Announcing our 2023 Accelerator Companies 📣

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With a sharp eye toward 2024, Higher Ground Labs is proud to introduce you to eight promising startups pushing political tech to new heights.

Our sixth accelerator cohort joins us from Atlanta to Arkansas to New York. They have a breadth and depth of experience — in roles including presidential campaign strategists, digital media experts, and AI engineers — from organizations like the DNC, the US Army, and Twitter.

These companies are building products focused on empowering donors through innovative fundraising tactics, supporting organizers through seamless data integrations, and reaching marginalized voters through trusted messengers. They are leveraging generative AI for rapid response, deploying relational organizing to unlock social capital, and transforming the relationship between elected representatives and the communities they serve.

We believe these founders are reinventing the role of technology in politics.

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Chorus AI helps win campaigns through human-centered software that turns every campaign staffer into a 10x digital organizer by increasing content production, keeping campaigns connected to the attention cycle and social graph, and optimizing creative for each member of a campaign audience.

Daisychain is a modern toolset that helps progressive organizations engage their audiences through personalized outreach, powerful workflows, and seamless integrations.

Election Bridge is a civic intelligence platform that effectively connects organizations with their members. They bring democracy closer to you by connecting members and supporters with relevant elected officials, resources, and projects.

GoodChange is a fundraising and banking powerhouse leveraging state-of-the-art financial technology to eliminate common fundraising obstacles and empower donors with the most flexible ways to donate.

Oath is a political advising platform that empowers Democratic donors to maximize their impact. They provide guidance and tools that identify the most critical races in need of support to eliminate wasteful spending and protect donors from spam.

Relentless is an organizing company with a mission to unlock political power. Their flagship product, Rally, is built to scale and measure relational organizing programs.

Rep'd, short for “Represented”, is the first on-demand Town Hall for communities and leaders. They provide a designated digital space for communities to ask questions and for leaders to respond personally with short video answers, accessible on any schedule. Their mission is to bridge the widening trust gap between communities and their leaders in both politics and local government.

Social Currant matches impact organizations, nonprofits, and purpose-driven organizations with creators on TikTok, Instagram, and Youtube to drive awareness, get out the vote, and increase impact. Their all-in-one platform helps organizations find mission-aligned organizations, build relationships with them, and automate the busy work of contracts, payments, and 1099s.

Outside of the accelerator, we are proud to have invested in Quiller through a partnership with Authentic. Quiller is an AI copilot that helps Democratic campaigns and allied organizations draft and deply high quality, effective fundraising content. It helps your team save precious time and energy so they can focus on running creative, data-driven digital programs.

Come meet these companies in Chicago during Netroots next week. Together with some of our portfolio companies, we are cohosting a Political Tech Community Happy Hour on July 12th – RSVP here. Hope to see you there!