Celebrating the Acquisition of Mobilize
EveryAction Acquires Mobilize Today, EveryAction announced its acquisition of a Higher Ground Labs portfolio company, Mobilize. This combination represents one of the larger deals in political and nonprofit tech and ensures the permanent and robust presence of one of the progressive movement’s most impactful technological innovations. Mobilize and HGL have been in lock step since […]
Lesson from Iowa: We Can’t Turn Our Backs on Political Technology
The worst outcome from IA would be a full scale rejection of technology in politics. But there is a lot to learn. We wrote a little bit about our takeaways and Campaigns and Elections picked it up. Read more here.
HGL Relational Follow-On Investment
Background Since early 2017, Higher Ground Labs has invested aggressively behind the promise of relational organizing tech startups. In 2018, the Analyst Institute study showed that political messages from friends dramatically outperform any and all other modes of political communication – furthering our conviction in relational contact as a core campaign tactic. Despite this incontrovertible […]
Higher Ground Labs + NewFounders are joining forces!
Today, we are excited to announce that NewFounders events and resources will now exist within the HGL family.
Former Governor Deval Patrick joins Higher Ground Labs Advisory Board as Honorary Member
Higher Ground Labs today announced that Former Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Deval Patrick will become an Honorary Member of its Advisory Board.
Announcing our 2019 cohort
Higher Ground Labs started as an experiment. Progressive politics was not innovating quickly enough to keep pace with broader technological change and shifts in American attention. Presidential campaigns historically served as the only hubs for innovation, and their episodic reality prevented new technologies from having lasting impacts. If progressives were to realize an enduring electoral […]