Foreign money surrounds the firm behind the DNC’s voter-data platform
By DataRepublican | Commentary, DataRepublican’s Substack
Apax Partners, Neville Roy Singham, and the sovereign investors surrounding the DNC’s most important political database
Virtually every major Democratic campaign — presidential, Senate, House, state — accesses its voter data through one platform. NGP VAN has been the de facto sole vendor of the DNC voter file since 2004. Thirty-eight million donors and volunteers in the system. $10 billion in campaign contributions tracked in the 2022 cycle alone. 1.4 billion voter contact attempts. If you’ve ever knocked on a door for a Democrat, your data went into this system. No competing vendor holds a parallel DNC voter file contract.
The company that owns all of it is a London private equ...