Causes

Causes.com is the world's largest online campaigning platform. We connect people who support a common cause and empower them to take action together. Causes members have raised over $48M for charities, collected 34M signatures for grassroots campaigns, and organized thousands of awareness campaigns. Since launching in 2007, Causes has helped over 186M people in 156 countries connect with their cause. Investors include Sean Parker, Founders Fund, the Case Foundation and NEA. Causes, [launched](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/24/project-agape-launches-via-facebook/) in May 2007, applies viral principles to altruism and social causes. The company was founded by Sean Parker and Joe Green and is designed to help passionate supporters of causes—charities, religions, political parties and candidates, etc.—organize online movements to raise awareness, advocate and fundraise. The company that delivers Causes is called Philotic, Inc., and is run day-to-day by President, Matt Mahan.

Paul Stich

COO and Director

7 past transactions

Emoticast

Seed Round in 2017
Emoticast Limited is a London-based company that has developed a platform for sharing music through the use of emojis. Incorporated in 2014, Emoticast allows users to share music GIFs with sound across various messaging platforms, including iMessage, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp. The service aims to enhance mobile chat by making it more engaging and entertaining through the integration of music and emojis.

NJOY

Private Equity Round in 2013
NJOY, Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of electronic cigarettes and vaping products, offering both rechargeable and non-rechargeable options. Established in 2006 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, the company has positioned itself as a pioneer in the vaping industry, aiming to provide adult smokers with alternatives to traditional combustible cigarettes. NJOY's product range includes non-rechargeable electronic cigarette packs, rechargeable starter kits complete with batteries and cartridge refills, disposable electronic cigarettes, and various accessories like chargers. The company markets its products through an extensive network, including online platforms and retail locations such as convenience stores, effectively reaching customers across all 50 states. With additional offices in New York City, NJOY continues to innovate within the vaping sector, contributing to its significant growth.

Tilt

Series A in 2013
Tilt. com is a free and simple way for individuals to collect money with a group, while enterprise tools like Tilt Pro allow businesses to host, brand, and customize their own crowdfunding experience. We all love doing things as a group. Like most experiences, it's not what you do – it's the people you do it with that really matters. So at Tilt, we’re excited to be building software that makes pooling resources with a group just a little bit easier. Since 2012, over 500,000 groups have used Tilt to turn their ideas, large and small, into reality. Our users have done a lot to make us proud, from thousands of tailgates, fantasy football leagues, and party buses, all the way to sending the Jamaican Bobsled Team to the Sochi Olympics, fundraising the construction of an entire elementary school in India, and bringing the Foo Fighters to perform in their home town. Tilt - make something happen!

Votizen

Acquisition in 2013
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

NationBuilder

Series A in 2012
NationBuilder is software for leaders. The company was founded in November 2009 by Jim Gilliam, in partnership with Co-Founders Jesse Haff and Lea Endres, and launched in April 2011. By the summer of 2012, the company had secured more than $14 million in Series A and Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and Omidyar Network, and added Ben Horowitz, Stacy Donohue, and Sean Parker to its board. Jim Gilliam became Executive chairman in fall of 2017 and welcomed Lea Endres to the role of CEO. NationBuilder is based in downtown Los Angeles with offices in New York, Washington DC, Vancouver, and London.

Votizen

Venture Round in 2012
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
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