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PPHC Bought the Map - Then It Kept the Street Names
The public-affairs roll-up has spent a decade buying specialist firms without sanding off their names. Its wager is that clients want one map of power - and advisers who still know every alley.
RXN’s Product Is the Crowd Behind the Argument
The Washington consultancy does not merely carry a message into the room. It recruits the people, data and local proof that make the message harder to dismiss.
The Lobbying Firm That Starts by Listening
In Washington, access is easy to advertise and hard to prove. Cogent Strategies built a different pitch: combine the lobbyist’s map, the reporter’s ear, and the researcher’s evidence - then listen before asking anyone to move.
Populix
Populix is an Indonesian technology-driven consumer research company that connects businesses, academics and government bodies with a verified panel of more than 700,000 respondents across Indonesia. Founded in 2018 by Cambridge graduates Timothy Astandu and Eileen Kamtawijoyo, it blends a mobile respondent app, a self-serve survey platform (PopSurvey) and AI tooling (the NeXa research assistant and synthetic respondents) to deliver market, policy and society insights faster and more affordably than traditional survey agencies. The Jakarta-based firm has raised about $14.2M to date, most recently a $4.3M Series B in 2025.