During a recent meeting with an executive from a Silicon Valley fintech company, Chris Stewart found himself fielding basic questions for an hour about how campaigns process donations.
They were familiar queries for Stewart, who runs Raise The Money, a fundraising platform for campaigns and causes. As he’s sought to build bridges in Silicon Valley, one challenge Stewart has faced is getting major online payment processors to create APIs for his platform to allow users to gather the payor data required by the FEC.