Countable Corporation (aka Countable) is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company based in
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...
. The company was founded in 2013 by its CEO Bart Myers.
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Countable Corporation offers two platforms, Countable.com and Causes.com. Countable.com is an enterprise platform that helps corporations, non-profits, and political campaigns manage their communities with a series of engagement tools. Causes.com is the consumer facing arm of the company that also offers similar tools for consumers, smaller companies and non-profits.
After their merger with Causes in 2020, Countable relaunched as an enterprise platform that provides tools for community and engagement to corporations, non-profits, and political campaigns.
History
In 2013, Countable was launched by Bart Myers, with Canaan Partners as an investing partner.
Initially it was launched at Countable.us, a website and award-winning iOS
and Android
application designed to lower barriers to civic entry.
Countable enables users to track legislation and contact their local representatives in government. It also covers breaking news stories and invites users to weigh in on polls, petitions, and opinion questions about pressing political and social issues.
It was featured in a 2014
New York Times
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piece on political apps. It was also featured in
GQ,
Wired
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,
and
Tech Crunch
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In 2010, AOL acquired the company for approximat ...
.
Acquisition of Causes and Merger
In 2019, Countable acquired Causes and Brigade, a company owned by Sean Parker, which is a similar platform to countable.us and was the first application on
Facebook
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.
In 2020, Countable.us merged with Causes, and placed a redirect from Countable.us to Causes.com. The apps have also combined into one.
Relaunch of Countable.com
In 2020, Countable.com (previously known as ''Countable Pro'') relaunched. It represents the enterprise B2B arm of Countable and helps corporations, non-profits, and political campaigns manage their communities with a series of engagement tools.
Countable has worked with Starbucks,
Uber
Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber), based in San Francisco, provides mobility as a service, ride-hailing (allowing users to book a car and driver to transport them in a way similar to a taxi), food delivery ( Uber Eats and Postmates), pack ...
,
Levi's
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, Patagonia,
Bernie Sanders, the ''
Los Angeles Times
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'' and dozens of others.
In August 2020, Countable powered the virtual
Democratic National Convention
The Democratic National Convention (DNC) is a series of presidential nominating conventions held every four years since 1832 by the United States Democratic Party. They have been administered by the Democratic National Committee since the 1852 ...
.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20200805095651/https://www.demconvention.com/press-releases/democratic-national-convention-invites-americans-to-add-voices-to-2020-party-platform-process-democratic-national-committee-releases-further-details-on-platform-hearings/ archive 3 July 2022]
References
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External links
Countable.comCauses.com
Companies based in San Francisco