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Finding Genius Podcast

Brendan Finucane, CEO at Ecanvasser - The #1 Voter Canvassing Solution

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Ecanvasser is digital infrastructure for political parties, candidates and issue groups. It connects grassroots membership both to head office and to voters. In this way it allows parties to understand what voters are thinking and act upon that. It works like Salesforce for politics, allowing users to target voters for outreach and have access to great analytics tools. Our motto is "Making democracy work" and through every conversation, our clients have with voters (12 million and counting) we are rebuilding trust between voters and politicians.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

0:07.0

Future Technologies Hoyts to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

0:13.0

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

0:17.0

Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,

0:21.0

3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

0:25.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Future Tech Podcast. I'm your host, Juliet Lamar.

0:32.2

And joining us today we have Brendan if you can he is the

0:36.3

CEO at the Connecta and E. Canister. Welcome Brendan. Thanks very much Juliet and glad to be on board.

0:44.0

We're so happy that you're here today and really interested in learning more about what you're doing

0:48.8

over at E-Camister and V- Connecta.

0:51.2

Could you go ahead and kick us off with a slight overview of your companies and what do you do?

0:56.0

Yeah, sure. So V Connecta, I started to V Connecta in 2012 and we build we're a software company and we built E Canvester.com so

1:08.5

E Canvester is a software platform for data-powered voter contact political campaigns.

1:15.0

So what we allow customers to do or political campaigns to do with target voters using

1:20.0

a CRM database.

1:22.0

There is email communication and filtering so you can better target folders.

1:27.9

And then we have mobile apps for when you're going, when campaigns are going door-to-door canvassing and for on-street polling.

1:34.3

Oh wow and how long have you been around?

1:37.7

So I would have found with the company in 2012 so we're around a few years now and then E-Kanszer would have launched in 2014.

1:47.0

We're obviously based on my unusual accent, we're based in Ireland, but we worked with a lot of US-based

1:57.6

campaign. So over the past two years, yes since 2016, we would have worked with over 2,000 political campaigns

2:06.5

and that would have been spread across 71 countries.

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