About Us

Upgrow is a Full-Stack Digital Marketing Agency for Brands Who are Ready to Scale

As a “full-stack digital marketing agency” we provide end-to-end solutions for generating qualified leads and sales online.

This starts with building a marketing strategy to understand your target customer, their challenges, and your solution. We then translate that into high-performance paid search, paid social, SEO, display, ad and landing page design – with web analytics to test and refine over time.

Our focus on data-driven performance marketing allows us to optimize all points of the marketing funnel. Our team has the experience and processes in place to drive results faster with more efficiency and less learning curve.

Growth+ROI is in our DNA

When Upgrow’s Founders, Danny Ng and Ryder Meehan, launched Upgrow in 2017, they understood why so many marketing campaigns fail.

Each having spent more than a decade managing digital marketing for brands like eBay, Samsung, and Fossil, they recognized the need for a true performance agency.

One that couldn’t not only execute but understood strategy and all the pieces that needed to come together to see breakout results.

It goes back to the dawn of time for marketing:

And so while there are countless marketers and agencies able to turn on a basic Google Ads campaign or write some SEO meta titles, the secret sauce was to take a step back and appreciate these timeless marketing basics. And then bring in all the components from not just expertly managing ads and SEO operations, but also creating ads that actually got noticed, setting up incredible landing pages that convert, and using robust analytics to attribute everything.

This combined experienced strategy with flawless execution, which is what we’ve set out to deliver for our clients.

Agency Awards

Traditional Approach

Keyword/Audience Research
Ad Copy Writing & Design
Choosing Existing Landing Page
Report & Optimize for Leads
Basic Keyword/Audience Expansion
Low-Touch Automate Bidding
Limited Channel Expansion Opportunities

Our Approach

Brand Discovery
Positioning/Differentiation
Dream Client Persona Creation
Problem/Solution Development
Plan Audience Stages and Offers
Landing Page Optimization/Creation
Keyword/Audience Research
Ad Copy Writing & Design
CRO and Landing Page Testing
Report & Optimize on for Qualified Leads/Opps
Advanced, Diverse Keyword/Audience Expansion
Strategic Manual Bidding & Rules-Based Automation Once Data Volume is Reliable
Comprehensive Expansion Opportunities

Our Story

2017 – Ryder’s company, Meehan Digital, and Danny Ng’s company, Adloha, begin working collaborating after the two met at a networking event in San Francisco.
2018 – The two formally merged their companies to create Upgrow and grew to four full-time staff by the end of the year. We earned Google Ads Premier Agency status.
2019 – Notable client projects included Lyft Business, SingleStore, InfluxData, and OpenSky. The agency expanded the scope of services to include landing page funnel creation, ad graphic design, and lead flow automation. Ryder spoke at the PRNews Conference in New York as a featured presenter for SEO.
2020 – Despite the challenges of the pandemic and economic shutdown, Upgrow focused on B2B tech lead generation and was able to continue to thrive. Our team reach fifteen full-time staff. Ryder created content for GreenFig’s Google Ads university-level courses that is still used by over dozen schools.
2021 – Danny opened our second office location in San Diego, CA and be began hiring local talent in SoCal. We earned LinkedIn Ads Partner status and became a certified HubSpot Partner.
2022 – Upgrow ranked again on the Inc. 5000 list with a three-year revenue growth of 299%.
2023 – Upgrow ranked again on the Inc. 5000 list again, cracking into the top 2,000. Our full-time team reached 29 talented marketers, designers, writers, and analysts. Our biggest client win of the year was Bitwarden.
2024 – We exceeded 200,000 conversions for clients and managed more than $30M in ad spend since our inception. Major client wins included DataStax, Percona, and Norwest Venture Partners.
2025 – Our increase specialization into performance marketing for B2B tech companies allowed us more notable client wins including Revver, EventMobi, and Espresso AI.