NGP VAN
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| Private | |
| Industry | Voter databases. IT Consulting, Software as a service, Web hosting service, Online fundraising, new media technology |
| Founder | Mark Sullivan, Nathaniel Pearlman |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C. Somerville, Massachusetts, United States |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Stuart Trevelyan (President & CEO) |
| Revenue |
 US$ 26.8m(2014)
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Number of employees
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163 (2014)
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| Divisions | Fundraising Compliance Union Organizing Voter Contact New Media |
| Website | www |
NGP VAN is a privately owned American company specializing in helping progressive campaigns and organizations leverage technology to meet their goals. In 2009, the company was the largest partisan provider of campaign compliance software, used by most Democratic members of Congress. The company's services are utilized by clients such as the Obama 2012 presidential campaign, the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign, the British Liberal Democrats, and the Liberal Party of Canada.
Its current president and CEO, Stuart Trevelyan, was a veteran of the 1992 Clinton-Gore War Room, providing research, analysis, and whip counts to the Clinton Administration as a member of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs.
NGP VAN was created in November 2010 by the merger of its two predecessor companies, NGP Software, founded in 1997 by Nathaniel Pearlman, who later served as chief technology officer for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, in his attic in Washington, D.C, and Voter Activation Network, founded in 2001 by Mark Sullivan, in his study in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In October 2014, NGP VAN launched their nonprofit arm, EveryAction.
VoteBuilder is one of the software systems created by NGP VAN. It is used by the Democratic Party and associated campaigns to track interaction with potential voters. Votebuilder is used as part of campaign voter persuasion and "get out the vote" operations. The introduction of such software has been called a revolution in campaigning as it allows for very detailed information to be stored, including "every door knock and phone call." The software was created in 2006 to bridge a perceived gap in microtargeting abilities between the Republican and Democratic parties. Along with the central voter database storing the voter information, there is also an app for smartphones and tablets that is intended to be used by canvassers.
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