Higher Ground Labs is building an ecosystem for political technology to help progressives win.
Location: United States, Illinois, Chicago
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2017
Investment Type: Venture Capital; Accelerator
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
Mentions in press and media 12
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| 18.09.2024 | SandboxAQ Appoints Andrew McLaughlin as Chief Operating Officer | Former Googler, betaworks partner and SandboxAQ senior advisor will help the company expand its global operations and scale its AI solutions across industries SandboxAQ announced it has named veteran executive Andrew McLaughlin as its first... |
| 08.05.2024 | National Politics | Nervous about falling behind the GOP, Democrats are wrestling with how to use AI | That has led disinformation experts to issue increasingly dire warnings about the risks posed by AI’s ability to spread falsehoods that could suppress or mislead voters, or incite violence, whether in the form of robocalls, social media pos... |
| 06.01.2022 | Google, Meta, and Other Tech Giants Update Policies to Restrict Political Ads, Say ‘It’s Not Worth it’ | Thea Felicity, Tech Times 06 January 2022, 10:01 am (Photo : @dole777 / Unsplash) Meta and Google worked on their policies this year to prevent political ads from being out of control. But why the sudden decision? Why Many Platforms Want to... |
| 20.08.2020 | The Pandemic Has Hampered Get-Out-The-Vote Operations. Can Technology Pick Up the Slack? | Longtime Democratic political operative Shomik Dutta had planned to travel to Milwaukee, Wisconsin this week to attend the Democratic National Convention. Instead, like everyone else he is watching at home, in his case in Santa Monica. He'l... |
| 04.02.2020 | Mysterious startup Shadow under scrutiny after Iowa caucus meltdown | A mobile app that was created to manage voter data so Democrats could close the digital gap with President Trump has instead sown chaos during the Iowa caucuses. Organizers of the local meetings were supposed to use the app created by start... |
| 04.02.2020 | Mysterious startup Shadow under scrutiny after Iowa caucus meltdown | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. A mobile app that was created to manage voter data so Democrats could close the digital gap with President Trump has instead sown chaos... |
| 19.01.2020 | In Los Angeles, the Women’s March embraces technology to organize and inspire | The roughly 300,000 marchers that filled the streets of downtown Los Angeles for the third annual Women’s March received more than just an opportunity to hear from some of the state’s high powered politicians, they were also part of a new e... |
| 20.11.2019 | Tuesday Company acquires VoteWithMe as tech for politics looks to consolidate ahead of 2020 | Tuesday Company, the organizational toolkit for political advocacy groups and candidates, has taken another step to consolidate its position in the growing market for tech-enabled political outreach with the acquisition of the voting mobili... |
| 01.07.2019 | Higher Ground Labs is betting tech can help sway the 2020 elections for Democrats | When Shomik Dutta and Betsy Hoover first met in 2007, he was coordinating fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts for Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign and she was a deputy field director for the campaign. Over the next two electi... |
| 03.04.2018 | Higher Ground Labs backs 13 startups to help Democrats win in 2018 and beyond | With 2018 midterms around the corner, the Democrats are looking for their answer to Cambridge Analytica, the Robert Mercer-backed political data firm that either won the 2016 election or tricked everyone into believing that it did, dependin... |
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