Pia Mancini is a democracy activist, open source sustainer, and co-founder & Chief Executive Officer at Open Collective, a platform that enables communities around the world to raise and spend funds in full transparency. Last year, collectives on her platform raised $37 million, effectively unlocking access to impact funds around the world. Mancini is also co-founder and Chair of Democracy Earth Foundation, a Y Combinator-backed California nonprofit dedicated to developing technology for democracy around the world. In the past, she worked in politics in Argentina, as an advisor to the Ministry of Government in Buenos Aires, and in various roles in several electoral campaigns. She co-founded the Net Party (Partido de la Red) and ran for elections in Buenos Aires, with a novel political party, one that had an open-source citizen decision-making platform at the center. In 2015, she was named a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and an Institute for the Future Fellow for Good. She is an Advisor to Reset.tech, Utopia Cities, New Civics, and the Billion Second Institute.
