ai-for-government
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Zencity
Zencity is a govtech company that builds the leading platform for community trust, purpose-built for local government. It combines AI-driven social listening, statistically representative resident surveys, and communication tools to help cities, counties, and public safety agencies understand what residents think and turn that input into decisions, budgets, and policy. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York and Tel Aviv, Zencity works with more than 600 government agencies and has raised roughly $93M in venture funding.
Eyal Feder-Levy
Eyal Feder-Levy is the co-founder and CEO of Zencity, a govtech company that uses AI to turn millions of resident interactions into actionable insight for local governments. An urban planner by training who came up through nonprofit community work in South Tel Aviv, he started Zencity in 2015 to give cities a routine 'finger on the pulse' of their communities. Under his leadership the company has raised roughly $93M, works across six countries, and serves hundreds of government agencies reaching hundreds of millions of residents.
Binti
Binti is a San Francisco-based software company building modern workflow tools for the child welfare system. Its cloud platform helps social workers license foster and adoptive families, find kin, manage cases, coordinate service referrals, and meet federal reporting requirements. Used by more than 550 agencies across 36 states plus D.C. - covering roughly half of children in U.S. foster care - Binti aims to reduce paperwork so caseworkers can spend more time helping children find safe, stable, loving families.
Polimorphic
Polimorphic is a New York-based govtech company building AI-powered software for local and state governments. Its platform pairs a purpose-built Constituent Relationship Manager (CRM) with an AI chatbot, search, voice agents, and automated workflows so residents can get answers and start services 24/7 in 75+ languages - while understaffed agencies cut call volume, automate permitting and licensing, and recover thousands of staff hours. Founded by MIT alumni Parth Shah and Daniel Smith, the company raised an $18.6M Series A led by General Catalyst in 2025, bringing total funding to roughly $28M.
Parth Shah
Parth Shah is the co-founder and CEO of Polimorphic, the New York-based company building AI-powered constituent relationship management software for local governments. An MIT-trained electrical engineer and former NVIDIA deep learning engineer, Shah started out trying to build an 'ESPN for politics' and ended up rewiring how town halls answer phones, process permits, and serve residents in 75+ languages. In July 2025 Polimorphic raised an $18.6M Series A led by General Catalyst, bringing total funding to roughly $28M.