Salsa Labs

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Salsa Labs
Formation2003
Type Private
Headquarters Bethesda, Maryland
Location
  • United States
Website www.salsalabs.com

Salsa Labs, Inc. is a Bethesda, Maryland-based software as a service (SaaS) company that provides donor management, digital marketing, online fundraising, online advocacy, and peer-to-peer fundraising tools to more than 3,000 nonprofit organizations in North America and around the world.

It was founded as a nonprofit, DemocracyInAction.org (DIA), in 2003. WiredForChange.com (founded in 2005), a sister company, catered to political and 501(c)6 organizations until WiredForChange.com and DemocracyInAction.org united efforts and intentions by establishing Salsa Labs in 2007.

On August 1, 2011, Salsa Labs received a $5 million Series A investment from the New Jersey-based investment firm, Edison Ventures. [1]

In 2013, Salsa Labs partnered with Lobbyit, a bipartisan lobbying firm, to roll out its new Tier 4 service, which combined Lobbyit's lobbying services with Salsa Labs’ advocacy platform. [2]

In May 2014, Salsa Labs received another $5 million from Edison and Maryland Venture Partners. [3] Later that year, in October 2014, Salsa Labs acquired social fundraising and events platform, Givezooks! [4] In November 2015, Salsa Labs merged with leading donor management platform, DonorPro. [5]

In April 2018, Salsa Labs was acquired by private equity firm Accel-KKR. [6]

In June 2021, Salsa Labs was acquired by EveryAction. [7] Three months later, Apax Partners acquired EveryAction from Insight Partners and Social Solutions from Vista Equity Partners, combining them with CyberGrants, a company it agreed to acquire in June from Waud Capital Partners. [8]

Salsa Labs is now Bonterra. EveryAction™ along with CyberGrants®, GiveGab®, Network for Good®, Salsa Labs®, and Social Solutions®—to fall under the Bonterra name.

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