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Venturing to the Capital

Clinton and Trump talk a big game about changing the system, but this new cadre of startups is trying to disrupt politics, beginning with the 2016 presidential race

ANALYTICS

Priming the Data Pump

TIMSHEL

TARGET AUDIENCE Voters for Hillary Clinton

LEANING Democrat

Michael Slaby juiced Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential runs as one of his top campaign technology officers. In 2013, he founded this Chicago-based outfit to better connect big data and politics. Backed by Eric Schmidt, Timshel boasts two dozen clients, including NGOs like the U.N. Refugee Agency, and it has become an important engine powering the Clinton campaign’s high-tech voter platform for building community, fundraising, and measuring impact. “We

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