Welcoming Our New Advisors
We all know it takes a village to raise a child – especially this year. But at HGL, we have also found it takes a village to build a company – and we have the best village possible. The Higher Ground Labs Advisory Board plays a critical role in our community. These leaders in technology, […]
How Tech Helped Democrats Win: By the Numbers
EVIDENCE-BASED ANALYSIS: EFFICACY OF TECHNOLOGY IN POLITICS Jerry Seinfeld once asked President Obama which sport most resembled politics. Without hesitation, President Obama said it was football: a full-contact, grinding game of inches. In our polarized electorate, Democrats must claw over inches. Incremental advantages that tip us over 50% in vote-share are invaluable. At Higher Ground […]
Announcing HGL’s 2021 Investment Thesis
At Higher Ground Labs, we invest in technology that helps progressives win. That has been our core mission since 2017, and it guides our work every day. To help fulfill that mission, we write an annual investment thesis to highlight specific areas of underinvestment and technological need in the progressive ecosystem. We are excited to […]
Introducing “Revenue Based Investing”
Written by Shomik Dutta and Teddy GoldHigher Ground Labs is embracing the future of sustainable impact investing. Equity investing in political tech is challenging and may require re-imagination. For most political tech endeavors, venture-scale returns are an unobtainable fantasy. We see hard ceilings on exit possibilities for most of our companies because there are not many acquirers and […]
The evolving startup landscape post-2020
Four weeks into 2021, we are seeing big, exciting changes in our portfolio. We anticipated many of these shifts following the 2020 cycle – the political industry is cyclical. There are predictable peaks every two years where our companies are called to the forefront of our space to perform at the highest level. These seasons […]
Meet Greenfly
Higher Ground Labs recently invested in a technology startup called Greenfly. Greenfly is an advocacy platform that enables campaigns to manage, exchange, and communicate media with supporters who then organically spread the campaign’s message on social media platforms. Using Greenfly, campaigns are able to track performance and identify what content is performing best with which […]