About ElectNext

Drawing on her various experiences in politics, as a first year MBA, Keya Dannenbaum founded ElectNext.com, a political preference engine that works like "eHarmony" for elections -  it matches you to the candidates running in your upcoming elections based on the issues you care most about. In six short months ElectNext has been selected to the Wharton Venture Initiation, GoodCompany Ventures and DreamIt Ventures accelerator programs; won the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 Conference, presented at TEDx Philly, and were GovFresh runners-up for the "best civic startup" of 2011; and they've been covered in TechCrunch, FastCompany and the Huffington Post among many others. Their advisors include Facebook's first product manager and the CEO of IDEO.

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Cofounder & CEO
ElectNext

Keya Dannenbaum studied and worked in politics as an undergraduate at Stanford and a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton; internationally in Bogota, Colombia as a Fulbright Scholar and in Mumbai, India; nationally for Hillary Clinton in 2008 and locally for several municipal candidates in New Haven, CT. She began an MBA as as part of the Wharton class of 2012 from which she is currently on leave. 

Presented February 9, 2012