COMMUNITYx

COMMUNITYx is a social media platform designed to connect activists and facilitate collective action on various social and political causes. The company was founded in Los Angeles in 2018 by Chloe Cheyenne, with Kourtni Marshall later joining as a co-founder and CTO. Cheyenne, a graduate of Howard University and a former employee at Google, was motivated to create the platform by her family's personal experience with police misconduct. In 1989, her father was severely injured in a wrongful police raid, a traumatic event that fueled her passion for social justice and led to the creation of COMMUNITYx.

The app serves as a digital hub for changemakers, allowing them to create profiles based on causes they support, such as racial justice, women's rights, and climate change. It bridges the gap between online discussion and real-world action by providing a suite of tools that includes petitions, event organization, and fundraisers. This functionality aims to solve the fragmentation that activists often experience on traditional social media platforms, where organizing can be difficult. By focusing on shared passions, the platform's proprietary algorithm connects like-minded individuals and organizations to scale their impact.

The company operates on a business model that also extends to corporate and philanthropic partners. These organizations can use the platform to build digital advocacy campaigns, accelerate mobilization efforts, and generate impact analysis reports for their target audiences. COMMUNITYx is a Techstars portfolio company and has secured $2 million in a seed funding round led by Fearless Fund, with participation from Goodwater Capital, and notable angel investors such as Pharrell Williams and Baron Davis.

Keywords: social activism, digital activism, community organizing, social network, mobilization platform, collective action, petitions, social justice, advocacy campaigns, cause-based community