Open civic dialogue to new participants with a powerful mix of offline outreach and online engagemen
Location: United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $440K
Founded date: 2013
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | GoodCompan... | goodcompan... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 18.03.2015 | Seed | $100K | - |
| 03.10.2012 | - | $340K | - |
Mentions in press and media 12
| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.08.2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 8/1/15 | HP buys the Stackato business from ActiveState; Razer purchased OUYA; Viber scooped up NextPeer HP agreed to buy the Stackato business from ActiveState, a provider of enterprise development solutions. Terms of the deal were undisclosed. Sta... |
| 29.04.2015 | Ben Franklin Approves $2M for 10 Early Stage Companies | |
| 16.01.2015 | Civic-minded startups from FastFWD’s 2nd accelerator class pitch for city pilots | “For too long, social entrepreneurs haven’t had these guides,” First Round Capital partner Josh Kopelman said Thursday to FastFWD’s second graduating class. The social enterprise accelerator is a collaborative effort among the City of Phila... |
| 26.06.2013 | Knight Foundation awards $620k to OpenPlans for city planning engagement tool | The Knight Foundation awarded more than $3.2 million to eight winners in its Knight News Challenge: Open Government, including $620,000 to Plans in a Box, a city planning engagement tool from New York City-based civic app shop OpenPlans. Th... |
| 08.04.2013 | Code for America and Google form incubator to ‘turbocharge’ civic-minded startups | The Peace Corps is supposed to be “the toughest job you’ll ever love.” Today, Code for America and Google announced a new program to make the tech version of this a little easier. Code for America and Google for Entrepreneurs are partnering... |
| 08.04.2013 | Code for America and Google form incubator to ‘turbocharge’ civic-minded startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! The Peace Corps is supposed to be “the toughest j... |
| 31.01.2013 | City of Philadelphia seeks 2012 election feedback: submit online, via SMS or phone | Photo from Metro.us It’s the community meeting gone mobile. Mayor Michael Nutter has launched an investigation into the voting problems that were widely reported in Philly during last November’s presidential election, according to a release... |
| 21.01.2013 | Textizen, Abayima: Philly projects win $500K in Knight News Challenge: Mobile | Two Philadelphia projects won a total of $500,000 in the Knight News Challenge: Mobile, which announced $2.4 million in funding to eight winners last week. The Philly projects include: Textizen ($350,000), the Code for America-built text-ba... |
| 11.12.2012 | Code for America: impact of the 2012 Philly fellowship | The 2012 Philadelphia Code for America fellows: (left to right) Michelle Lee, Alex Yule and Liz Hunt. Philly’s second (and final, for now, at least) Code for America fellowship is now over. The three local fellows — Michelle Lee, Alex Yule ... |
| 15.10.2012 | ‘We’re the office of yes’: Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics aims to be public/private incubator for problem-solving | The Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics hopes to change the way city government solves problems. Here’s City Hall in 1930. Photo from phillyhistory.org There’s a new office in City Hall, but it doesn’t sound like the stodgy bureaucracy yo... |
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