Brave climate brands matter more.
Matter more.
Grow further, faster.
We help brave brands grow by mattering more to the investors, users, and audiences they need to reach.
Matter more with clear competitive positioning, audience-ready messaging, and a plan for brand-fuelled growth.
How we do it
Better brand growth is enabled in three phases.
Chart your Ecosystem
Learn from your audience, assess your competition, and uncover your venture’s capabilities and ambitions.
Craft your Proposition
Establish clear and robust positioning that is built for your audience, leverages competitive opportunities, and reflects your vision.
Integrate your Positioning
Create the messages, inform and execute the growth plans, and start mattering more to grow, better.
Trusted by
Just a few of the brands we’ve helped.
What we do
Services that create conditions for brand growth.
Research
& Immersion
- Audience and target market
- Competition and category
- Internal audits and discovery
Strategy
& Planning
- Brand positioning and narrative
- Key messaging and tone
- Fundraising, activation and GTM
Advising
& Execution
- Fractional CMO
- Ongoing advising
- Product & Ops leadership
Who we are
Ballentine is led by Mitchell Ballentine. Mitch is a brand growth expert who has helped hundreds of ventures, founders, investors, and enterprises create the conditions for growth since founding the company in 2012.
His methodical approach to brand growth has helped clients achieve oversubscribed funding rounds, smash sales records, and nab coveted awards.
He’s always up for a chat.
Working with us
Mitch helped my team untangle and move forward some big, hairy, audacious goals. Mitch is someone that I enjoyed and trusted collaborating with. He lives up to his word with quick and thoughtful input.
Marc Kimmel
/
SamsungNext
The clarity of positioning and strength of messaging developed by Ballentine enabled a level of cohesion across our brand and our team which in turn helped us to exceed our investor fundraising goals.
Guy Halford-Thompson
/
MineHub
Our brand positioning, new name, messaging hierarchy and a refreshed visual identity really resonate with our target audience, provide clear guidelines for our product and marketing teams, and do an excellent job of differentiating us in the marketplace.
Katie Kernahan
/
addy
Carbon negative fuels for industry
For Synergetic -a venture developing carbon negative gasoline, diesel and aviation fuels- we engaged future investors, mapped the competitive ecosystem, and harnessed an ambitious vision and complex offering into a strategic positioning and cut-through messaging, helping achieve a successful seed round and set the conditions for rapid future growth.
Enabling mining sustainability
With MineHub -a developer of enterprise-grade supply chain software- we developed a strategic market positioning and aligned messaging framework that helped achieve successful funding rounds, strategic partnerships, and customer acquisition in their early stages.
Get in Touch
Time to grow?
Not sure what time it is?
Either way, we’d love to chat.
Hit the form, info [@] ballentinemedia.com, or reach out on LinkedIn.