| Acquired by | Causes |
| Date | 1/13 |
| Website | votizen.com |
| Blog | blog.votizen.com |
| @votizen | |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Phone | 415.690.8683 |
| info@votizen.com | |
| Employees | 8 |
| Founded | 3/09 |
| Description | Voter Network |
| TOTAL | $2.25M |
| FUNDING TOTAL | $2.25M |
| Venture Round, 9/10 Founders Fund 500 Startups Founder Collective Felicis Ventures Keith Rabois David Cowan Mark Goines SV Angel Steve Blank Shervin Pishevar Tom Shields Eric Ries Keith Rabois | $1.5M |
| Venture Round, 2/12 Sean Parker Ashton Kutcher Guy Oseary A-Grade Investments Troy Carter | $750k |
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
CNBC Power Lunch with Votizen CEO David Binetti
Added: 1/23/12
