Neza
A PR partner that behaves like a co-founder.
“Built for founders who want results, not reports.”
Founder-first, not agency-first
You work directly with the person pitching your story. No account layers, no hand-offs, no lost nuance.
Fintech fluency
We speak your language: regulation, rails, unit economics. Journalists get a briefing, not a glossary.
Fast, focused, no bloated retainers
Senior time, scoped to what actually moves coverage. You see exactly what we did and why it worked.
Results
Coverage that moves the needle
Real outcomes for founders who were once invisible to Western press and investors.
ForbesFinTech
"A payments founder landed a full profile feature, driving 3 inbound term sheets within a month."
+$4.2M raised
TechCrunchAI / SaaS
"Launch coverage for an AI startup expanding to the US: 18k signups in the first week post-feature."
18k signups
EntrepreneurE-commerce
"Founder positioned as a category authority through a bylined column series and award nomination."
Top 100 list
Social proof
Trusted by ambitious founders
Neza took a complicated raise and made it sound like the obvious story of the quarter. We had three tier-one conversations before the announcement even went live.
The difference is the prep. Every interview brief was sharper than anything our previous agency produced in a year, and it showed in the coverage.
We stopped chasing one-off press hits and started building a narrative. Six months in, journalists come to us for comment.
Client names have been redacted due to NDA agreements.
Next step
Ready to get your story told?
15 minutes, a straight answer on whether you’re ready for press, and what we’d do first if you are.
Book a free intro callContact
Tell us what you’re building.
Send a note and we’ll come back within one working day with an honest view on your story.
- 15 minutes, no pitch deck required
- An honest read on your story and its news value
- A short follow-up with what we’d do first
London, UK · Working with founders worldwide