POPVOX.com is a transformative advocacy platform that meshes legislative data with personal stories and public sentiment.
General company ifno:
Year of founded: 2010
Zip Code: 94002
Employees: 1-10
In sector: Governance
Revenue Sources: Data analysis for clients, Database licensing
Social Impact:
Description:
POPVOX is a civic engagement platform that meshes real-time legislative data with users’ personal stories and sentiment. POPVOX curates and delivers public input to government in a format tailored to actionable policy decisions.
POPVOX is organized as a “civic startup”, a for-profit corporation with a dual mission to scale and return value to investors while empowering individuals and making government more accountable.
POPVOX Pro provides a collection of grassroots advocacy tools for organizations of any size to mount a significant legislative campaign, harnessing the power of targeted grassroots action. Advocacy organizations, trade associations, and corporations pay a monthly fee for POPVOX widgets, enabling networks to write Congress through embedded POPVOX tools, displaying dynamic legislative content.
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In 2011, POPVOX won the social media category of the 2011 SxSW Accelerator competition and was featured in the documentary, Ctrl+Alt+Compete. Its founders have been recognized in Fast Companys Top 100 Most Creative People in Business (2012), Tribeca Film Festival Awards for Creative Disruption by Harvard Professor Dr. Clayton Christensen (2012), DC’s Tech Titans by Washingtonian magazine (2013), and the 2013 legal “Fastcase 50.”