Communications and PR that drives results

Paul has a strong understanding of the media landscape and a practical, disciplined approach to shaping engagement. He is skilled at translating complex topics into clear, accessible narratives for a range of audiences and aligning messages with current context. I highly value the way we have worked together on short turnarounds and with senior stakeholders.

Paul leads InsurTechNZ, building its reputation among insurance and insurtech leaders within New Zealand and internationally. InsurTechNZ is one of the leading tech communities in the NZTech Group, a national not-for-profit formed to help connect, promote and advance the entire tech ecosystem.

Paul has been of great help with guiding our PR strategy at Quashed. Starting initially with a capital raise announcement, Paul has continued to support us with building our public profile and credibility with his expertise and strong network. Paul is well versed with tech startups and understands the ecosystem which we have found to be very helpful.

Pursuit was the agency of record for the Meta family of apps in New Zealand for nine years until 2023. Their team consistently provided insightful media relations advice and on the ground support to our regional team during a period of dramatic growth and change in our business.

Pursuit has provided a range of communications services to grow and protect JAVLN’s reputation, while flexing with our needs as a scale up. They understand our business and the wider insurtech space in New Zealand and Australia.

Agency partners are key to telling Deel’s story globally. In New Zealand, Pursuit has our back, engaging with media and industry partners on our behalf, providing local intel, and providing on the ground support for my regional colleagues. Dedicated, super experienced and just a great team, I would recommend them to any brand looking for representation across New Zealand.

Pursuit understands the PR and business issues facing early stage companies, and adjust their model to suit. They bring strategic ideas and first rate communication skills to the table that add value to our fast growing business.

As a fast growing tech company we don’t pretend to be experts in market research and comms. Having Pursuit PR lead that work for us has been outstanding, knowing we are in safe and experienced hands as we push out into global markets, freeing us up focus on our core business and what we do best as a team.

Pursuit really understand the start up and innovation ecosystem, who the players are and the drivers of the digital economy. As business owners and investors themselves, they can relate to our start up and owner-manager community.

Pursuit’s team really understand B2B communications and what it takes to represent a local or global brand to commercial customers, while managing internal stakeholders.

I enjoyed working with Pursuit and Fitbit to create behavior-changing activations and influencer campaigns to motivate Kiwis to be more active. Pursuit were instrumental in bringing our organisations together, strategically managing the relationship for mutual benefit year on year.

The team at Pursuit show a good understanding of the challenges faced by early stage technology companies taking on new markets. They’ve provided invaluable advice and input into a range of activities including investor relations, strategic planning, and production of marketing collateral.

The Pursuit team’s knowledge of the local digital market and understanding of the evolving nature of PR in the YouTube and social media generation was incredibly valuable. This knowledge coupled with his strategic insight helped Xbox NZ successfully launch many complex campaigns.

As my New Zealand communications partner, I relied heavily on Pursuit for insights and advice. They understand disruptive technologies and can work at pace, supporting a globally dispersed client team in a dynamic, issues-rich environment.

Pursuit understands SaaS and is a trusted partner providing media and B2B comms advice for Re-Leased across NZ and Australia. Their team is well connected with local media and we have been very pleased with the outcomes of the projects we have worked on together.