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Causes is the world's largest online campaigning platform, founded in May 2007 by Sean Parker and Joe Green. The platform connects individuals who share common interests and empowers them to take collective action on various causes, including charities, political movements, and social issues. Through its services, Causes has facilitated the raising of over $48 million for charitable organizations and garnered 34 million signatures for grassroots initiatives, impacting more than 186 million people across 156 countries. The platform simplifies the process of engaging with lawmakers, allowing users to express their opinions on legislation and mobilize support through various means, including protests and awareness campaigns. Managed by Philotic, Inc., with President Matt Mahan overseeing daily operations, Causes aims to foster community engagement and facilitate informed activism on issues of national, local, and personal significance.

Votizen is a consumer technology company that harnesses social networks to create a connected electorate of voters. Votizen provides a new way to focus, measure, and exercise political influence by bringing voters together. As opposed to existing tools that help elected officials campaign, Votizen empowers its users to leverage their own networks to self-organize in voting blocks and advance their causes and interests, redefining the political system with the voter at the center -- not the politician. The company has engineered an entirely new database of voting record rolls across the United States, taking public voting information and normalizing that data to the district level. Then, by mapping those rolls to a user's online identity (through Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google+), Votizen is able to create the first graphical representation of a voter's network, across states, political parties, and frequency of voting. Votizen was cofounded by David Binetti, Jason Putorti, and Matt Snider. The company is nonpartisan, for-profit, venture-backed, and based in Mountain View, CA: www.votizen.com