New Media Ventures is a left-of-center organization that invests in newly established nonprofits that seek to use advocacy and social media to advance left-wing policies.
Democracy Alliance
Democracy Alliance is a collective of wealthy left-progressive donors that meet at semi-annual conferences for the purpose of providing a list of recommended recipients to major donors. New Media Ventures is on Democracy Alliance’s list; it is described as a group that is a network of investors who support media and tech companies that “disrupts politics.” 1
Clients
New Media Ventures lists its clients as the following: 2
- Avalanche Strategy
- Black Youth Project 100 Education Fund
- Center for Technology and Civic Life (Vote.org)
- CommunityConnect Labs
- Contest Every Race
- Count the Nation
- Distributed Media Lab
- Luz Collective
- Main Street One
- My RVPList by PF Data
- New/Mode
- Outvote Inc.
- PeoplesHub
- PredictWise
- Press On
- PRIN: The Progressive Influencer Network
- Prism
- Pulso
- Revolution English
- Stareable
- Sunrise Movement
- Supermajority
- Survey 160
- Swing Left + Flippable
- TAPinto.net
- The Juggernaut
- The Movement for Black Lives
- Tuesday Company
- Upsolve
- Verified Voting
- Wonder Media Network
References
- “Organizations Archive.” Democracy Alliance. Accessed January 25, 2021. http://democracyalliance.org/investments/.
- “Announcing NMV’s 2019 Finalists.” New Media Ventures. Accessed June 04, 2019. https://www.newmediaventures.org/tools_for_change/details/announcing-nmvs-2019-finalists.