Science go-to-market studio

We take hard science from bench to market.

Mesa develops the brand, marketing strategy, and commercial story that move breakthroughs from promising to backable.

What we do

Sprint projects to bring you from bench to market.

01
Brand
We bundle market positioning, brand design, strategic messaging, and impact-forward storytelling, equipping startups with the creative assets and value proposition they need to promote their work.
02
Web
Fast, compelling, conversion-built sites — credible to a domain expert and an investor in the same scroll.
03
Deck
We've mastered the art of pitch decks with original scientific illustration, market sizing, and impact messaging in the format that VCs expect.
04
Strategy
We’ve walked the medtech founder’s journey — we know the regulatory, clinical, and commercial hurdles ahead and can support sound decision-making.
Selected work

Companies we've helped find their language.

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HemaSense catches a hidden bleed the moment it starts - before routine recovery from a femoral access procedure turns into a surgical emergency. Mesa developed their brand, messaging strategy, pitch deck, and investor cut sheet to support fundraising efforts.

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Vectorial Corp. rebuilds a failing heart at the source. Just one dose is designed to restore cardiac muscle bioenergetics for life. Mesa developed their brand, pitch deck, and website.

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Lympha Bio grows the human immune system in miniature — a lymph-node-on-a-chip that shows how a therapy behaves on human biology, not an animal's. We shaped the positioning, pitch, and animated site that took that science to market.

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Cairina sees where cancer will move next — mapping fluid flow through the tumor in 3D to turn a CT scan into a forecast. Mesa built the brand, pitch deck, and website that make that leap legible to clinicians, investors, and strategics alike.

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CoreAlert finds the bleed a CT scanner never gets to — fast, rugged, and built for the field, the ambulance, and the front line. Mesa built the brand and investor pitch deck.

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Acomhal goes after the cancer cells chemo leaves behind — disarming the resistant ones that drive relapse and spread. Mesa built the brand, pitch deck, and website.

Why Mesa

Most agencies can make science look good. Few enjoy reading the paper.

Mesa is founder-led — we've built a life sciences startup, run the raise, written patents, tinkered and prototyped, talked to customers and VAC members, and conducted preclinical research. We'll use our experience to identify the strongest version of your company's story that's true, defensible, and still lands with investors and funders.

15+
Years translating science for the market
Founder-led
We know the raise from the inside
One studio
Skip the agency bloat. Commercial strategy and marketing execution under one roof
Whit Slightham, founder of Mesa Marketing
Who you’ll work with

I’ve spent 16 years helping technical brands find their market — in communications, in commercialization, and as a medical device inventor, co-founder, and CEO myself. I know what it’s like to hold a patent in one hand and pitch decks and market forecasts in the other, with fundraising riding on both.

I started Mesa to give outstanding founders the strategic executive lens I wish I had early on. With a deep bench of specialists across fields and a rolodex of funders, I offer more than your average marketing and PR team.

Whit SlighthamFounder, Mesa Marketing
Let's build

Your science deserves a go-to-market
strategy built to win.

Tell me what you're building and where you are in the raise, and I'll come back with the first moves I'd make. No pitch, no pressure — just a quick chat about your innovation and where it goes next.

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