Our motto?

At Civinc, we’re all about ‘making’ conversation. But not just any conversation. Our mission is to connect people with different viewpoints in meaningful exchanges. Because those conversations are the kind that offer a fresh perspective and help foster mutual understanding. But they’re also the kind that can be challenging to have or organize, whether at the workplace or in society at large.

In response, we launched ‘Waaromkiesjij.nl’ (‘why do you vote), a platform to ‘burst bubbles’ ahead of successive Dutch elections, matching voters with different political views in anonymous chat conversations.The platform has since its launch in 2017 connected hundreds of thousands of voters ‘across the aisle’, with research showing the concept has a strong depolarizing effect.

This experience convinced Leon, Ruben and Jochem in 2021 to let all else go and found Civinc (‘Civic Inclusion’) with the aim to further develop the method to deliver value for organizations. The result is an enterprise solution at the cutting edge of employee engagement and sentiment analysis, inspired by the below manifesto.