Today, Influence Matters celebrates 1 year of existence. It’s been a great adventure so far, navigating through the ups and downs of startup life, learning how to set up a business in China, and building a budding brand for the agency as a new breed of independent, flexible, responsive and no-compromise strategic PR and marketing services firm for innovative companies in China.

12 companies, one a month on average, have heard us so far and became clients, and many more are listening already. Those include startups in Beijing such as our very first client Origins technology, maker of the famed Laser Egg smart air quality monitor (now available in all Apple Stores in China, W00T!), Chinese (newly minted) unicorns, such as RED / 小红书 who just got valued at $1 Billion, and larger non Chinese B2B tech companies such as French semicon innovator Soitec, who’s strategic media outreach in China sparked conversations about their tech all the way in the U.S, and our latest win Mackevision, a German leading CGI company that does VFX for Game of Thrones.

Some of these companies chose to work with us rather than big established agencies because they see the value they get from working with an agency that will go all out for every client, big or small.

We are blessed. It is all hard work, and I can’t thank enough the team that was involved on making all these project successes: Agnes, Kefei, Haiting, Lucie, Naomi and Jiayue. If you want to join that team, we are still looking for great talent to join us!

On to another great year! And Many more!