Christian Ferreira is the founder and CEO of Procurement Sciences AI, an AI-native platform built to help businesses find, win, and deliver government contracts. A former U.S. Marine Corps sergeant who deployed to Afghanistan before turning 21, he spent nearly a decade in government contracting - moving from full-stack engineer to senior solutions architect to director of business strategy - before founding the company in 2022 when generative AI matured. In November 2025 the company closed a $30 million Series B, bringing total funding to roughly $40 million, having grown to more than 300 organizations on its platform and enabled billions of dollars in customer contract wins.
Procurement Sciences is a Washington, D.C.-based company building Awarded AI, an AI-native platform that helps businesses find, win and deliver government contracts. Founded in 2022 by Marine Corps veteran and former contractor Christian Ferreira, the platform automates opportunity discovery, bid decisions, proposal drafting, compliance review and delivery across federal, state, local, education and international markets. After its May 2026 acquisition of market-intelligence platform HigherGov, the combined company serves more than 3,000 government contractors - including close to half of the industry Top 100 - and has contributed to over $100 billion in AI-assisted awarded contracts.
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 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.
GovDash is an AI-native platform that helps companies win and run U.S. government contracts. It pulls capture, proposal writing, contract management, and post-award delivery into one system of record, powered by an AI agent named Dash. Founded in 2022 and backed by Y Combinator, GovDash says its customers won more than $5 billion in government work in 2025, sometimes turning proposals around in as little as 24 hours.
Sean Doherty is the co-founder and CEO of GovDash, a New York-based AI platform that helps companies win and run U.S. government contracts. What started as a college friendship and a hangout-scheduling app turned into a Y Combinator (W22) company now serving nearly 200 contractors whose customers booked over $5B in awards in a single year. In January 2026 GovDash raised an oversubscribed $30M Series B, bringing total funding to roughly $40M, as Doherty pushes to automate the entire government-contracting lifecycle from opportunity discovery to post-award delivery.