Universe provides a comprehensive platform for local campaign organizers, integrating outreach tools such as phone banking, text messaging, and volunteer management into a single database. This solution addresses the challenges faced by underserved local organizers by streamlining campaign operations and enhancing community engagement without the need for app downloads or complex setups.
Funding
$3.1M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Product
Problem
Local campaign organizers often struggle with disparate outreach tools and fragmented data, leading to inefficiencies in volunteer coordination, voter contact, and overall campaign management. These challenges are amplified for underserved campaigns with limited resources and technical expertise.
Solution
Universe is a unified platform designed to streamline local campaign operations by integrating essential outreach tools and contact management features into a single, user-friendly system. The platform consolidates phone banking, text messaging, volunteer management, and voter data, eliminating the need for multiple applications and complex integrations. By centralizing these functions, Universe empowers organizers to improve community engagement, track progress in real-time, and optimize campaign strategies without requiring app downloads or extensive technical knowledge. The platform also offers marketing tools, including a website builder, email blasts, broadcast SMS, and petition creation, to manage brand and owned media.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes local political campaigns, ballot initiatives, non-profit organizations, political action committees, and labor unions seeking to enhance their outreach and engagement efforts.
Features
- Integrated phone banking with quick dialing, response marking, and voter contact history
- Text banking with customizable initial and follow-up messages
- Walk list generation for canvassing, including turf cutting and volunteer assignment
- Postcard address surfacing for personalized outreach
- Centralized voter data management with in-app list segmentation
- Real-time analytics dashboards with per-audience breakdowns and penetration statistics
- Supporter management with email, phone bank, and text blast capabilities
- Volunteer management with profiles, chat, tasks, and outreach clipboards
- Website builder with drag-and-drop functionality and campaign-ready templates
- Broadcast SMS for sending text blasts to subscribers
- Integrated petition forms for building support