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Top 25 Branding agencies for startups based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 23,574 branding agencies for startups headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 112,435 professional contacts across them, including 28,485 with verified work emails and 39,068 with mobile numbers. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers branding agencies for startups headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest branding agencies for startups based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,259 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MINE™ is a San Francisco-based design and brand communication firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,064 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a premier creative graphic design and marketing design service located in the US, our sole mission revolves around enhancing your brands visual appeal.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,255 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TBC is an independently owned, full-service branding, advertising and strategic communications agency with headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,207 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We build enduring brands that move people and markets through the radical creativity of Truth Well Told™.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 872 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a full-service communications agency behind some of the world’s most revered and iconic brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 782 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Formerly Essence, we are now EssenceMediacom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 698 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Team One was founded with one philosophical focus: to construct brands of elevated aspiration and worth by attracting affluent consumers like never before.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 573 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hi, we’re Agent.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 561 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Parliament is a brand positioning agency for evolving companies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 468 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NOBODY® is a social-first agency built for complex challenges, serving leading brands, nonprofits, and the Fortune 500.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 455 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “First and foremost, BAKER is a culture of creative individuals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 414 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are CLEAN Advertising and Design, a full-service creative agency with over 28 years of experience delivering ideas that help build brand awareness, engage audiences, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 406 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “An independently owned retail ad agency full of brains, guts, heart, and great taste.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 327 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hi.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 323 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bending rules.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 315 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nail Where every brand finds its fascinating.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 288 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Brand Institute is the global leader in brand name and identity development.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HLK is an independent brand and marketing agency creating growth through movement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 274 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a full service creative agency, independently spirited, backed by the most powerful company in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 270 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bakery is the creative and culture agency designed to ignite brand obsession.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 267 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 40 years, brands have trusted LPK to help shape what comes next.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 240 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our business is branding organizations, re-branding organizations and rejuvenating the brands of organizations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 238 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Positivity + Possibility.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 238 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MONO is a design-driven advertising & branding agency that invents and reinvents brands and businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 217 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EP+Co is an agency of talented makers and doers on a mission to build belief with brands we love.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: branding agencies for startups. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names branding agencies for startups.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of branding agencies for startups, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name branding agencies for startups. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Branding agencies for startups based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Freshness & accuracy
How recently the business emails were verified and the company information checked
Email last verified
Median 29.0dCompany record updated
Median 90.0dHow this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among branding agencies for startups, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “branding agencies for startups”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names branding agencies for startups), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among branding agencies for startups, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 28,485 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Branding agencies for startups by metro
- Branding agencies for startups in New York1547
- Branding agencies for startups in Los Angeles989
- Branding agencies for startups in Chicago551
- Branding agencies for startups in Atlanta481
- Branding agencies for startups in Miami423
- Branding agencies for startups in San Francisco420
- Branding agencies for startups in Austin377
- Branding agencies for startups in Denver363
- Branding agencies for startups in Houston344
- Branding agencies for startups in Portland319
- Branding agencies for startups in Dallas315
- Branding agencies for startups in Seattle297
- Branding agencies for startups in San Diego272
- Branding agencies for startups in Minneapolis244
- Branding agencies for startups in Boston218
- Branding agencies for startups in Philadelphia203
- Branding agencies for startups in Washington196
- Branding agencies for startups in Brooklyn193
- Branding agencies for startups in Orlando191
- Branding agencies for startups in Tampa171
- Branding agencies for startups in Charlotte162
- Branding agencies for startups in Nashville161
- Branding agencies for startups in Phoenix153
- Branding agencies for startups in New York City142
- Branding agencies for startups in Columbus126
- Branding agencies for startups in Cincinnati123
- Branding agencies for startups in Raleigh118
- Branding agencies for startups in Las Vegas113
- Branding agencies for startups in Richmond112
- Branding agencies for startups in Detroit108
- Branding agencies for startups in Kansas City107
- Branding agencies for startups in Indianapolis104
- Branding agencies for startups in San Antonio99
- Branding agencies for startups in Baltimore98
- Branding agencies for startups in Salt Lake City94
- Branding agencies for startups in Scottsdale86
- Branding agencies for startups in Pittsburgh83
- Branding agencies for startups in Jacksonville82
- Branding agencies for startups in Milwaukee82
- Branding agencies for startups in Oakland81
- Branding agencies for startups in Cleveland79
- Branding agencies for startups in Fort Lauderdale76
- Branding agencies for startups in Charleston75
- Branding agencies for startups in Sacramento75
- Branding agencies for startups in Irvine74
- Branding agencies for startups in Santa Monica73
- Branding agencies for startups in Grand Rapids71
- Branding agencies for startups in Louisville69
- Branding agencies for startups in Fort Worth63
- Branding agencies for startups in Birmingham61
- Branding agencies for startups in Boulder59
- Branding agencies for startups in New Orleans59
- Branding agencies for startups in Omaha57
- Branding agencies for startups in Tulsa57
- Branding agencies for startups in Rochester56
- Branding agencies for startups in Wilmington56
- Branding agencies for startups in Columbia55
- Branding agencies for startups in Greenville55
- Branding agencies for startups in Sheridan55
- Branding agencies for startups in Madison54
- Branding agencies for startups in San Jose54
- Branding agencies for startups in Springfield54
- Branding agencies for startups in Asheville53
- Branding agencies for startups in Colorado Springs53
- Branding agencies for startups in Bend52
- Branding agencies for startups in Buffalo51
- Branding agencies for startups in Long Beach50
- Branding agencies for startups in Newport Beach45
- Branding agencies for startups in Oklahoma City45
- Branding agencies for startups in Boca Raton41
- Branding agencies for startups in Boise41
- Branding agencies for startups in Fort Collins41
- Branding agencies for startups in Miami Beach41
- Branding agencies for startups in Honolulu39
- Branding agencies for startups in Arlington38
- Branding agencies for startups in Knoxville38
- Branding agencies for startups in Sarasota36
- Branding agencies for startups in West Palm Beach36
- Branding agencies for startups in Durham35
- Branding agencies for startups in Memphis35
- Branding agencies for startups in Pasadena35
- Branding agencies for startups in Remote35
- Branding agencies for startups in Costa Mesa34
- Branding agencies for startups in Plano34
- Branding agencies for startups in Baton Rouge33
- Branding agencies for startups in Burlington33
- Branding agencies for startups in Lexington33
- Branding agencies for startups in Newark33
- Branding agencies for startups in Tucson33
- Branding agencies for startups in Santa Barbara32
- Branding agencies for startups in St Louis32
- Branding agencies for startups in Vancouver32
- Branding agencies for startups in Dayton31
- Branding agencies for startups in Gilbert31
- Branding agencies for startups in Providence31
- Branding agencies for startups in Savannah31
- Branding agencies for startups in Virginia Beach31
- Branding agencies for startups in Berkeley30
- Branding agencies for startups in Des Moines30
- Branding agencies for startups in Franklin30
- Branding agencies for startups in York30
- Branding agencies for startups in Beverly Hills29
- Branding agencies for startups in Huntsville29
- Branding agencies for startups in Lancaster29
- Branding agencies for startups in Chattanooga28
- Branding agencies for startups in Glendale28
- Branding agencies for startups in Wichita27
- Branding agencies for startups in Albany26
- Branding agencies for startups in Alpharetta26
- Branding agencies for startups in Charlottesville26
- Branding agencies for startups in Fayetteville26
- Branding agencies for startups in Marietta26
- Branding agencies for startups in Reno26
- Branding agencies for startups in Rockford26
- Branding agencies for startups in Venice26
- Branding agencies for startups in Carlsbad25
- Branding agencies for startups in Jersey City25
- Branding agencies for startups in Tempe25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names branding agencies for startups, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many branding agencies for startups are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 23,574 branding agencies for startups headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
MINE, headquartered in San Francisco, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most branding agencies for startups?
New York leads with 1547 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (989) and Chicago (551).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 28,485 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 23,574 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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