We accelerate the understanding and adoption of the world’s most innovative health technologies.
Approach
The future of health is here. After decades of fundamental research and technological advancement, scientists can better understand the human genome, identify disease earlier, map its progression, and proactively intervene to help people more effectively sustain their health.
Thermal is uniquely built to assist the most innovative brands and leaders enabling this new frontier of digital health solutions. We are not a generic public relations agency supporting generic science. Rather, we provide a bespoke mix of strategic services for teams blurring traditional boundaries and working to solve our most intractable health challenges and radically improve the lives of millions.
As a result of our work together, digital health brands and notable executives and scientists are better positioned to lead the critical debates – ethical, legal, societal, technical, and political – that come with developing and scaling the most disruptive advances of our time.
300+
integrated campaigns
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media impressions
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M&A/fundraising announced
Capabilities
We offer an integrated communications approach that helps digital health companies succeed. Our most frequent asks are to educate audiences, establish leadership, safeguard reputations, and encourage market adoption.
We achieve that and more through a curated mix of eight marketing communications and design services.
Leadership
Our story is one of entrepreneurship, deep technical experience, and industry trust. We share our clients’ sense of adventure, discovery, and innovation, and champion these powerful values intrinsic to the human spirit.
We are headquartered in San Francisco and active across Silicon Valley and globally, helping visionaries build awareness and preference for their research, point of view, products, and services through dynamic communications approaches.
Partnering
We deploy decades of collective experience, judgement, and proprietary methodologies that allow our clients to navigate key inflection points and connect the relevance of their scientific breakthroughs with societal needs and expectations. We collaborate with companies of all sizes and stages in three distinct ways.
Retainer 6+ months
An immersive agency-of-record relationship utilizing our seven services areas to help achieve business objectives through proactive planning, strategic
counsel, and ongoing tactical execution, testing, and iteration.
Sprint 1-3 months
A focused partnership to rapidly roadmap and deploy tactics that address specific and timely opportunities or challenges such as a product launch, spotlight campaign, crisis, rebrand, or patent dispute.
Workshop 1-5 days
An intensive strategic session aimed at collaboratively providing planning input, messaging exercises, media training, creative brainstorms, case study analysis, communications road mapping, marketing templates, and leadership talking points.
Clients
Our ecosystem of former and current clients and partners are the startups, entrepreneurs, global healthcare companies, and industry titans that first brought us breakthroughs in CRISPR gene editing, new models of mental health care, landmark research in stem cells, infectious disease, genomics, and CAR-T cell and gene therapies.
Their work is resulting in next generation healthcare offerings that redefine what is possible. Their vision is revolutionary, their methods are novel, and they expect immersive counsel and extraordinary results from an experienced, agile team active on the outermost edge of what is possible.
