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Usul
Usul is an AI platform that helps companies win government and defense contracts. Founded in 2024 and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch, it monitors trillions in annual government spending, scrapes DoD contracts, budgets, and Program Executive Offices, then matches companies to relevant opportunities and connects them with the right decision-makers. Often described as 'PitchBook for Government,' Usul aims to make an opaque, insider-driven procurement world navigable for any technology company.
Jarren Reid
Jarren Reid is the 21-year-old CEO and co-founder of Usul, a Y Combinator (S24) startup building an AI platform that helps companies find, pursue, and win government contracts. Usul monitors roughly $8 trillion in annual government spending across 60+ nations, matching companies to opportunities in defense, IT, energy, and healthcare. Reid worked for defense contractors including Palantir and MITRE while still young, dropped out of Stanford to build Usul after seeing how broken the acquisition process was, and has become one of the youngest CEOs working with the U.S. government today.