NGP VAN announced it has formed its first dedicated API and Data Products Team and committed a seven-figure investment to modernize and expand the company’s APIs, a move aimed at strengthening the integration infrastructure used across the progressive technology ecosystem.
The company said the new team will focus exclusively on improving the systems that power third-party connections to NGP VAN, responding to growing reliance from customers and integration partners that use the APIs to support organizing workflows and campaign operations.
NGP VAN described the roles on the team as union positions and said the investment is intended to accelerate delivery and improve scalability for campaigns and advocacy organizations. The company also positioned the effort as part of a broader push to support not only direct users—such as campaigns, parties, PACs, and progressive organizations—but also the external tools they depend on, including mobile messaging, digital advertising, analytics, and insights platforms.
The new group is also tied to NGP VAN’s Partner Program, with the company saying the increased focus on API development is designed to deepen collaboration with partners and improve the reliability of integrations.
NGP VAN noted it expanded API rate limits for customers and vendors in 2024 to speed up data synchronization while maintaining platform integrity. More recently, the company said it shipped updates to its Membership API endpoints, including enhancements to bulk import functionality, expanded support for custom fields, the ability to rename custom field values via a PUT method, and added exposure of an “Apply Contributions” mapping type.
As part of the buildout, NGP VAN said it plans to hire three software engineers to form the core of the API and Data Products Team, supported by third-party modernization partners and the broader NGP VAN engineering organization.
KEY QUOTE:
“Our customers and partners have been clear: NGP VAN’s APIs are mission critical to modern organizing. This investment reflects our responsibility to the ecosystem: focused teams, faster shipping, and an API engineered to scale with the future of campaigns and advocacy.”
Chelsea Peterson Thompson, General Manager, NGP VAN
