Jonathan Zucker
Political startups
Political startups
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Zucker is involved in two current organizations:
* Democracy Engine — which he founded in 2009 and serves as CEO—is a nonpartisan online donation processing platform to handle fundraising for candidates at all level of US elections as well as political committees and nonprofits.
* It Starts Today —which he founded in 2017—is a partisan Democratic PAC that operates an online donation platform soliciting monthly donations equally divided between all Democrats running for Congress.

Past projects include:
* CrowdPAC — founded by Steve Hilton and for which he served as Strategist and Counsel — used data on political candidates to recommend them to users based on each user's interests. Crowdpac ceased operations in June 2019\.
* if.then.fund — co\-founded with [Joshua Tauberer](/wiki/Joshua_Tauberer "Joshua Tauberer") uses votes on legislation (and other congressional business) as the trigger for campaign contributions to re\-elect or oppose members of Congress.
* [Ruck.us](/wiki/Ruck.us "Ruck.us") — which he joined in 2013 as co\-Founder and COO—is a digital toolkit for down\-ballot political candidates, he left his role as COO in 2016\.
* Candi\-Date (founded by Zucker in 2011\) used nonprofit scorecards of incumbents to recommend candidates based on user interest.
* [ActBlue](/wiki/ActBlue "ActBlue") — which he joined in March 2005 as the first employee, going on to serve as the first COO and second CEO (Executive Director) before leaving at end of 2008\.


What is ActBlue and what role did Zucker have in it?