About the Company.

San Francisco provides integrated marketing and PR services for growth companies.

Our Story.

Startup-style marketing & PR for SMBs and corporate venturing businesses.

Juhani Polkko founded San Francisco Agency in 2009. In the beginning, we helped dozens of Finnish consumer brands get started on Facebook. The company soon became the first agency in Finland to solely focus on startups, and the team began to grow in 2013. Our next milestone was reached in 2016 when we expanded our offering to all internationalizing SMBs and began working with our first corporate venturing client.
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Founder & CMO: Juhani Polkko

Juhani founded his first company at the age of 18. After 7 years working in consumer electronics and entertainment software distribution, he moved to Silicon Valley to help the first wave of Finnish mobile content companies conquer the U.S. market. He founded his first technology startup in San Francisco in 2005 – a venture that ultimately failed.

Back in Finland, he consulted several startup companies and also experienced working in a big corporation – heading Nokia’s mobile advertising sales in the Nordic countries. From 2009-2012, Juhani taught marketing to Swedish entrepreneurs in San Francisco Oy’s first major startup success story, advertising technology company Freespee AB.

In addition to supporting the growth of both San Francisco and its clients, Juhani is an advisor and shareholder in several startup companies. He is also a member of the Finnish Business Angel Network (FiBAN) and a mentor at the Founder Institute and Vertical Accelerator.

Getting things done together.

The San Francisco team consists of an international network of professionals and a core team based in Helsinki, Finland.