Yesterday, New Media Ventures announced the 13 organizations that it has selected to share $1.2 million in seed funding for the seventh round of its Innovation Fund. These thirteen startups made it through a very competitive pool of nearly 740 applicants—a 50% jump over the number who applied in 2017–and...
On January 2, the mapping platform Mapzen announced that they were shutting down. CEO Randy Meech has declined to explain why, but we reached out to former Mapzen senior software engineer Dan Phiffer to reflect on his time with the organization in the following exit interview. In case anyone is...
The Sacramento City Council and Mayor Kevin Johnson will invest millions to grow the local tech ecosystem and support entrepreneurs.
Maybe you signed the petition, but now "Molly at Uber" won't stop robocalling.
Whichever sector of civic tech you're taking on, be it transportation, elections, payments, or procurement, chances are the people who have been doing that work for decades are already convening annually somewhere. That somewhere might not be in San Francisco.