Company timeline

• 2017
• January
  

  VP of Business Development Jon Bratsis joins the team

• 2016
• September
  

  VP of People and Operations Lisa Hwang joins the team

• May
  

  VP of Worldwide Sales Cameron Orr joins the team

• 2015
• December
  

  Emily Schwartz becomes VP of Organizing

• October
  

  Ben Handzo becomes VP of Product

• July
  

  Founder and CEO Jim Gilliam's book, The Internet is My Religion, is published.

• March
  

  VP of European Business Development Toni Cowan-Brown joins the team

• February
  

  NationBuilder opens new headquarters in the second floor of the historic Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles

• 2014
• November

  Vancouver field office opens

• September

  The NationBuilder developer certification program launches

• April
  

  VP of Professional Services Gina Davis joins the team

• 2013

  In 2013, NationBuilder customers raised over $110 million dollars in donations and recruited more than 720,000 volunteers

• October

  NationBuilder Platform and API launches

• September
  

  VP of Strategy Hilary Doe joins the team; DC field office opens

• June

  NationBuilder receives $8 million in Series B funding from Omidyar Network and Andreessen Horowitz; Omidyar partner Todor Tashev joins the Board of Directors

• May

  Enterprise edition is launched

• 2012
• September

  The NationBuilder Elections Center is launched, providing free voter file downloads to qualified candidates and campaigns, including API for developers to create third party applications

• July

  1000 paying customers

• April
  

  The NationBuilder Architects certification program is launched for design partners

• March
  

  NationBuilder closes their Series A round of funding; Ben Horowitz and Sean Parker join the Board of Directors; NationBuilder moves into offices at Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles

• February
  

  President of NationBuilder Stories Lea Endres joins the team as co-founder

• 2011
• June
  

  Jim Gilliam gives his well known speech, “The Internet is My Religion”, at the Personal Democracy Forum

• May

  The company receives $500,000 in angel funding; Senior Developer Jacob Green join the team; NationBuilder begins offering free voter data to all subscribers

• April

  Public beta; 20 paying customers in the first month

• 2010
• February
  

  VP of Design Jesse Haff joins as
  co-founder

• October

  Private Beta with 5 customers

• 2009
• November
  

  NationBuilder is founded by CEO Jim Gilliam, self funded with $250,000; Alpha customer Reshma Saujani launches on the platform

• October

  Jim Gilliam writes the first line of code for what will become NationBuilder

• 2008
• October
  

  Jim Gilliam launches White House 2, an open source precursor to NationBuilder