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Civic Eagle provides software that helps orgs and companies discover and analyze legislation and regulations with no manual work. Founded by Damola Ogundipe and Yemi Adewunmi in 2015, Civic Eagle is backed by investors that include PurposeBuilt Ventures, Alumni Ventures Group, Techstars, Comcast, and Backstage Capital and is headquartered in Minneapolis. ....
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For nearly three years, Ogundipe had toiled to gain traction with his company Civic Eagle, which used a consumer-facing app to try to counter the political apathy Ogundipe and his cofounders, Yemi Adewunmi and Shawntera Hardy, found so prevalent in state and local matters.
“We wanted to create a world in which political information was easily accessible and would empower voters to take political action and become more civically engaged,” says Ogundipe, citing the August 2014 police shooting of a Black man named Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, which sparked widespread social unrest, as a driving force behind Civic Eagle’s launch. ....