Livepetitions.org

What Livepetitions.org does

Livepetitions.org operates a web-based petition platform that allows individuals to create, browse, and sign petitions organized across ten cause categories: Environment, Human Rights, Animals, Health, Economic Justice, Politics, Local Issues, Women's Rights, Family, and Legal Justice. The platform is provided as a self-service product accessible at livepetitions.org, with localized experiences for Italy, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Spain. Authentication is offered via email registration and Facebook single-sign-on, and the site is protected by Google reCAPTCHA. The founder and CEO is Marco Calzolari.

The underlying technology is a relatively standard WordPress-based web application (themes and uploads reference a WordPress directory structure), without disclosed proprietary features, SDKs, APIs, or mobile applications. There is no evidence of AI/ML capabilities, data partnerships, or third-party integrations beyond Facebook OAuth and reCAPTCHA. The platform's primary technical product is petition creation, browsable topic categories, real-time supporter counts, and signature capture.

The business model is donation-funded and entirely free to end users. The sole disclosed revenue stream is voluntary contributions solicited through a 'Sostienici!' (Support Us) page; no pricing tiers, subscriptions, advertising, or transaction fees exist. Distribution is self-serve and community-led: petition creators drive awareness organically, the platform employs no paid marketing, and social media presence is limited to placeholder links for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Headcount is stated at 1-10, no institutional investors or parent entity are disclosed, and no funding rounds have been raised. Customer engagement is thin, with only 1,116 active participants reported on the homepage.

Name

Livepetitions.org

Legal name

livepetitions.org

Website

https://livepetitions.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Livepetitions.org is a web-based, donation-funded petition platform that lets individuals across Italy, the UK, France, Germany, and Spain create, browse, and sign petitions across ten social and political cause categories.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civic Engagement & Online Petition Platform

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Rights, Privacy & Free Expression Advocacy (BPAGAFAL)

Keywords

• Online petition platform
• Civic engagement platform
• Digital activism platform
• Petition creation tool
• Signature collection platform

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations: Platform accepts donations through 'Sostienici!' (Support us) section to fund operations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Livepetitions.org is a web-based petition platform that enables individual users to create, browse, and sign petitions across ten topical categories including environment, human rights, animals, health, economic justice, politics, local issues, women's rights, family, and legal justice. The platform provides free petition creation and signing tools to the general public, supports multi-language access (Italian, UK English, French, German, Spanish), and offers Facebook social login and email registration for user authentication.

Product overview

Livepetitions.org is a single, unified petition platform that allows users to create petitions, browse existing petitions, and support causes by signing. The platform organizes petitions into topic categories (Environment, Human Rights, Animals, Health, Economic Justice, Politics, Location, Women's Rights, Family, Legal Justice) and displays real-time supporter counts. Users can register via Facebook login or email and access the platform across multiple country versions (Italy, UK, France, Germany, Spain).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Livepetitions.org Platform A free web-based petition platform that enables individual users to create, browse, and sign petitions organized across ten topical categories (Environment, Human Rights, Animals, Health, Economic Justice, Politics, Local Issues, Women's Rights, Family, Legal Justice). It supports multi-language access (Italian, UK English, French, German, Spanish), Facebook social login, and email registration, and is offered to the general public at no cost with operations funded by voluntary donations.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• GoPetition: GoPetition is a long-standing independent petition hosting site offering free and premium tiers across many of the same cause categories as Livepetitions.org, competing for the same organic petition-creator audience.
• Avaaz: Avaaz is a global civic-activism platform that mobilizes millions of members to sign petitions, fund campaigns, and take action on human rights, environment, and animal welfare causes — directly overlapping with Livepetitions.org's cause taxonomy.
• SumOfUs: SumOfUs is a global consumer-activism organization that runs petitions targeting corporations on human rights, environment, and economic justice — overlapping directly with several of Livepetitions.org's cause categories (Human Rights, Environment, Economic Justice).
• Care2: Care2 is a petition and activism community for social and environmental causes, with cause categories (human rights, animal welfare, environment, women's rights) that closely mirror Livepetitions.org's category structure.
• Change.org: Change.org is the global leader in online petitions, allowing users to start and sign campaigns across virtually every cause category — the same core functionality as Livepetitions.org, but at massive scale with hundreds of millions of users.
• 38 Degrees: 38 Degrees is a UK-based people-powered campaigning organization that runs petitions and advocacy actions on social and political issues — directly comparable as a UK-market peer and a regional competitor in one of Livepetitions.org's priority geographies.
• MoveOn: MoveOn is a US-based progressive civic-action platform that runs petitions, campaigns, and grassroots organizing — comparable business model (community-led petition platform) though operating in a different primary market.
• iPetitions: iPetitions is a UK-based online petition platform that lets users start and sign campaigns on social and political issues — directly competing with Livepetitions.org in the UK and offering a similar free, self-serve experience.

Regional players

• Petitions24: Petitions24 is a European-focused petition aggregator that surfaces campaigns across multiple countries, comparable in geographic focus to Livepetitions.org's multi-country European scope, though it operates as an aggregator rather than a hosted petition platform.

Others

• Causevox (now Funraise): Funraise (formerly CauseVox) provides online advocacy and petition tools for nonprofits, with cause-aligned campaign functionality (petitions, action pages, donation flows) that overlaps with Livepetitions.org's petition-plus-donation model on the nonprofit-customer side.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Firmiamo
• Facebookfacebook.com/FirmiamoIT
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/livepetitions-org

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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