Polis was founded by Kendall Tucker to bring a door-to-door salesperson approach to political campaigns and the commercial market. The company provides software that identifies which doors to target, curates and sequences sales scripts, monitors field performance, and exposes an open API for integration with customers' marketing stacks. Polis has worked with clients including NRG Energy and Inspire Energy and ran outreach that reached 3 million voters for Beto O'Rourke's senatorial campaign in Texas. The founder says the company is leaning into the corporate space in response to declining effectiveness and rising costs of digital advertising. The article cites customer acquisition costs online as high as $300 per person for some Polis clients, which the company aims to reduce through in-person conversations. Financially, Polis recently raised $2.5 million in new financing to support its operations and expansion between the political and corporate markets. Polis builds a door-to-door sales platform that applies political-campaign analytics to commercial canvassing, giving reps optimized route maps and home-level data. The app identifies households that have been searching for relevant services and sends reps only when prospects are likely receptive. Polis is initially targeting industries such as home security, solar energy, telecommunications, and insurance. The product was field-tested in politics: seven campaigns in late 2015 using the app each won by more than 20%, and the company knocked on over three million doors in 2016. Polis has signed its first commercial customer (an undisclosed security company) and has closed a $1.3M seed round. Headquartered in Boston, the company plans a nationwide rollout into an estimated $1.2 billion door-to-door selling market.

Total raised

$4M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Feb 2019