Crowdpac
Type of site | Crowdfunding |
|---|---|
| Created by | Steve Hilton, Adam Bonica, Gisel Kordestani, Paul Hilder |
| Slogan(s) | Crowdpac is your platform for political action. |
| Alexa rank |
 148,843 (Global 06/2017) |
| Launched | 2014 |
| Current status | Online |
Crowdpac is a nonpartisan, for-profit website whose purpose is to help political outsiders raise money and run for office, and to track political data from across the United States. It was co-founded in 2014 by Steve Hilton, a former advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron,[1][2] along with Adam Bonica, Gisel Kordestani, and Paul Hilder. The website is based in San Francisco, and Hilton serves as its CEO.[3][4] One of the company's most successful crowdfunding campaigns was for Kathryn Allen, who raised three times as much money as her would-be challenger, Jason Chaffetz, before Chaffetz announced that he would not run for re-election.[2][5] The website also uses an algorithm built by researchers at Stanford University to track political candidates' sources of funding to predict how ideologically partisan they are.[6]
References
- ↑ Payne, Sebastian (3 September 2014). "Steve Hilton, a Brit out to disrupt American politics with Crowdpac". The Washington Post. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
- 1 2 Garcia, Eric (9 May 2017). "Crowdpac Helps Candidates Test the Waters". Roll Call. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
- ↑ Garofoli, Joe (31 May 2017). "Could this San Francisco tech CEO’s show pull Fox to the middle?". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
- ↑ "About". Crowdpac.com. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
- ↑ Johnson, Eric (19 April 2017). "To fix politics, you have to fix fundraising, Crowdpac CEO Steve Hilton says". Recode. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
- ↑ Moody, Chris (14 January 2015). "Rating 2016 candidates by donors busts conventional wisdom". CNN. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
