Company type | Private |
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Industry | Voter databases. IT Consulting, Software as a service, Web hosting service, Online fundraising, new media technology |
Founder | Mark Sullivan, Nathaniel Pearlman |
Headquarters | |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Amanda Coulombe (President) |
Revenue | US$ 28.9m(2016)[1] |
Number of employees | 190 (2016)[1] |
Parent | EveryAction, Inc.[2] |
Divisions | Fundraising/Compliance Organizing Digital Non-Profits |
Website | ngpvan.com |
NGP VAN, Inc. is an American privately owned voter database and web hosting service provider used by the Democratic Party, Democratic campaigns, and other non-profit organizations authorized by the Democratic Party. The platform or service is used by political and social campaigns for fundraising, campaign finance compliance, field organizing, and digital organizing. NGP VAN, Inc. was formerly known as Voter Activation Network, Inc. and changed its name to NGP VAN, Inc. in January 2011. The company was founded in 2001 and is based in Washington, D.C., with an additional location in Somerville, Massachusetts.
In 2009, the company was the largest partisan provider of campaign compliance software, used by most Democratic members of Congress.[3] The company's services have been utilized by clients such as the Obama 2008 presidential campaign, the Obama 2012 presidential campaign,[4] the Hillary Rodham Clinton 2016 presidential campaign, the Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign, the British Liberal Democrats,[5] and the Liberal Party of Canada.