Intake Media is an independent agency that provides startups with the roadmap to define, attack, and win their market and the accountability to execute it.
We provide content production, market research, and GTM strategy for early-stage startups to create their market, make a plan for success, and deliver the right message in the right place to activate a network that accelerates their business.
We work with founders every step of the way. Together, we increase the velocity of founder-led sales.
Whether quarterbacking strategy, building process, concocting a new product, or putting the right words together, he applies hard-won lessons from more than two decades, and continues to learn every day.
VC. Stephen served as Head of Media at Squadra Ventures, a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage cyber and national security companies. In this role, he provided brand strategy, video, PR, sales content, and event production to support fundraising and go-to-market for the fund and its portfolio companies. Through this experience, he learned how to create collaboratively with founders, and the importance of building integrated campaigns around content distribution and events to nail the preparation, execution and follow-up.
Startups. Stephen served as an editor and product leader inside an early-stage startup as he built, launched, and operated The Current a B2B media platform for ecommerce professionals. He founded and produced the daily curated newsletter Baltimorning, and served as founding managing editor of NOLA Defender, a digital daily covering New Orleans news, arts, and culture. Through this experience, he learned how to build from the ground up, and internalized the bias toward action and shipping product that defines early-stage companies.
Journalism. Stephen had a front row seat to the 2010s-era growth of the cyber and national security entrepreneurial ecosystem in the National Capital Region as an editor and reporter the tech news network. He served as a reporter in varying capacities at The New York Times, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Rio Grande Sun of Española, New Mexico, and The Patriot Ledger of Quincy, Mass. Through this experience, he honed a superpower to deliver high-quality content at a high volume and velocity, and developed a knack for communicating dense concepts in terms that make sense to all.
With a give-first mindset, he’s a big believer in the idea that the way we show up for each other is a critical predictor of success. Stephen’s current community projects include:
Defense Tech DC. We co-organize a monthly meetup for the national security innovation community, bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, government leaders, and policymakers. No sponsors, no pitches, no asks, just community.
Station DC. Intake Media is a founding member of Station DC. We’re proud to join frontier-tech founders, investors, government leaders, regulators, and philanthropists in the mission to unite and align frontier innovators and policymakers to tackle America’s toughest challenges.
Technical.ly. The local news network was the longtime journalistic home for Intake Media Founder Stephen Babcock. Today, Babcock continues to actively contribute articles, attend events, and engage in acts of journalism thinking with the Technical.ly team.
It’s Not Just Me.
There’s power in entrepreneurs working together. Intake Media is a willing collaborator with operators who run independent marketing and creative service operations. By partnering with professionals who have complementary skills in design, PR, and marketing execution, we believe we can accelerate delivery, and dazzle clients. Want to partner? Let’s talk.
