The community platform built for impact - combining a flexible engagement engine, AI agents, and expert support to help organizations turn scattered members into active networks.
Hustle is a San Francisco-based text and mobile messaging platform built for one-to-one conversations at scale. Founded in 2014, it lets organizations reach supporters, students, members and voters through peer-to-peer texting, broadcast SMS, a voice dialer and in-message video - with humans, not autodialers, pressing send. Widely used by political campaigns, nonprofits, higher-education fundraising teams and labor unions, Hustle has powered more than a billion messages and, since April 2026, is independent and employee-owned.
Jesse Hassinger is the CEO of Hustle, a San Francisco-based peer-to-peer text messaging platform used by nonprofits, political campaigns, labor unions, and universities to mobilize people at scale. With over eight years at Hustle progressing from Director of Support to Director of Product before taking the helm as CEO in early 2025, Hassinger brings a rare blend of grassroots political organizing experience and deep product intuition to leading one of the most widely adopted civic tech platforms in the country — one that has facilitated over one billion text conversations.

Tim Paris is the co-founder and CEO of Dataro, an AI-native fundraising intelligence platform helping nonprofits predict donor behavior and optimize campaigns. A former cognitive neuroscientist with a PhD from Western Sydney University, Tim pivoted from brain research to social impact by applying statistical machine learning to charitable fundraising. He co-founded Dataro in 2017 alongside high school friend David Lyndon (CTO) and later Chris Paver (COO). The company has grown to serve 300+ organizations worldwide - including World Central Kitchen, Amnesty International, and Stand Up To Cancer - and raised a $14.28M Series A led by Blueprint Equity in February 2026, bringing total funding to $16.78M.