Higher Ground Labs

Measure Studio is an engine designed to create a social media content strategy that is informed by data. Digital publishers, companies, agencies, and influencers may consolidate and analyze their social media data using the company's engine in order to create better content. The engine offers a safe environment for managing social media analytics.

OpenGrants is a grant search engine and marketplace of independent grant consultants. You can find grants on your own, or hire an expert to help you search, apply for, and manage your grant.

Greenfly is a software platform that automates the continuous flow of short-form digital media for sports organizations. Its software platform and mobile app empower sports and entertainment organizations to automate the collection, automated organization, and distribution of short-form videos and photos to anyone, organically growing audiences and increasing revenue.

Votus is an engagement and data analytics platform for civic representation. We collect public data on civic issues through internal and external inputs. We connect this data to voting districts and elected officials, which allows engagement among district neighbors to find consensus on issues and facilitate solution-oriented discussions with their elected officials.

GroundBase offers personalized contact tools for progressive campaigns.

Vocal Media is a new venture with a low-end disruption to traditional advertising media that is designed to target hard-to-reach, ethnic immigrant populations living in America. We will reach these target markets by utilizing a new form of advertising space created by the dead-air time in international phone calls. As immigrant populations continue to grow in America, and their buying power continues to increase, advertisers are urgently searching for new and innovative ways to effectively tap this lucrative customer base.

Measure Studio is an engine designed to create a social media content strategy that is informed by data. Digital publishers, companies, agencies, and influencers may consolidate and analyze their social media data using the company's engine in order to create better content. The engine offers a safe environment for managing social media analytics.

Goodstock & Co. engages in producing products to connect good people and celebrate good causes. The company was founded and managed by campaign professionals with a combined 60-years of political and advocacy experience.

Unpacking shapes healthy workplace cultures for individuals and teams through a gamified learning platform and professional network for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We founded one of the world’s largest and most successful online campaigning organizations, OpenMedia, and led campaigns for progressive advocacy organizations and politicians. Our founders saw the power of community-driven campaigns first-hand. Now, we’re putting the powerful tools used by the world’s leading campaigns into more campaigners’ pockets. New/Mode was born to help progressive organizations activate grassroots power and win more change.

Mobilize is a events management and volunteer recruitment platform that connects mission-driven organizations and supporters.The company's platform allows users to recruit volunteers, keep organizers up to date and share events with partners, enabling activists, progressive organizations and democratic campaigns to connect and win.

Wethos Virtual Studios™ make it easy to confidently team up and transform your one-person shop into a full-service studio.

Warchest is a collaborative campaign budgeting and analytics platform

Countable provides virtual community management for corporations, non-profits, and political campaigns. They use technology to communicate and human interconnectedness. They produce technology solutions that facilitate community engagement.

OpenField is a mobile first community organizing tool that lets organizations, political campaigns and parties, nonprofits, and advocacy organizations build power with anyone, anywhere. They offer support for multiple types of outreach including traditional canvassing, deep canvassing, blind knocking, and phone banking as well as voter registration. Their Intelligent Auto Turf Cutter turns whole cities into walkable turfs that don’t cross rivers or highways in just a few minutes while their natural language notes capture + analytics means that their customers can deep canvass and listen to their community at scale - turning thousands of individual responses into actionable insights. They are the only tool on the market to offer these features. OpenField is highly scalable - able to be used for everything from neighborhood actions to national campaigns. The tool is also easy to learn, with most users able to become proficient in how to use the product in just a few minutes, with no training. OpenField won Best Software as a Service at the 2021 Campaigns & Elections CampaignTech Awards. OpenField was founded by Arianna Trujillo-Wesler and Emily Del Beccaro. Arianna Trujillo-Wesler is the Co-Founder and CTO of OpenField. With nearly 20 years of experience to her credit, she is a nationally recognized expert in community organizing, political technology, and movement building. She has been the Deputy National Data Director for the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign and has worked for Wellstone Action, the AFL-CIO, the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, NationBuilder, and the Sierra Club among others before Co-Founding OpenField. Ari is a non-binary, Afro-Xicana and hails from the East Side of San Jose. Emily Del Beccaro is the Co-Founder of OpenField. A veteran of several political campaigns over the last 10 years, she is a national data expert and one of just a handful of people to have built a national voter file from scratch. She has been a key member of the data teams at both Target Smart, the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign, the 2012 Obama presidential campaign, and NationBuilder before Co-Founding OpenField. Emily is a diehard sports fan, especially for teams from her hometown, Seattle.

Torch provides a social media database with relevant social media intelligence for politics, advocacy, and philanthropy. They created custom algorithms based on language processing and sentiment analysis to deliver actionable insights that are unique to the civic sector.

Survey160 is a software product designed to conduct surveys for campaigns and issue advocacy organizations via text message conversation.

SpeakEasy Political democratizes the political process by making it cheaper and easier for campaigns to use top-of-the-line political tools to communicate with voters. Instead of hiring a consultant to write your message and produce custom art for every mailer and digital ad, SpeakEasy allows campaigns to combine pre-built and poll-tested templates with their own photography and text to produce their own direct mail and digital ads. Because we cut out the middlemen, you can reach more voters cheaper and faster than ever before. SpeakEasy was created by a group of political consultants who know the industry inside and out and who recognized an unfortunate truth: large numbers of candidates and causes were being shut out of the democratic process because they were unable to pay the high prices required to get their message out. SpeakEasy democratizes the campaign process to put you in control of your messaging, targeting, and delivery.

We provide rapid, comprehensive insights into public opinion to help our clients activate and grow their audience. Our subscription-based dashboard - powered by continuous streams of attitudinal and behavioral data tracking all Americans - seamlessly integrates custom data, and algorithmically curates relevant insights for every step of an advertising/marketing campaign by demographic, or even for select individuals, attracting $250K in revenue last year from progressive campaigns, advocacy orgs and highly visible media partners. .

Outfox AI is the designer of an advertising optimization tool that is intended to help digital teams and advertising agencies improve the performance of online and social ads. They provide powerful outreach and data tools in easy-to-use self-service software that, among other things, enables users to raise funds and reach and mobilize their donors and voters across digital platforms.

Gatheround is a team bonding and community engagement platform for people-focused organizations seeking to build relationships and strengthen teams in an era of disconnection and distraction. We make it simple and effortless to bring people together online in a way that’s both wildly fun and deeply meaningful.

At Human Agency, they are giving the power of digital advertising to the people. their job is to ensure that anyone has the tools they need to make their voice heard online. they are a team of technologists, nonprofit leaders, and entrepreneurs driven by purpose and committed to the free exercise of their human agency.

CallTime.AI is a brand new political technology startup, dedicated to making the call time process more effective and less painful. For most campaigns, telephone fundraising is their top source of income and the largest use of candidate time. We believe that such an important priority deserves to be optimized with data and sped up with automation.

Voter Protection Partners helps campaigns track, analyze, and respond to voting rights incidents so every vote earned is a vote counted. VPP is an ongoing, full-service voter protection organization dedicated to elevating, professionalizing and institutionalizing voter protection work for campaigns. Campaigns spend many millions of dollars persuading voters and getting them to the front door of their polling places, but precious little on the “voter’s last mile” to ensure that they successfully vote. We provide extensive voter protection experience and institutional knowledge to advise parties and campaigns on program design, Election Day operations, and rapid response; operate and continuously improve secure tools for managing voter protection teams and for tracking, analyzing and responding to voting incidents and election administration problems; and define, normalize, maintain, and make available the collected data for analysis across and between campaign cycles.

FactSquared builds next generation, AI powered, research platforms for media, politics, and finance that let you know what others don’t. Our flagship platform, called Factbase, focuses on automating high accuracy/low cost AI driven analytics. By building models unique for each subject we are able to analyze video, audio, and text faster and more effectively than ever before. We also power factba.se as a public service to promote transparency in politics.

We founded one of the world’s largest and most successful online campaigning organizations, OpenMedia, and led campaigns for progressive advocacy organizations and politicians. Our founders saw the power of community-driven campaigns first-hand. Now, we’re putting the powerful tools used by the world’s leading campaigns into more campaigners’ pockets. New/Mode was born to help progressive organizations activate grassroots power and win more change.

SameSide is an online platform connecting the millions of events and gatherings that happen every day to a cause. Organizers come to SameSide to create events and align them with an organization to raise money and awareness within in their community about the issues they care about. We support the millions of doers who say "I'm hosting this class anyway, I might as well make it in support of something I care about."

Swayable is a creative testing platform that marketers use to measure how their ads perform before they launch them, using their powerful Persuasion Intelligence data platform.

5 Calls allows citizens to call the government that is supposed to represent them.

Grow Progress helps social change advocates to persuade more people with behavioral science.

Swayable is a creative testing platform that marketers use to measure how their ads perform before they launch them, using their powerful Persuasion Intelligence data platform.

Qriously replaces ads with surveys on smartphones to conduct real-time research anywhere in the world.

VoterCircle is a powerful and easy to use friend-to-friend outreach platform that benefits any size campaign or organization. VoterCircle combines the efficiency of email with the personal touch of phone and door to increase campaign's name identification. VoterCircle’s friend-to-friend canvassing platform enables your volunteers to digitally canvass their friends from the comfort of their own home on their own schedule.

Hope explains the headlines and tells you the smartest actions you can take to actually make a difference.

Hustle is a peer-to-peer text messaging platform that provides organizations across the country with an affordable, efficient, and effective tool to reach their target supporters and customers. By facilitating two-way conversations, Hustle’s users can maintain genuine, personal dialogues with hundreds, thousands, and even millions of people.

Our award-winning technology makes it easy for progressive, Democratic, or left-of-center candidates to run for office and win!

The Tuesday Company builds software that helps organizations strengthen relationships with supporters to drive community, activism, and fundraising.

Mobilize is a events management and volunteer recruitment platform that connects mission-driven organizations and supporters.The company's platform allows users to recruit volunteers, keep organizers up to date and share events with partners, enabling activists, progressive organizations and democratic campaigns to connect and win.

Field Day's nationwide marketplace of local marketers enables enterprise brands to activate their story to drive local demand for their products and services. With over 10,000 ambassadors, Field Day offers the highest average hourly wage for side hustlers looking to activate local programs for their favorite national brands. Customers include Panera Bread, Square, Blaze Pizza, US Cellular and 50+ national brands.

BallotReady is an online, non-partisan voter guide for local elections. It provides easy-to-digest information about all candidates and referendums on a user’s ballot. BallotReady was launched in January 2015.