30 Growth Marketing Agencies for Startups and Scaling Companies

By Jake Jorgovan, a partner in Fieldtrip, the agency group that includes inBeat and Web Tonic. Both are among the 30 firms below.
Published Updated 27 min read
Hiring a growth marketing agency means handing an outside team part of the work of finding and keeping customers. Some agencies plan and run several channels together: paid search and social, conversion work on your site, email and reporting. Others concentrate on one channel, such as organic search, or on one kind of company, such as consumer brands or B2B software. Which kind you need depends on what already works in your business and what you still have to prove.
This guide compares 30 growth marketing agencies for startups and scaling companies. It sets out who each firm says it serves, the client results it publishes and any fees or terms it states, then covers how to match an agency to your stage and what to settle before you sign.
The firms were chosen from a wider set of candidates, each checked on its own site on October 6, 2026. A firm is listed when its pages offer growth marketing (a growth marketing, growth hacking or growth team service, not general digital marketing alone) and name at least one client, case or testimonial. Figures and terms are the firms' own, and several firms work across the groups.
Growth marketing agencies at a glance
If no channel is reliably bringing in customers yet, start by checking which full-funnel teams accept your stage and will run channel tests. Consumer brands spending heavily on paid media and creative should look at the second group, B2B companies at the third, and companies that want organic search and AI answers to become a second channel at the fourth.
| Firm | Group | Primary fit | Published evidence to examine |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full-funnel growth teams13 of 30 firms | |||
| Amura | Full-funnel growth teams | B2B and consumer companies in India | SANY India paid search and SEO case |
| Growketing | Full-funnel growth teams | Paid media, SEO and data work for companies in Latin America | Fanatiz pay-per-view campaign |
| Growth Hackers | Full-funnel growth teams | Customer and app-user acquisition with weekly testing and reporting | Magrid enrollment case and a Voodoo testimonial |
| GrowthGirls | Full-funnel growth teams | Growth-stage marketing across SEO, conversion, ads and retention | Client gallery naming Mindvalley |
| GrowthHit | Full-funnel growth teams | Conversion testing and paid media for businesses that already have traction | Labster cost-per-lead and demo-form case |
| GrowthRocks | Full-funnel growth teams | Hourly or monthly growth consulting, with execution tiers | Medipass project and published tier prices |
| HypeLife Brands | Full-funnel growth teams | Startups and challenger brands that need brand and growth work together | Techvestor investor-acquisition result |
| Ladder | Full-funnel growth teams | Paid social growth built on creative testing | INNE customer-acquisition case |
| Modern Marketing Partners | Full-funnel growth teams | Startup acquisition through content, outreach and digital channels | Named startup clients on its service page |
| Smartboost | Full-funnel growth teams | SEO, website and paid work on monthly plans | Named SEO clients and published plan prices |
| The Growth Agency | Full-funnel growth teams | A revenue roadmap, then fully managed growth | Europ Assistance revenue case and published prices |
| Wealth Ideas | Full-funnel growth teams | Small businesses building a growth plan before hiring in-house | Adhesif Clothing return on ad spend |
| Web Tonic | Full-funnel growth teams | Paid, organic and email channels run by one in-house team | Food Allergy Institute and Her-Age cases |
| Consumer brands at scale7 of 30 firms | |||
| Growth Gorilla | Consumer brands at scale | User acquisition for fintech and financial services | GoTrade acquisition-cost case |
| Growth Marketing Genie | Consumer brands at scale | Player acquisition for games and apps | Word Crossy and Owls & Vowels cases |
| Growthcurve | Consumer brands at scale | Paid social, search and creative for funded consumer, fintech and app companies | Coinbase, GrabrFi, AliExpress and Era results |
| inBeat | Consumer brands at scale | Creator content and paid social for consumer brands and apps | Hurom, HelloFresh and Booksy results |
| NEON Growth | Consumer brands at scale | Multichannel paid media with full-funnel measurement | MagBak revenue case |
| Superbolt | Consumer brands at scale | Direct-to-consumer brands from launch to wholesale | Saie and Aurate revenue cases |
| Top Growth Marketing | Consumer brands at scale | Paid media, email and creative for Shopify brands | Named founder testimonials |
| B2B and SaaS pipeline7 of 30 firms | |||
| Compound Growth Marketing | B2B and SaaS pipeline | Paid media and SEO tied to pipeline for B2B SaaS | Spot.ai, Airtable and enterprise cybersecurity cases |
| Digitlab | B2B and SaaS pipeline | Lead generation plans on HubSpot for startups in South Africa | Published plan prices and named founder testimonials |
| Double | B2B and SaaS pipeline | Growth-stage companies selling complex products | Glowforge UK launch |
| Growth Marketing Pro | B2B and SaaS pipeline | SEO, AI search and paid media for technology companies | Cube organic pipeline case |
| Growth Operations Firm | B2B and SaaS pipeline | Account-based marketing on HubSpot | Mechanix Wear pipeline case |
| NBT Digital | B2B and SaaS pipeline | Strategy, paid media, content and CRM for B2B and SaaS | Ten named client testimonials |
| O8 | B2B and SaaS pipeline | Fractional marketing leadership and execution for B2B startups | Named clients and published investment ranges |
| Organic search specialists3 of 30 firms | |||
| Organic Growth Marketing (OGM) | Organic search specialists | Organic search and AI answers for B2B SaaS past product-market fit | Matterport and Hotjar testimonials |
| Relevance | Organic search specialists | Digital PR, SEO and AI visibility for challenger brands | Talkspace and SmartSource cases |
| Skale | Organic search specialists | SEO and AI search for SaaS, run by a dedicated team | Maze, Perkbox and Pitch results |
Growth marketing agency profiles
Full-funnel growth teams
13 of 30 firmsThese firms plan and run several channels as one program, usually with a testing cadence and a regular report. Their stage requirements differ: GrowthHit expects traction, while GrowthRocks sells early-stage consulting. Check whether the proposed engagement includes testing and execution, or advice alone.
Amura website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A B2B or consumer company in India that wants paid media, SEO, CRM and content run as one program
- Evidence
- SANY India case study (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- none on the pages read
For SANY India, a construction equipment maker, Amura reports ₹35 crores in revenue generated through Google Ads on a monthly spend of ₹2,00,000, with organic traffic up from 2,797 to 13,246 monthly users. The growth marketing page links three further case studies.
Amura says it has more than 300 clients across manufacturing, real estate, SaaS, healthcare, education, financial services and direct-to-consumer brands. Its page says most clients see early signals within four to eight weeks, with results building over 90 days.
Growketing
Back to the comparisonGrowketing website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A company growing in Latin America that wants paid media, SEO and data work from one team
- Evidence
- Fanatiz case study (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- none on the pages read
For Fanatiz, Growketing ran a Google campaign around the Boca Juniors versus River Plate match. The firm says that match sold the most through pay-per-view and generated its highest conversion at a cost 50% lower than the previous year. Its homepage adds bplay (40% more conversions) and Hipotecario Seguros (940% more organic keywords).
The firm describes itself as a growth, data and AI agency based in Argentina with Latin American operations. Its growth marketing service (opens in a new tab) combines paid media, SEO, data, revenue operations, a creative studio and web optimization. It also says it is one of three agencies in Latin America in Google's International Growth Agency Program.
Growth Hackers
Back to the comparisonGrowth Hackers website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A company or app that wants one team running acquisition, testing and weekly reporting
- Evidence
- case studies (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- none on the pages read
Magrid, an early childhood learning app, leads Growth Hackers' case-study page under the headline "Enroll 48K+ Students Globally". Alexandre Yazdi, CEO of Voodoo, says on the homepage that the firm implemented mobile marketing strategies for its games and provided consulting and coaching.
The customer acquisition service (opens in a new tab) covers lead generation, split testing, weekly optimization and weekly reports, along with mobile app user acquisition. The homepage FAQ describes two phases, an analysis of the market and competitors and then execution, with the budget, goals, timeline and channels set together with the client. Firm-wide, it says it has helped clients make $180+ million in sales.
GrowthGirls
Back to the comparisonGrowthGirls website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A startup or established company that wants SEO, conversion, advertising and retention work organized around growth stages
- Evidence
- a "Trusted by" client gallery on its homepage
- Published pricing
- none on the homepage
GrowthGirls lists Mindvalley and Bunkr in the "Trusted by" gallery on its homepage. The gallery names clients but does not describe a project or a result.
The firm calls itself a growth marketing agency for clients from startups to established companies. Its services cover SEO, conversion rate optimization, UX, inbound and content marketing, online advertising, social media, analytics and influencer marketing, with industry pages for SaaS, ecommerce, B2B and B2C services.
GrowthHit
Back to the comparisonGrowthHit website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- An ecommerce, B2B or lead-generation business with traction that wants conversion testing and paid media run together
- Evidence
- Labster case study (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- none; the homepage FAQ states a 100-day progress guarantee
GrowthHit's Labster case reports 53 A/B tests for the education technology company. Labster's redesigned homepage, with a single call to action, lifted demo form submissions by 145% at 97% confidence. A Spanish-language campaign in Latin America brought cost per lead to $7.10, against a blended historical $90. The page says US and Canadian leads had cost $97 to $137 each on a $35,500 monthly ad budget.
The firm's FAQ says it is best suited to ecommerce (Shopify), B2B and lead-generation businesses doing over seven figures that already have traction. It offers a done-for-you model or a done-with-you model in which your team executes. Its conversion rate optimization page (opens in a new tab) promises "No Long Contracts."
- Ask first
- The FAQ's 100-day guarantee covers clarity on what is holding growth back, a roadmap and active execution, rather than a revenue result. The homepage separately says that at 120 days, if the firm has not paid for itself, "you shouldn't keep us". Ask how paying for itself is measured and what happens if it does not.
- Sources
- GrowthHit, website (opens in a new tab)
GrowthRocks
Back to the comparisonGrowthRocks website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- An early-stage startup that wants senior growth advice on a small budget, or a company that wants an outside CMO function
- Evidence
- Medipass case study (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- indicative prices of $400 an hour and monthly tiers from $3,000 to $15,000 (tiers page (opens in a new tab))
GrowthRocks' Medipass case, published in April 2022, describes a two-month project for a fertility-care marketplace: a marketplace build, lead-nurturing automation and an SEO migration. The agency says it migrated all traffic without losing rankings. Its case-study page (opens in a new tab) also names CareersPath, Volta Wireless, Door International and Viral-Loops, each with the work done.
The tiers page lists indicative prices in October 2026. GrowthBites is a two-hour, single-topic session at $400 an hour for early-stage startups that cannot afford higher prices. Pure consulting costs $3k to $5k a month with no execution, consulting with execution $4k to $10k, and a CMO Office $5k to $15k for companies that want the firm to take full ownership. A full implementation tier has no price. The page says prices "are indicative and may vary" with the size, stage and complexity of the business.
HypeLife Brands
Back to the comparisonHypeLife Brands website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A startup or challenger brand that wants brand development and paid growth from one team
- Evidence
- Techvestor result and named client testimonials on its homepage
- Published pricing
- none; paid media budgets it manages are stated
HypeLife's homepage says it helped Techvestor find, nurture and land more than 1,000 accredited retail investors, resulting in over $70M raised and a return on ad spend above 9x. Founders of UNIFI Music and LASIO Professional Haircare, and a partner at Techvestor, give named testimonials on the same page.
The agency works with startups and established businesses. Its FAQ says the paid media budgets it manages range from early-stage startups spending $60k to $120k a year to organizations spending $3M or more, and that its founder also works with some clients as a fractional CMO.
Ladder
Back to the comparisonLadder website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A company that wants a growth team built around paid social creative testing
- Evidence
- INNE case study (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- none; the homepage mentions performance pricing without terms
For INNE, a German fertility-monitoring subscription, Ladder tested messages, visual styles and video formats on Facebook. It reports a historically low customer acquisition cost of €335, which it says fell an average 52% a month since July, and says video ads contributed 35% of the quarter's sales. The page does not give the year.
Its solutions page (opens in a new tab) offers a playbook-building engagement, a full growth team and support for an in-house team. The homepage promises a growth team "in days with performance pricing".
- Ask first
- The INNE case gives no year. Ask for recent clients comparable to yours and for what performance pricing means in the contract.
- Sources
- Ladder, website (opens in a new tab)
Modern Marketing Partners
Back to the comparisonModern Marketing Partners website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- An early, mid or late-stage startup that wants content, outreach, paid search and lead generation from one team
- Evidence
- named startup clients on its startup marketing page
- Published pricing
- none on the startup service page
Modern Marketing Partners names PeerWell, Legal Services Link and ioRefer among the early, mid and late-stage startups it says it has put on a growth trajectory. The same page reports results without naming the clients, such as a 420% increase in online leads.
Its startup offer includes growth hacking through combined content and outreach, branding, website design and conversion work, paid search and SEO, content marketing, lead generation and email marketing. The firm says its roots go back to 1996.
Smartboost
Back to the comparisonSmartboost website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A company that wants SEO, website and paid work from one team on a monthly plan
- Evidence
- portfolio (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- website and SEO plans starting at $269 a month, billed annually (pricing (opens in a new tab))
Smartboost's portfolio names its clients and the work: SEO for Delsey Paris, a luggage brand on Shopify; SEO for Huyett, an industrial parts distributor; and a website and SEO for Blooma, a commercial real estate lending platform. Its growth marketing page adds case headlines for unnamed clients, including organic traffic up 588% in 12 months for a software company.
The growth marketing page lists three payment types: monthly retainers, a service fee or commission, and equity, which it says is only available to startups. The page, read in October 2026, says onboarding typically takes two weeks and a growth plan five to seven weeks. Website plans start at $269, $539 and $1,124 a month and SEO plans at $269, $539 and $899, all billed annually, and the FAQ (opens in a new tab) says those plans run on a 12-month minimum before going month to month. No separate growth marketing price is published.
The Growth Agency
Back to the comparisonThe Growth Agency website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A company that wants a revenue roadmap first, then a team that takes ownership of growth
- Evidence
- Europ Assistance case study (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- a €15,000 four-week plan; managed growth from €10K a month
The Growth Agency has worked since 2018 with Europ Assistance, a travel insurer whose marketing team has six people. It reports ad-driven revenue from Google and Bing up 39% year over year in one period and 54% the next, with a 6.6 return on ad spend by the third year. Its homepage adds Edenred, Sip Well and ISB.
In October 2026 its homepage listed two offers: a Revenue Growth Plan, a four-week sprint that ends in a 12-month roadmap, for €15,000; and a Yearly Revenue Track, a fully managed service from €10K a month.
- Ask first
- The homepage gives two different quarterly intake limits, three new companies for the plan and five CMOs. Confirm availability and start dates directly.
- Sources
- The Growth Agency, website (opens in a new tab)
Wealth Ideas
Back to the comparisonWealth Ideas website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A small business that wants a growth plan and roadmap run for it until it is ready to hire in-house
- Evidence
- named client testimonials on its growth marketing page
- Published pricing
- varies by service; most projects start with a quarterly minimum
The growth marketing page shows a result under the name of Melissa Ferreira, founder of Adhesif Clothing: a 4x return on ad spend from $10K a month in ad spend, which the agency says it reached within four months. Gage Karren, owner of Kokua Home Services, gives a separate named testimonial.
Wealth Ideas says it builds a growth marketing foundation, a strategic vision and a roadmap "until you're ready to hire in-house". Its FAQ says prices depend on the service and package, most projects start with a quarterly minimum, some services carry an onboarding fee, and quarterly subscriptions take 10% off the monthly price.
Web Tonic
Back to the comparisonPart of Fieldtrip, in which the author is a partner
Web Tonic website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A company that wants paid search, paid social, SEO and email built and run by one in-house team
- Evidence
- case studies (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- Scale-phase management from $5,000 a month, month to month (S³ model page (opens in a new tab))
At the Food Allergy Institute in Long Beach, California, Web Tonic says monthly booked enrollment consultations grew from 243 in January 2026 to 1,012 in September 2026. Meta spend over that nine-month period was $717,944, up 1.7% year over year. For Her-Age, an Italian luxury resale business, it reports €235,171 of tracked purchase value on €35,486 of Google Ads spend over 12 months. Many of its other listed cases are SEO and Google Ads work for local businesses in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada.
Its growth marketing service (opens in a new tab) covers paid search, SEO and AI-search visibility, email and SMS, content and organic social, programmatic and out-of-home, and recruitment marketing. The S³ model page describes three phases, Strategize, Structure and Scale, says nothing is subcontracted and says the client owns every funnel, sequence and tracking setup. The first two phases take the first two months, and some clients are onboarded in as few as seven days, depending on complexity. Ongoing management in the Scale phase was listed from $5K a month in October 2026, with "Defined scope, not a retainer", month to month. The page gives no price for the first two phases.
Consumer brands at scale
7 of 30 firmsThese firms concentrate on consumer, ecommerce, fintech and app companies that spend significant budgets on paid media and need creative produced and tested at volume.
Growth Gorilla
Back to the comparisonGrowth Gorilla website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A fintech or financial services company that wants paid media, influencer marketing and creative for user acquisition
- Evidence
- GoTrade case study (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- none on the pages read
Growth Gorilla reports that GoTrade, an investing app, lowered its customer acquisition cost from $250 to $50 in four months after the agency launched Meta campaigns and built three landing pages. The campaign recorded over 90 million impressions and 662,542 clicks. The homepage lists further cases for clients such as Ledn, Credit Passport, ARK Invest and FXTM.
The firm calls itself a fintech-first growth agency. Its services are paid media, influencer marketing, performance creative, conversion rate optimization and growth consultancy.
Growth Marketing Genie
Back to the comparisonGrowth Marketing Genie website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A game or app publisher that wants player acquisition, ads and creative from one team
- Evidence
- case studies (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- none on the pages read
Growth Marketing Genie's case-study page reports more than 1M new players acquired for Word Crossy and a $0.97 average cost per install, with 20K new players, for Owls & Vowels. Frank F. of Word Crossy says on the homepage that the agency produced a TV commercial for the game.
The agency describes itself as a performance marketing agency offering a start-to-finish growth marketing strategy. Most named clients on the pages read are games and apps.
Growthcurve
Back to the comparisonGrowthcurve website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A funded consumer, fintech or app company with at least $50,000 a month to spend on media
- Evidence
- results (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- none; a minimum monthly media budget to qualify (booking page (opens in a new tab))
As Coinbase's global performance creative partner, Growthcurve reports a 27% lower drop-off in know-your-customer (KYC) checks and a 14% higher first-trade rate. GrabrFi's checking-account acquisition across 28 countries shows a 31% lower first-fund acquisition cost. AliExpress recorded a 4.2x return on ad spend from retargeting in a UK sprint, and Era a 31% lift in 30-day retention.
The services page (opens in a new tab) offers a complete growth marketing department on demand or specific packages to extend your team, across paid social, paid search, ecommerce, mobile user acquisition, creative production and UGC ads. In October 2026 the booking form required a media budget of at least $50,000 a month to qualify.
inBeat
Back to the comparisonPart of Fieldtrip, in which the author is a partner
- Potential fit
- A consumer brand or app whose growth depends on creator content and paid social
- Evidence
- Hurom case study (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- none on the pages read
inBeat's Hurom case reports 300% growth in return on ad spend, a 65% reduction in overall cost per acquisition and 33% growth in month-over-month profit margin. The work moved Hurom's ads from an "always on sale" approach to health-focused messaging, with a creative strategist testing hooks, calls to action and social proof in UGC. Its case-study page (opens in a new tab) adds HelloFresh, with global acquisition costs 20% lower across 17 countries, and Booksy, with cost per acquisition 60% lower while paid media scaled sixfold.
The agency describes four service areas: influencer and UGC, strategy, paid media and performance creative. Its menu also lists growth marketing (user acquisition, conversion optimization, analytics, go-to-market). The user acquisition page (opens in a new tab) says it combines influencer marketing, UGC and paid media to increase app installs and reduce cost per install.
NEON Growth
Back to the comparisonNEON Growth website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- An established consumer brand spending across many paid channels that wants measurement beyond last-click attribution
- Evidence
- MagBak case study (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- a monthly retainer scoped to media and workstreams, with no amount
NEON Growth reports 40% year-over-year growth in blended revenue and 30% in blended conversions for MagBak, a direct-to-consumer phone accessories brand, measured with Fospha in the January after its Black Friday and Cyber Monday diversification. The case covers rebalancing MagBak's core channels and adding TikTok, Reddit, Snapchat, AppLovin's Axon and X. Over the same year, revenue attributed to paid media by last click fell 20%, a narrower measure than blended revenue.
Its enterprise accounts page (opens in a new tab) describes a partner-led team, weekly syncs, monthly reviews, quarterly business reviews and a 90-day onboarding plan. Fees are a "Monthly retainer scoped to media under management and workstreams", and client references and case detail are available under NDA on request.
Superbolt
Back to the comparisonSuperbolt website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A direct-to-consumer brand at any stage from pre-launch to wholesale expansion
- Evidence
- case studies (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- none; services "tailored to each client"
Superbolt's case-study page says it supported Saie "from brand launch to reaching $100M in revenue". Its Aurate case (opens in a new tab) covers a New York fine jewelry brand whose revenue it says quadrupled year over year in 2017, 2018 and 2019, from Facebook and Instagram ads followed by Criteo, FuelX, Quantcast, AdWords and direct mail. Daria Lupinacci, Aurate's SVP of marketing, calls the firm "an essential part of our marketing strategy".
The firm sells three tiers by stage: Brand Launch for brands before launch and up to 12 months old, Growth Acceleration (opens in a new tab) for brands with an existing direct-to-consumer focus, and D2C Expansion for brands with a wholesale or retail focus.
Top Growth Marketing
Back to the comparisonTop Growth Marketing website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A Shopify brand that wants paid media, email, SMS and creative from one team
- Evidence
- named founder testimonials on its homepage
- Published pricing
- none on the pages read
Top Growth Marketing says it has managed $336M+ in ad spend across Meta, Google, TikTok, Pinterest and Snapchat, firm-wide. Josh Leyva, co-founder of Taste Salud, says the brand has worked with the agency for two years, and Kara Harshbarger, founder of C Curl, gives another named testimonial.
Founded in 2011, the agency describes itself as a full-stack growth agency for direct-to-consumer and Shopify brands. It says it works with brands doing $100K to $25M+ in annual revenue.
B2B and SaaS pipeline
7 of 30 firmsThese firms measure growth in leads, pipeline and revenue, for companies with longer sales cycles or high-consideration products.
Compound Growth Marketing
Back to the comparisonCompound Growth Marketing website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A B2B SaaS company that needs paid media and SEO tied to pipeline
- Evidence
- case studies (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- none on the pages read
Spot.ai's monthly pipeline from paid acquisition rose 740% while its ad spend rose 176%, according to Compound Growth Marketing's six-month case chart. Its enterprise case reports that an unnamed cybersecurity client's pipeline rose 168% from Q4 2024 to Q3 2025 while the budget rose 9%. The homepage says Airtable achieved a 60% increase in high-intent leads in six months without increasing spend.
The firm calls itself a B2B demand generation firm built by former operators, covering go-to-market engineering, strategy, SEO and paid media. Its Predictable Demand System (opens in a new tab) starts with 45 days of onboarding, then a three-month roadmap and quarterly reviews. An enterprise page (opens in a new tab) offers full-funnel media programs or coaching for an in-house team. Firm-wide, it says it has worked with nearly 100 B2B SaaS businesses since 2018.
Digitlab
Back to the comparison- Potential fit
- A startup or small business in South Africa that wants lead generation run on HubSpot
- Evidence
- named founder testimonials on its startup page
- Published pricing
- indicative plans from R14,750 a month, including advertising (growth marketing plan (opens in a new tab))
Daniel Greaves, co-founder and CEO of Salty Lemon, says on Digitlab's startup page that its team integrated HubSpot with his sales and revenue teams. Nadia Henderson, founder of Act On, gives a second named testimonial.
Digitlab's growth marketing plan combines content, paid social, Google Ads and HubSpot automation. In October 2026 its plans started at R14,750, R17,800 and R24,500 a month. The page says these prices are an indication and include HubSpot software, all advertising costs, setup, monthly management, strategy, reporting and creative.
Double
Back to the comparisonDouble website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A growth-stage company selling a complex or technical product, especially one entering a new market
- Evidence
- Glowforge case study (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- none; a free 15-minute intro call
Glowforge's UK launch is Double's featured case. The agency adapted the 3D laser printer company's US approach with top-of-funnel ads, persona-based email, downloadable content and one-to-one digital demos. It reports $1M in revenue and 24k leads after testing more than 150 copy and creative combinations.
Double describes itself as a growth marketing agency and says its favorite clients sell complex products. Its portfolio page (opens in a new tab) describes its clients as growth-stage companies, "Series A and beyond", past product-market fit. Its services span product marketing and content, performance and outbound, brand and design, and analytics and strategy. The portfolio also lists work for TikTok, Payhawk, InsideTracker and Lely.
Growth Marketing Pro
Back to the comparisonGrowth Marketing Pro website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A technology company that wants SEO, AI search and paid media run by a senior team
- Evidence
- Cube case study (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- none on the pages read
Growth Marketing Pro's Cube case, published in July 2026, covers a partnership with the financial planning software company that began in December 2020. The agency reports growing inbound traffic from virtually zero to 60,000+ monthly visitors and an organic pipeline of about 700 leads a month. It separately reports about 150 leads a month from AI referral traffic.
The agency says it works with fast-growing technology companies on SEO, AI search, Reddit, content and paid media, and that its founders previously led marketing at large technology companies. It says work starts by week two.
Growth Operations Firm
Back to the comparisonGrowth Operations Firm website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A B2B company on HubSpot that wants account-based marketing tied to sales
- Evidence
- ABM service page (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- none on the pages read
Growth Operations Firm's account-based marketing page features a case titled "How Growth Drove $2.6M In Pipeline In 9 Months With ABM For Mechanix Wear". It also names music schools among its HubSpot clients.
The firm is a HubSpot partner whose services cover implementation, integrations and migrations as well as a growth marketing line of account-based marketing, website design and web operations. Its founder and CEO, Christopher Nault, describes it as a Diamond HubSpot Partner.
NBT Digital
Back to the comparisonNBT Digital website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A B2B or SaaS company that wants strategy, paid media, content and HubSpot CRM work from one team
- Evidence
- ten named client testimonials on its growth marketing page
- Published pricing
- none on the pages read
NBT's growth marketing page carries ten short testimonials, each signed with a surname, an initial and a company, among them Medianova, Logsign and RISQ. RISQ's reads: "After NBT, we saw qualified leads from brand-new accounts." The page links no case studies or results.
NBT, which also runs a startup accelerator and a training academy, describes its agency work as strategy, paid media on LinkedIn, Google and Meta, content and social, CRM and automation as a HubSpot Platinum Partner, websites and sales enablement. Its growth model sets annual and quarterly objectives and key results and tests across the funnel.
- Ask first
- With testimonials but no quantified results on the page read, ask for a case close to your sales cycle, with the measures it was judged on.
- Sources
- NBT Digital, website (opens in a new tab)
- Potential fit
- A B2B startup with a complex sales cycle that needs fractional marketing leadership and integrated execution
- Evidence
- named clients on its startup marketing page
- Published pricing
- typical monthly investment from $8,000 to $25,000+ by funding stage
O8 names MedSource Labs, which it says it supported during market entry, and Vector Magnetics among its B2B clients. Its startup page links a growth marketing service (opens in a new tab) and describes foundational SEO, content, website and CRM work followed by channel campaigns, run in 90-day sprints.
In October 2026 the page gave typical monthly investment of $8,000 to $12,000 for seed and pre-Series A companies, $12,000 to $18,000 at Series A and $18,000 to $25,000+ at Series B and later. It says these ranges assume B2B companies with three- to twelve-month sales cycles.
- Ask first
- Ask what advertising spend and software costs a proposal at these levels includes.
- Sources
- O8, website (opens in a new tab)
Organic search specialists
3 of 30 firmsThese firms run organic search, digital PR and visibility in AI-generated answers as a source of demand. They suit a company that has proven its offer and wants a second channel that compounds.
Organic Growth Marketing (OGM)
Back to the comparisonOrganic Growth Marketing (OGM) website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A B2B SaaS company past product-market fit that wants organic search and AI answers to become a revenue channel
- Evidence
- named client testimonials on its homepage
- Published pricing
- custom pricing; the firm says it is "not cheap"
Matterport's senior director of marketing says on OGM's homepage that the firm doubled Matterport's SEO-sourced pipeline and ecommerce revenue in under a year. Sharon Biggar, formerly VP of marketing at Hotjar, says it built Hotjar's SEO program from the ground up into its most efficient revenue acquisition channel.
OGM places a growth advisor inside your team, with specialists behind them, and says it does not bill by the hour. Its fit criteria are specific: post product-market fit with at least one channel working well, a brand people have heard of, clear messaging and an internal point of contact. On budget, it says it offers custom pricing and does not publish it.
Relevance
Back to the comparisonRelevance website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A challenger brand that wants digital PR, SEO and AI visibility run together
- Evidence
- case studies (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- none on the pages read
Relevance reports a 139% increase in conversion rate and a 58% better average search position for Talkspace, the online therapy platform. For SmartSource, an event technology company, it reports 65% more traffic from AI models and 50% more leads from organic search, and SmartSource's CMO, Gina McDuffie, gives a named testimonial.
The agency describes its offer as growth marketing for challenger brands, combining digital PR, SEO, content marketing and generative engine optimization. It reports securing 342 press placements for clients over a 12-month period.
Skale website, captured October 2026.
- Potential fit
- A SaaS company that wants SEO and AI search managed as a pipeline channel
- Evidence
- client stories (opens in a new tab)
- Published pricing
- none; implementation costs extra
Skale's stories page reports that Maze grew monthly organic signups by more than 283% in under six months. Perkbox reached a £110 cost per opportunity in 10 months, and Pitch grew non-brand organic signups 17x in less than a year.
Its SaaS SEO service (opens in a new tab) assigns a team of four (a strategist, a content specialist, a technical analyst and an off-page manager) with a three-month plan. The team handles full implementation "For an additional cost". The page says Skale has helped over 60 SaaS brands.
Match the agency to your stage
If you are choosing an agency for a startup, stage narrows the list quickly. For an early-stage company, the published ways in are GrowthRocks' hourly sessions, Modern Marketing Partners' startup services, Smartboost's equity payment option, Superbolt's Brand Launch tier, HypeLife's smaller paid media budgets, Digitlab's startup plans and O8's seed-stage engagements. GrowthHit, Growthcurve and OGM say they want seven-figure revenue, a $50,000 monthly media budget or product-market fit first.
| Firm | Who it says it serves | Fees and terms it publishes |
|---|---|---|
| Full-funnel growth teams8 of 17 firms | ||
| GrowthHit | Best suited to businesses doing over seven figures with traction | 100-day progress guarantee; its CRO page states "No Long Contracts." |
| GrowthRocks | Hourly sessions for early-stage startups; a CMO Office only where a team is in place | $400 an hour; $3k to $5k, $4k to $10k and $5k to $15k a month by tier; "indicative and may vary" |
| HypeLife Brands | Startups and established businesses | Paid media budgets from $60k to $120k a year up to $3M or more |
| Ladder | Not stated | Performance pricing mentioned on the homepage, without terms |
| Smartboost | Startups and established companies; equity payment only for startups | Website plans start at $269, $539 and $1,124 a month; SEO plans at $269, $539 and $899; billed annually, with a 12-month minimum |
| The Growth Agency | Companies seeking a revenue roadmap, followed by managed growth | €15,000 four-week plan; managed growth from €10K a month |
| Wealth Ideas | Small businesses until they hire in-house | Prices vary by service; most projects start with a quarterly minimum; quarterly subscriptions 10% off the monthly price |
| Web Tonic | B2B, consumer and ecommerce versions of one model | Scale-phase management from $5K a month, month to month; no price for the first two months' build |
| Consumer brands at scale4 of 17 firms | ||
| Growthcurve | Companies with a media budget of at least $50,000 a month | No fee published |
| NEON Growth | Consumer brands at scale | Monthly retainer scoped to media and workstreams |
| Superbolt | Brands from pre-launch to wholesale, in three tiers | Tailored to each client |
| Top Growth Marketing | Brands with $100K to $25M+ in annual revenue | No fee published |
| B2B and SaaS pipeline3 of 17 firms | ||
| Digitlab | Startups and small businesses | Indicative plans from R14,750 a month, including advertising costs |
| Double | Growth-stage companies, "Series A and beyond" (portfolio page) | No fee published; free 15-minute intro call |
| O8 | B2B startups with three- to twelve-month sales cycles | Typical monthly investment $8,000 to $12,000 (seed), $12,000 to $18,000 (Series A), $18,000 to $25,000+ (Series B and later) |
| Organic search specialists2 of 17 firms | ||
| Organic Growth Marketing (OGM) | Post product-market fit, with at least one channel working well | Custom pricing |
| Skale | SaaS companies | Implementation at an additional cost |
A published fee may not include media spend. Smartboost's FAQ, for example, says ad spend beyond management is usually quoted separately, while Digitlab says its plans include advertising costs. Ask every firm to separate its fee, the media budget and any production costs in the proposal.
How to choose a growth marketing agency
Start by deciding whether you need a channel found or a channel scaled. In 2021, on Working Without Pants, I described a lesson I learned from Russ Perry and from Alex McClafferty, a business advisor I worked with: "find or validate a channel first, and then really build a system around that and scale it." Before that, I jumped from tactic to tactic for a long time, which I called "naive early stage entrepreneur ADD marketing."
That is the lens I'd bring to an agency choice. If nothing works reliably yet, hire for disciplined testing of two or three channels. If one channel works, hire the team best placed to scale it.
Decide what the agency must prove
Write down which channels bring in customers today, at what cost, and what you want to be true in six months. A team that finds a channel needs room to test and drop ideas. A team that scales one needs budget and a target to scale toward.
Compare results on the measure you care about
Ask each firm for a case close to your business model, with the period, the spend and the starting point. A consumer brand's blended revenue, an app's retention and a SaaS company's pipeline are different measures. NEON Growth's MagBak case shows why blended revenue and revenue attributed to paid media need to be kept apart.
Agree measurement, ownership and exit before work starts
Decide which numbers the agency reports, from which systems, and how often. Confirm that ad accounts, tracking, landing pages and email flows are built in your accounts. Put the notice period, any minimum term and the handover in the contract.
Questions to ask before you sign
- Which channels will you test first, and what result would make you stop or scale each one?
- Which of your cases matches our business model and stage, and what were its period, spend and starting point?
- Who will work on our account each week, and is any of the work subcontracted?
- What is your fee, what is the media budget, and which costs sit outside both?
- What is the minimum term, the notice period, and what do we keep if we leave?
- If you offer a guarantee, how is it measured and what happens if it is missed?
Sources and method
How this list was made
The firms were chosen from a wider set of candidates, each checked on its own site on October 6, 2026. A firm is listed when its pages offer growth marketing (a growth marketing, growth hacking or growth team service, not general digital marketing alone) and name at least one client, case or testimonial. Figures and terms are the firms' own, and several firms work across the groups.
Agency pages read October 6, 2026

Jake Jorgovan
Jake works with enterprise leaders on marketing strategy and executive talent. He co-founded Alpha Apex Group, founded Content Allies, owns Listen Network and is a partner in Fieldtrip, a group of marketing agencies. He founded Lead Cookie and later sold it.
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