At Best Startup California we track over 300,000 Californian startups and over 1,500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 98 Politics companies in California, United States. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Politics Companies & Startups (California, United States)
The Young Turks
The Young Turks provides an online news show covering politics, pop culture and lifestyle.
Founder(s): Cenk Uygur
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Blogging Platforms, News, Politics, Video, Video Streaming
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NationBuilder
NationBuilder is a community organizing software platform that helps people organize and build community-based relationships.
Founder(s): Jesse Haff, Jim Gilliam, Lea Endres
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: CMS, CRM, Email Marketing, Enterprise Software, Internet, Politics, SaaS, Software
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Brigade
Brigade wants to make civic engagement easy, effective, and enjoyable — and in so doing, restore political power back to the people.
Founder(s): James Windon, Jason Putorti, John Thrall, Matt Mahan, Miche Capone, Sean Parker
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Internet, Politics, Social Media
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Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media provides information and education to help kids and families thrive in a world of media and technology.
Founder(s): Jim Steyer, Lawrence Wilkinson, Linda Burch
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, EdTech, Education, Government, Non Profit, Politics, STEM Education
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Crowdpac
Crowdpac is a non-partisan political crowdfunding startup using technology and data to help citizens engage in politics.
Founder(s): Adam Bonica, Gisel Kordestani, Paul Hilder, Steve Hilton
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Crowdfunding, Politics
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Daily Kos
Daily Kos is a news and media company that specializes in the fields of communities, social media, news, politics, and the internet.
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Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Association, Communities, Internet, News, Politics, Social Media
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Rally
RallyPay and Rally.org leverage innovative data and payment tools to connect donors to causes and organizations with their clients
Founder(s): Brian Upton, Jonas Lamis, Tom Serres
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Direct Marketing, Direct Sales, Enterprise Software, Internet, Non Profit, Payments, Politics, Transaction Processing
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PeakMetrics
PeakMetrics extracts insights and creates actionable data from millions of unstructured, cross-channel media datasets in real-time.
Founder(s): Bobby Lincoln, Nick Loui
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Analytics, Business Intelligence, Digital Marketing, Machine Learning, Marketing, Marketing Automation, Natural Language Processing, Politics
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Govrn
Crowdfunding Political Tech Platform fixing campaign finance
Founder(s): Aaron Soskin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Blockchain, Internet, Politics
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Pundit
The social network built for politics.
Founder(s): Glenn Parham, Kenneth Lee, Rachel Wang, Vikram Jayanthi
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Apps, GovTech, Politics, Social Media
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Change Research
Change Research provides fast, affordable, and accurate technology-based polling to forward-thinking campaigns and causes.
Founder(s): Mike Greenfield, Pat Reilly
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Data Center, Market Research, Politics, Software
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CallTime.AI
CallTime.AI offers improved political fundraising through automation and artificial intelligence.
Founder(s): Adam Boaz Becker, Dustin Boss
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Politics, Software
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POPVOX
POPVOX verifies, aggregates, and simplifies communication with Congress on an open, trusted and nonpartisan common ground.
Founder(s): Joshua Tauberer, Marci Harris, Rachna Choudhry
Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Industries: Government, GovTech, Politics, Social Media
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Sidewire
Get news and analysis from insiders without the noise.
Founder(s): Andy Bromberg, Tucker Bounds
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Communities, Internet, Politics
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SameSide
SameSide is an online platform connecting the millions of events and gatherings that happen every day to a cause.
Founder(s): David Legacki, Nicole àBeckett
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Event Management, Government, Marketing, Politics, Social Impact, Ticketing
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Startup Genome
Startup Genome is a research and policy advisory organization for governments that helps accelerates the success of their startup ecosystem.
Founder(s): Jean-Francois Gauthier, Marc Penzel
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Communities, Government, GovTech, Politics
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Be Heard
Send official messages to government representatives as a VERIFIED constituent.
Founder(s): Aidan McCarty, Liam McCarty
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: CivicTech, Government, GovTech, Politics, Social Entrepreneurship
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Glia
Glia empowers people to shop with a purpose by connecting consumers with businesses based on shared social and political values.
Founder(s): Barry Klein, Chris Rappley, Tahlia Sutton
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Internet, Non Profit, Politics, Shopping
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Causes
Causes.com is an online campaigning platform for people who support a common cause.
Founder(s): Joe Green, Sean Parker
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Non Profit, Politics
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Crooked Media
Crooked Media is a place for political news, analysis, and to figure out how you can get involved.
Founder(s): Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Media and Entertainment, Politics
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Numero
Numero is a campaign financial software that manages payment processing, accounting, and compliance for their campaigns.
Founder(s): Brian Forde, Karan Jain, Susie Keeler
Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Financial Services, Politics, Software
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Votizen
Votizen is a consumer technology company that harnesses social networks to create a connected electorate of voters.
Founder(s): David Binetti, Jason Putorti, Matt Snider
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Law Enforcement, Politics, Social Media
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Impactive
We’re Impactive (formerly Outvote), a digital organizing hub for progressive campaigns and causes.
Founder(s): Nadeem Mazen, Naseem Makiya
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Non Profit, Politics, Social Impact
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GiveMini
GiveMini is an innovative new platform for progressive giving.
Founder(s): Joel Aguero
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Gift, Politics
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FWD.us
FWD.us is a bipartisan political organization dedicated to fixing the failed immigration & criminal justice systems.
Founder(s): Aditya Agarwal, Bill Gates, Chamath Palihapitiya, Drew Houston, Jeff Rothschild, Joe Green, John Doerr, Mark Zuckerberg, Matt Cohler, Pawan J. Mehra, Reid Hoffman, Ronald Conway, Ruchi Sanghvi, Sean Parker
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Communities, Government, Politics
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iSideWith
iSideWith is a non-partisan website.
Founder(s): Nick Boutelier, Taylor Peck
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Education, Politics
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Dialectica
Dialectica solves the “Wall O’ Text” problem in Internet discourse.
Founder(s): Jason Venner, Jennifer Georgevich, Joohn Choe
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Education, Information Technology, Internet of Things, Politics, SaaS, Software
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Organizer
Organizer is the leading community engagement platform, connecting people at the door, on the street, and over the phone.
Founder(s): Anthony Gooran, Bear Kittay, Okan Mermer, Ralph Garvin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Business Development, Consulting, Politics, SaaS, Software
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Table Topic Ventures
Filibuster is a social network for politics.
Founder(s): Derek Garnier, Jon Beck
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Internet, News, Politics, Social Network
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Openvote
A platform for pledging votes and learning about political issues.
Founder(s): Bobby Goodlatte, Sean McCann
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Blogging Platforms, Internet, Open Source, Politics
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Addicting Info
Addicting Info is an online resource that features community-generated political news and information.
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Location: Santa Rosa, California, United States
Industries: Communities, Internet, News, Politics, Publishing
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SCRB Strategies
SCRB Strategies specializes in complex communications challenges for political campaigns, companies, and organizations.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, Politics, Professional Services
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FORA.tv
FORA.tv contains videos of live events, lectures, interviews and debates from universities, public forums, think tanks and conferences.
Founder(s): Brian Gruber
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Events, Photography, Politics, Video, Video Streaming
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California YIMBY
California YIMBY is a community of neighbors who welcome more neighbors.
Founder(s): Nat Friedman, Zachary Rosen
Location: Sacramento, California, United States
Industries: Politics
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Best Apps Market
Best Apps Market is an app and game recommendation services platform enabling users to download the best free apps.
Founder(s): Anurag (Anu) Nigam
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Mobile, Politics, Search Engine
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Zinc Collective
Zinc Collective builds a family of programs that recruit, develop, and retain high-potential talents.
Founder(s):
Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
Industries: Politics
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Equaldex
Equaldex is a crowdsourced visual LGBT rights knowledge base.
Founder(s): Dan Leveille
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Crowdsourcing, Data Visualization, Politics
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LP Campaigns
LP Campaigns is a consulting firm with over 40 years of combined experience in creating winning strategies.
Founder(s): Amanda Payne, Crystal Michelle Litz
Location: West Hollywood, California, United States
Industries: Market Research, Politics, Public Relations
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Yabberz
Yabberz is a site dedicated to commentators. Commentators are highlighted and the best ones will be promoted.
Founder(s): Melissa Horton, Mike A Horton
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Communities, Information Technology, Internet, Non Profit, Politics, Sensor
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Berggruen Institute
The Berggruen Institute is dedicated to the design and implementation of new ideas of good governance.
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Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Politics
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SpeakEasy Digital
SpeakEasy Digital is affordable, fast and precisely targeted online advertising for Democratic and nonpartisan campaigns.
Founder(s): Bergen Kenny, Danielle Winterhalter, Eric Jaye
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Internet, Marketing, News, Politics, Video Advertising
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J&Z Strategies
J&Z Strategies is a specialized national political communications agency that creates cutting-edge, attention-getting ads.
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Location: Irvine, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Communications Infrastructure, Media and Entertainment, Politics, Public Relations, Web Design
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Beacon
Beacon builds tools to help people discover opportunities for impact in their own backyards and beyond.
Founder(s): Rose Jackson, Tom Chavez, Vivek Vaidya
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: CivicTech, Funding Platform, Mobile Apps, Politics, Software
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Civinomics
Civinomics is a community-based web platform that provides crowdsourced solutions to local problems and fostering engagement.
Founder(s): Manu Koenig, Robert Singleton
Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States
Industries: Crowdsourcing, GovTech, Politics, Software
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DigiDems
DigiDems recruits and teaches young digital organizers and promotes competitive house, senate, and coordinated campaigns.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Politics
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Nautilus Intelligence
Marketing
Founder(s): Richard Tanaka
Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Market Research, Marketing, Politics
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Ultimatum
Ultimatum empowers you to take control and create political and social change. Influence the causes you care about and make a difference.
Founder(s): Matthew McCabe, Steven Regester
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Crowdfunding, Non Profit, Politics, Social Media
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Evitarus
Evitarus delivers actionable strategic advice and information on public opinion research and policy to corporates and politicians.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Market Research, Politics
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Brave New Films
Brave New Films is a network for volunteer to champion social justice issues.
Founder(s): Jim Gilliam
Location: Culver City, California, United States
Industries: Non Profit, Politics, Video
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Stones’ Phones
Stones’ Phones is a leading Democratic consulting firm specializing in phone strategies for high‐profile campaigns and progressive causes.
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Location: Rancho Mirage, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, Mobile, Politics, Telecommunications
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LawMaker
LawMaker empowers Americans to propose new laws, build coalitions, and engage their elected officials to advocate for change.
Founder(s): Amit Thakkar
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: CivicTech, Crowdsourcing, Government, GovTech, Legal, Politics, Web Apps
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United Playaz
United Playaz is a violence prevention and youth development organization that has worked in San Francisco for 25 years.
Founder(s): Rudy Corpuz Jr.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Non Profit, Politics, Pollution Control
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Voter
Voter is an app that connects people with politicians who support them.
Founder(s): Hunter Scarborough, Suneil Nyamathi
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, Market Research, Politics
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Capitol Enquiry
Game Changing Products for Advocacy
Founder(s): Ruth Pritchard
Location: South Lake Tahoe, California, United States
Industries: Legal Tech, Politics, Publishing
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PurposeLab
PurposeLab is a digital innovation company who develops Mobile apps, Web platforms, Data and API driven apps.
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Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Politics
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Statecraft
Statecraft is a boutique law firm where they focus on government, political law, and constitutional rights.
Founder(s):
Location: Azusa, California, United States
Industries: Government, Law Enforcement, Politics
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YIMBY Action
YIMBY Action is a network of pro-housing activists fighting for more inclusive housing policies.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Non Profit, Politics
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Muslim Public Affairs Council
Muslim Public Affairs Council is a national American Muslim advocacy and public policy organization.
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Communities, Legal, Politics
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Politalk
The mobile app that aligns you with the best fit politicians.
Founder(s):
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Mobile, Politics, Social Media
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The Bipartisan Press
News Publishing Website
Founder(s):
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Internet, Media and Entertainment, News, Politics, Publishing
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Winner & Mandabach Campaigns
Winner & Mandabach Campaigns is a full-service ballot measure campaign and issue management firm.
Founder(s):
Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
Industries: Consulting, Politics, Public Relations
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Cheerboo
Cheerboo provides an easy way to gauge public sentiment on any topic.
Founder(s):
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Photography, Politics, Psychology, Restaurants, Social Media, Sports
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TopCorner
Decision and funding political platform
Founder(s): Aman Naimat
Location: Stanford, California, United States
Industries: Banking, Crowdfunding, E-Commerce, Internet, Law Enforcement, Politics
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OurBlook.com
OurBlook offers an online political blog that enables its users to read, comment, and share their opinions and views.
Founder(s): Paul Mongerson
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Blogging Platforms, Developer Tools, Politics
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Important, Not Important
Important, Not Important is a complimentary newsletter focused on the most important news: clean energy, medicine, biotech, space, and AI.
Founder(s): Quinn Emmett
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Biotechnology, Information Services, News, Politics, Social Entrepreneurship
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California League of Conservation Voters
California League of Conservation Voters is a lobbying and educational organization which focuses on environmental issues.
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Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Politics
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FreedomSpeaks
FREEDOMSPEAKS.COM is the only completely non-partisan political social network that allows its members to write letters to their publicly
Founder(s): Jason Kiesel, Kurt Daradics
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Politics
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RepSheet.com
Congressional Representative Lookup
Founder(s): Brad Flora, Milan Andric
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Apps, Local, News, Politics, Publishing, Software
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Civvy
Civvy is an app designed to help Americans be politically engaged and understand their place in civics.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Apps, CivicTech, Politics, Software
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Greenocracy
Greenocracy operates a political social networking forum that engages users to solve real time political problems.
Founder(s):
Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States
Industries: Blogging Platforms, Collaboration, Gamification, Internet, Politics, Social Media
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s0rce
s0rce is a web-based platform that offers curated articles regarding U.S. political issues and events over a long period of time.
Founder(s): Adrian Arizmendi, Alejandro Sanchez
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Government, Internet, Journalism, News, Politics
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1600 Pennsylvania – Republican Politics & Fundraising Platform
Politics. Fundraising. Republican. campaign. Social Media. citizens. Candidates. President. Elections.
Founder(s): Padma Priya Gopalan, Sanchayan Sinha
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Association, Hedge Funds, Politics, Social Media
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Phoneticall
PhonetiCall is a teleservices consulting firm that offers data collection for market research organizations.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Content Marketing, Lead Generation, Politics, Real Time
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International Human Press
An unbiased user generated news network
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: News, Politics
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The Lew Edwards Group
The Lew Edwards Group is a consulting agency that specializes in political consulting, coalition building and public agency services.
Founder(s):
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: Advice, Consulting, Politics
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California State Senate
California State Senate is the Senate branch for California.
Founder(s):
Location: Sacramento, California, United States
Industries: Association, Government, Politics
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Say Yay
Mobile App, SaaS, Civic Solutions
Founder(s): Bonnie Cook, Kerry McCracken, Rost Misyutin
Location: Oakland, California, United States
Industries: CivicTech, GovTech, Mobile Apps, Politics
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Caucusbox
Disruption at the intersection of Social Media, Politics, Data Science and AI
Founder(s): Andres Jaramillo, Kristopher Paschal
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Politics, Social Media
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ByThePeo.pl
ByThePeo.pl is an e-democracy platform that utilizes crowdsourcing to resolve issues and implement solutions.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Crowdsourcing, Politics
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Wonker
Wonker makes political news easier to understand. It’s a place for people like you and me to demystify trending political stories.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: News, Politics, Social Media, Social News
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Black San Diego
Black San Diego provides a platform for black-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, black professionals, and empowers our community.
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Location: San Diego, California, United States
Industries: Communities, Non Profit, Politics
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Global Opinion Force
Voting platform for public issues.
Founder(s): Carlos Santos Campos, Luis Enrique Castillo
Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
Industries: Law Enforcement, Politics
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RealScoop
RealScoop provides voice analysis technology.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Politics
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Skewz
Skewz is a place to read conservative and liberal stories.
Founder(s):
Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Industries: Politics
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ThumzApp
The Social Opinions Network for Millennials
Founder(s): Adnan Boz, Lily Boz, Ozgur Soner, Tuncay Buyukoglu
Location: San Jose, California, United States
Industries: Celebrity, Lifestyle, Media and Entertainment, Mobile, Mobile Apps, News, Politics, Social Media, Sports
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American-Chinese CEO Society
American-Chinese CEO Society is a non-profit organization that offers an interactive platform for U.S. and China CEOs.
Founder(s):
Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: Government, Non Profit, Politics
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Left Right Press
Left Right Press is a media company that focuses on political news.
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Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industries: News, Politics
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Freeman Public Affairs
Freeman Public Affairs consulting provides a campaign approach for political candidates, public interest groups & policy issue supporters.
Founder(s):
Location: Torrance, California, United States
Industries: Politics, Public Relations
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Yourpoliticalnewsgroup.com
Yourpoliticalnewsgroup.com is a company which helps people share and express their view on political developments.
Founder(s):
Location: Brentwood, California, United States
Industries: Politics, Public Relations
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Paschal Roth
Paschal Roth engages in political communications, media relations, digital media, non-profit and campaign strategy for ballot measures.
Founder(s):
Location: Sacramento, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Digital Media, Politics, Public Relations
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Voteraide
The civic engagement network – think a “LinkedIn for Politics”
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: News, Politics, Social Media
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BlueSwarm
BlueSwarm, a social fundraising platform, helps organizations leverage the existing social networks of their supporters to raise money.
Founder(s): Erik Nilsson
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industries: Non Profit, Politics, Social Media, Software
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Voteworthy
Experience the all-new political trivia game: Voteworthy.
Founder(s): Vikram Malhotra
Location: Carlsbad, California, United States
Industries: Politics
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National Report
National Report offers news on politics, media, entertainment, business, world, religion, health, sports, crime, science, and technology.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Politics, Publishing
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Initiativv
Initiativv is a grassroots-led movement devoted to the advancement of the initiative and referendum process.
Founder(s): Vincent Hofmeister
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Politics, Social Media
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GovHub
civic engagement website
Founder(s): Adam Becker
Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Industries: Mobile, Politics, Social Media
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Deane
Deane offers political reporting and treasury services.
Founder(s):
Location: Sacramento, California, United States
Industries: Accounting, Politics, Professional Services
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