# Etha

Bringing accountability and transparency to politics and news media through AI

## Elevator pitch
An Interactive news and social media, mitigating misinformation and political polarization through AI.

- Canonical URL: https://wefunder.com/etha.one
- Entity ID: wefunder:company:94934
- Last updated: 2026-06-11T23:52:38Z
- Generated at: 2026-06-12T03:32:51Z

## Quick facts
- Political Polarization is at a tipping point, and people are overwhelmed with information
- Gained 15K users in the past 4 months with a retention rate of 38%, with engagement time of 3 mins
- Provides a gamified interface to interact with what Politicians are saying and rank them accordingly
- Provides issue-by-issue breakdown of public opinion on current events based on demographics
- Etha provides a way to hold politicians accountable, getting deeper understanding of public opinion
- Backed by a passionate, hard-working team of 30 volunteers total, adding 10+ hours each week to Etha
- Etha solves for skewed data sets of polling organizations, campaign agencies, and news media houses
- AI creates a a safe environment for free speech and intellectual discourse, using 'wisdom of crowds'

## Active fundraises
- wefunder:fundraise:50766: 4(a)(6) open (USD)

## FAQ
1. **Downloaded the app. It's nonsense. You're asked to evaluate sound bites. It's ridiculous. I wouldn't invest a penny.**
   - Nathanael, we are still an early stage startup, and have a multitude of features to implement, which takes time. That is the reason for the need of investment, so our Dev team can work faster on these features. These sound bites are actually scraped from ALL over the the web, and synthesized to show the FIRST time one of these statements have even been mentioned on the web. This is important, because it puts a time stamp on stories, which does NOT exist in the current media. The media keeps r...
2. **You say you create accountability. How, exactly? How do you define accountability?**
   - Hello Rand, We define accountability in multiple ways. As we are a brand new startup, we have a lot of features on the way, but for right now, we have what is called a 'LeaderQ' score. This leaderQ score, takes all of the public's opinions in real time and gathers everyone's upvotes and downvotes, to provide an overall score. The up and down votes come from EACH statement a politicians makes in the media/public, and collects all these statements, and the public's opinions from these statement...

## Team
- Nicole J Ogloza (Chief Executive Officer)
- Aastik Saini (Chief Technology Officer)
- Dimitry Kushelevsky (Chief Operating Officer )
- Matheo Velasquez (Chief Revenue and Investment Cofounder)
- Ajay Shrivastava (Product and Technology Advisor)
- Ambarish Gupta (Business Strategy Advisor)

## Q&A
- Q: You say you create accountability. How, exactly? How do you define accountability?
  - A: Hello Rand, We define accountability in multiple ways. As we are a brand new startup, we have a lot of features on the way, but for right now, we have what is called a 'LeaderQ' score. This leaderQ score, takes all of the public's opinions in real time and gathers everyone's upvotes and downvotes, to provide an overall score. The up and down votes come from EACH statement a politicians makes in the media/public, and collects all these statements, and the public's opinions from these statements to make this overall score. Eventually, people will be able to see the trends of the politicians for what they say/do in the media and put it in a report card format. This hold politicians accountable, due to the pressure of the public will put on them. If our users see that their politician is not doing well or is doing well in the media, they will more than likely vote for or against them in the future with this report card features, showing a timeline of how well or how bad each politicians is doing (from a community level, all the way to a national or even global level). We actually have been speaking with Stacy Abrams, and Brain Kemp, to work on a direct escalation process, that gathers the general public's opinions on things that need to be changed in Atlanta Georgia's community, providing a dashboard to politicians to correctly make the right policy/law that they are working on. Politicians that lie, or do bad things in the media, are not going to be favorable in the eys of the public overtime, on the Etha app. They will have to change how they actually speak to the public, if they want to avoid the pressure of all of us voting for or against them in real time baaed on what they say or do. What we are building is a way for politicians and the general public to understand one another, and bridging the gap of the communications channels that are currently broken between us. Given that, stay tuned for our upcoming features on this portion. I hope this helps? These 'LeaderQ' scores will eventually look like 'stock-ticker' symbols in Wal Street Journal, except these ticker symbols will be of politicians (and other public figures) embedded into the 'breaking news' of how people are feeling about politicians at that time, instead of having to search for it across multiple sources. We bring all the opinions off the entire web in the future to show case the REAL opinions of everyone, and campaign hard for those politicians that keep their promises.
- Q: Downloaded the app. It's nonsense. You're asked to evaluate sound bites. It's ridiculous. I wouldn't invest a penny.
  - A: Nathanael, we are still an early stage startup, and have a multitude of features to implement, which takes time. That is the reason for the need of investment, so our Dev team can work faster on these features. These sound bites are actually scraped from ALL over the the web, and synthesized to show the FIRST time one of these statements have even been mentioned on the web. This is important, because it puts a time stamp on stories, which does NOT exist in the current media. The media keeps reusing old text, audio and video to cover 70-80% of stories out there. This is the cause of real misinformation, because nothing is time stamped on the web. I would be more than happy to share with you the newest features coming out on the app, and also exemplify the 'nonsense' you think that is behind our app. This is not just a social news media we are building here. We are building a whole SYSTEM underneath this, to cleanse the misinformation about politician topics but also have statements i which people can see in real time on how to hold political accountable. WE urge you to be kinder to starters that have tech deeper than meets the current eye, especially when you have not spoken with us. Big things and big ides take a lot of time to develop. Thank you for the feedback.