HermesPR

What HermesPR does

HermesPR is a privately-held, New York-based boutique communications agency founded in 2017, specializing in public relations and brand storytelling for healthcare and technology companies. The firm positions itself as serving "ambitious" innovation brands in verticals spanning care delivery, affordability, accessibility, AI, sustainable energy, and design thinking, with a stated emphasis on narrative development, media engagement, and thought leadership. The agency is led by Principal Nate Hermes and operates with a distributed 12-person team across New York (headquarters at 776A 6th Avenue), Eugene, OR, and Nashville, TN.

HermesPR delivers its offering through five core integrated services: Skilled Storytelling (narrative development), Sustainable Social Proof (relational network building across customers, partners, communities, policy makers, and investors), Disciplined Media Engagement (journalist relationship management), Intentional Thought Leadership (op-eds, speeches, and commentary), and Handcrafted Strategy (customized communications planning). The underlying "technology" is human-delivered professional services craft rather than a software platform; there is no app, API, SDK, or proprietary model in evidence. The firm's value proposition emphasizes radical honesty, mastery of craft, depth of inquiry, emotional storytelling, humility, and adaptability, positioning the boutique against larger holding-company PR firms.

The business operates on a professional services model with quote-based, non-publicly-disclosed pricing typical of boutique PR retainers. Go-to-market is direct enterprise sales through personalized engagement rather than a scaled marketing engine, supported by a small organic presence on LinkedIn, Instagram, and a content blog launched in January 2025. The named customer base spans 25+ enterprise logos split between healthcare (e.g., Oxford Science Enterprises, Capital Rx, Point32Health, Talkiatry, Cityblock, Tomorrow Health) and technology (e.g., theTradeDesk, Nativo, AfterShip, Apollo.io, Truework), indicating a stage-agnostic shop serving both established and growth-stage brands. No funding rounds, acquisitions, partnerships, or parent-company relationships are disclosed.

Name

HermesPR

Legal name

HermesPR

Website

https://hermespr.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

HermesPR is a New York-based boutique PR and communications agency serving ambitious healthcare and technology innovation brands with storytelling, media engagement, thought leadership, and strategic communications services delivered by a distributed 12-person team.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Relations Services

NAICS

Public Relations Agencies (54182), Advertising Agencies (54181)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311), Services-Advertising (7310)

akta.pro primary industry

Brand Architecture & Portfolio Strategy (BPAFAEAE)

Keywords

• Healthcare communications
• Technology public relations
• Media engagement
• Thought leadership
• Brand storytelling

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. PR Communications Services: Professional PR services for healthcare and technology brands including strategy development, storytelling, media engagement, and thought leadership content creation

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

HermesPR is a boutique communications agency that develops brand stories, designs communications strategies, and generates media attention for innovative healthcare and technology companies. Its service portfolio spans narrative development, journalist engagement, thought leadership content production, social proof building, and customized PR strategy delivered as professional services engagements.

Product overview

HermesPR is a healthcare and technology communications agency offering a unified service portfolio centered on PR and brand storytelling. The agency provides five core integrated services: Skilled Storytelling (creative narrative development), Sustainable Social Proof (building relational networks for brand advocacy), Disciplined Media Engagement (journalist relationship management), Intentional Thought Leadership (opinion leadership development), and Handcrafted Strategy (customized communications planning). These services are offered as a cohesive communications offering for ambitious healthcare and technology brands seeking to develop their stories, design communications strategies, and generate targeted attention.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Skilled Storytelling
• Sustainable Social Proof
• Disciplined Media Engagement
• Intentional Thought Leadership
• Handcrafted Strategy

Named customers29 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Hotwire PR: Global tech and B2B communications consultancy with a strong healthcare-tech crossover, directly comparable in targeting ambitious technology and innovation brands.
• Inkhouse: Boutique PR agency focused on technology and innovation clients, directly comparable in its emphasis on storytelling, thought leadership, and high-growth brand positioning.
• FGS Global (formerly Finsbury Glover Hering): Strategic communications firm with deep healthcare and technology practices; comparable in serving healthcare innovators and technology companies with senior-led narrative and reputation work.
• PAN Communications: Mid-sized B2B tech and healthcare PR agency that serves technology and healthcare innovators with integrated communications, directly comparable in service mix and target verticals to HermesPR.
• 5W Public Relations: Boutique-style PR agency with strong tech, healthcare, and consumer practices; comparable in client mix and senior-led delivery model to HermesPR though larger in headcount.
• Walker Sands: B2B marketing and PR firm with a technology focus that serves growth-stage and mid-market innovators, similar in client profile and integrated PR-plus-content services to HermesPR.
• Real Chemistry (formerly W2O Group): Large specialist communications and data firm focused on healthcare and life sciences, directly comparable in vertical specialization to HermesPR but operating at much greater scale with proprietary analytics.
• Matter Communications: Mid-sized PR and integrated marketing firm with a strong technology and healthcare portfolio, offering comparable integrated storytelling and media engagement services to mid-market innovators.

Broad incumbents

• Edelman: World's largest PR firm with significant healthcare, technology, and innovation practices; broader and far larger than HermesPR, but competes for the same enterprise healthcare and tech clients.
• Weber Shandwick: Global communications network with a major healthcare and technology offering; competes with HermesPR for the same category of ambitious enterprise clients at a much larger scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/hermespr
• Instagraminstagram.com/hermes_pr
• Xx.com/natehermes

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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