The Pandemic Made Every Company Care About Space. Density Was Ready.

Navigation

Summary

About Salient PR

Salient is a B2B tech PR agency. We help startups become the story — landing tier-one coverage, building executive visibility, and turning attention into pipeline.

Senior team. No hand-offs. Radical transparency. If you’re ready to talk, reach out.

At a Glance

  • Coverage Volume: 135 Pieces — Milestone Campaign
  • Estimated Coverage Reach: 6.1M Views
  • Social Shares: 12.1K — Social Amplification
  • Average Domain Authority: 73 Avg. DA — Quality Outlets

The Partnership

For years, Density had been building something quietly brilliant: privacy-first sensors that could tell you how people actually used physical space—without tracking individuals. It was a solution looking for a problem big enough to match it.

Then March 2020 happened. Suddenly every company on earth was asking the same questions: How many people are in the office? Is this floor safe? When can we bring people back? How do we know?

Density had the answer. They just needed the world to know it.

The Challenge

COVID created a once-in-a-generation inflection point for workplace technology. But moments like that attract noise—every proptech startup, every IoT vendor, every facilities consultant was suddenly an "expert" on the future of work. The challenge wasn't just getting coverage. It was establishing Density as the company defining the category, not one of dozens claiming to.

The Strategy

  • We went wide and we went fast. The $51M Series C became the anchor—Forbes, TechCrunch, Fortune, Business Insider, VentureBeat, The Information all covered it. But funding announcements fade. The real play was positioning Density's leadership as the voices shaping how companies thought about space.
  • We got them in WIRED talking about privacy. Axios on workplace trends. The Wall Street Journal on the return-to-office debate. CNBC on the business case. We didn't just chase tech media—we went after real estate, facilities management, HR, sustainability. Anywhere decisions about physical space were being made, Density's name showed up.
  • And we evolved the narrative beyond COVID. This wasn't just about pandemic safety—it was about environmental impact, employee experience, the fundamental question of why offices exist at all. That's a story with legs beyond any single news cycle.

The Results

Density became the name in workplace intelligence. Uber, Pinterest, Okta, Shopify—companies that could choose anyone chose them. Record revenue year. 1.25 billion square feet measured across 32 countries.

But the real result was category ownership. When journalists needed a quote about the future of physical space, they called Density. When enterprises evaluated workplace sensors, Density was the benchmark. We didn't just ride the COVID moment—we helped Density define what came after it.

About Salient PR

Salient is a B2B tech PR agency. We help startups become the story — landing tier-one coverage, building executive visibility, and turning attention into pipeline.

Senior team. No hand-offs. Radical transparency. If you’re ready to talk, reach out.

Portrait of Aleks Strub, a smiling woman with long blonde hair and glasses wearing a light grey sweater, standing against a white background with arms crossed.

Working with Salient is so different from any other PR firm. It means that you have someone embedded in your team doing the actual work.

Portrait of Aleks Strub, a smiling woman with long blonde hair and glasses wearing a light grey sweater, standing against a white background with arms crossed.

Aleks Strub

CMO at Density

More projects to explore

Stylized alpaca portrait on a black background, split between woolly fur and a sleek cyborg face with glowing purple details.

Vanta

Vanta had quietly built the platform that automates security compliance — then Sequoia led their Series A and they needed to become the category in one moment. So we ran surgery, not volume: six placements averaging 92 domain authority, anchored by a Forbes exclusive that landed Vanta on Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups list.

Learn more

Vanta

Vanta had quietly built the platform that automates security compliance — then Sequoia led their Series A and they needed to become the category in one moment. So we ran surgery, not volume: six placements averaging 92 domain authority, anchored by a Forbes exclusive that landed Vanta on Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups list.

Learn more
A close-up of a shiny metal carabiner with red clips securing a knotted rope. The rope is red and blue, creating a sense of strength and reliability.

BuildOps

BuildOps hit unicorn status. Then the Governor showed up. We put their CEO in Newsweek, then drove their Series C across TechCrunch and Reuters. Today, politicians cut ribbons at their expansions.

Learn more

BuildOps

BuildOps hit unicorn status. Then the Governor showed up. We put their CEO in Newsweek, then drove their Series C across TechCrunch and Reuters. Today, politicians cut ribbons at their expansions.

Learn more
Yellow and silver futuristic device with a screen showing a simple smiling face and small round holes below it.

Picslo

In late 2021, every social audio app was “the next Clubhouse.” We positioned Walkie-Talkie as the opposite — raw, anonymous, built for Gen Z, not Silicon Valley. A TechCrunch exclusive anchored the $3.25M seed, and within weeks the app hit #1 in social networking across seven countries.

Learn more

Picslo

In late 2021, every social audio app was “the next Clubhouse.” We positioned Walkie-Talkie as the opposite — raw, anonymous, built for Gen Z, not Silicon Valley. A TechCrunch exclusive anchored the $3.25M seed, and within weeks the app hit #1 in social networking across seven countries.

Learn more
3D-rendered silver coin with a raised stylized “Y” and dot on a glossy green face, shown at an angle against a black background.

YieldClub

Three days before launch, the wire service killed YieldClub’s release. We pivoted in 72 hours.

Learn more

YieldClub

Three days before launch, the wire service killed YieldClub’s release. We pivoted in 72 hours.

Learn more
White weather monitoring device with sensors and antennas, designed for atmospheric data collection.

Arable

Arable came to us with zero customers. Since 2016, we’ve grown them from startup to global leader, featured in TIME, Quartz, and IEEE Spectrum. Today they partner with Google and the World Food Programme.

Learn more

Arable

Arable came to us with zero customers. Since 2016, we’ve grown them from startup to global leader, featured in TIME, Quartz, and IEEE Spectrum. Today they partner with Google and the World Food Programme.

Learn more
Futuristic metallic device with blue illuminated square window and valve-like wheel on a black background.

Brickeye

We transformed a 45-second automatic shutoff that kept a jobsite from flooding into a powerful conservation story, connecting Brickeye’s technology to construction waste and water sustainability.

Learn more

Brickeye

We transformed a 45-second automatic shutoff that kept a jobsite from flooding into a powerful conservation story, connecting Brickeye’s technology to construction waste and water sustainability.

Learn more
Metallic frame with two purple triangular shapes inside, one darker and one lighter, against a black background.

Campaign Monitor

Campaign Monitor was profitable for a decade with 100,000+ customers, yet nearly unknown in the US. We turned that anonymity into the story and secured coverage in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat.

Learn more

Campaign Monitor

Campaign Monitor was profitable for a decade with 100,000+ customers, yet nearly unknown in the US. We turned that anonymity into the story and secured coverage in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, TechCrunch, and VentureBeat.

Learn more
Futuristic metallic device with blue illuminated square window and valve-like wheel on a black background.

Brickeye

Brickeye came to us with a $10M Series B. We turned its story about automated water-damage prevention into an Engineering News-Record exclusive, connecting the technology to the builders’ risk challenges facing contractors, developers, and insurers.

Learn more

Brickeye

Brickeye came to us with a $10M Series B. We turned its story about automated water-damage prevention into an Engineering News-Record exclusive, connecting the technology to the builders’ risk challenges facing contractors, developers, and insurers.

Learn more
3D metallic silver letter "C" with green glass-like inner elements and three green ascending bars on top, against a black background.

CircleCI

Four years, three funding rounds, and three continents. We helped CircleCI grow from startup to category leader through product launches, funding announcements, thought leadership, and tier-one coverage.

Learn more

CircleCI

Four years, three funding rounds, and three continents. We helped CircleCI grow from startup to category leader through product launches, funding announcements, thought leadership, and tier-one coverage.

Learn more
3D-rendered translucent red cube with a white letter "B" inside, set against a black background.

Browserbase

Two weeks to launch. No press kit. No contacts. We landed an in-depth exclusive announcing their seed and put headless browsers on the map.

Learn more

Browserbase

Two weeks to launch. No press kit. No contacts. We landed an in-depth exclusive announcing their seed and put headless browsers on the map.

Learn more
Hexagonal futuristic planter with rows of small glowing green crystals embedded in soil, framed by metallic silver edges.

AgriERP

AgriERP had built its name in India’s farm sector but was invisible in America—no funding to announce, no launch, no news hook at all. In under 90 days, they had a mention in Forbes and a sponsored story in AgDaily, the trade press that sits on farm-office desks. Credibility, built from nothing.

Learn more

AgriERP

AgriERP had built its name in India’s farm sector but was invisible in America—no funding to announce, no launch, no news hook at all. In under 90 days, they had a mention in Forbes and a sponsored story in AgDaily, the trade press that sits on farm-office desks. Credibility, built from nothing.

Learn more
Minimalist circular object with turquoise upper arc and white lower arc, metallic connectors, centered on black; modern, clean, futuristic tone.

SuperLayer

When FTX collapsed and most of crypto went into hiding, SuperLayer did the opposite—and we made sure people saw it. We landed their Polygon-led $25M fund in The Block and CoinDesk, put their leadership on CNBC twice, and earned a Fast Company feature for their portfolio. Visibility, while the market hid.

Learn more

SuperLayer

When FTX collapsed and most of crypto went into hiding, SuperLayer did the opposite—and we made sure people saw it. We landed their Polygon-led $25M fund in The Block and CoinDesk, put their leadership on CNBC twice, and earned a Fast Company feature for their portfolio. Visibility, while the market hid.

Learn more
Futuristic silver coin with a bold raised “T” emblem, glowing blue inner ring, and ridged edge, floating against a black background.

TrueUSD

TrueUSD entered a market dominated by an opaque incumbent. During our 2018-2019 work, we positioned it around its real-time attestations—earning coverage in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and The Economist as it became a top-five digital dollar at the time.

Learn more

TrueUSD

TrueUSD entered a market dominated by an opaque incumbent. During our 2018-2019 work, we positioned it around its real-time attestations—earning coverage in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and The Economist as it became a top-five digital dollar at the time.

Learn more
White weather monitoring device with sensors and antennas, designed for atmospheric data collection.

Arable

We repositioned Arable’s technology around water conservation and corporate sustainability, helping open the door to partnerships with Google and other global companies.

Learn more

Arable

We repositioned Arable’s technology around water conservation and corporate sustainability, helping open the door to partnerships with Google and other global companies.

Learn more
Cheerful orange-and-silver robot character with a smiling face, raised white-tipped antenna arms, and black feet, isolated on black.

Tenzo

Tenzo’s £600K and £1.4M rounds were too small for major tech media. We shifted the story from funding to food waste and business impact, securing exclusives in TechCrunch and VentureBeat.

Learn more

Tenzo

Tenzo’s £600K and £1.4M rounds were too small for major tech media. We shifted the story from funding to food waste and business impact, securing exclusives in TechCrunch and VentureBeat.

Learn more

Ready to stop managing your agency?