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Riff City Sells Attention. Its Clients Spend It on Change.
A small San Francisco agency found a useful seam between publicity and public policy. Its best campaigns do not stop when the story lands - they give people a measurable next move.
HOTB Software Runs the Paperwork That Outlives the Program
Housing aid ends. The audit trail keeps going. HOTB sells the software and operational help that let public agencies and healthcare teams manage both the work and the evidence.
The Healthtech Accelerator That Teaches Startups to Survive the Public Sector
DigitalWell Ventures built an accelerator around the awkward bit of health innovation: getting a promising product through procurement, regulation and the raised eyebrows of real buyers.
The Dashcam That Wants to Give a City Eyes
NAYAN’s cameras ride buses, police vehicles and commercial fleets, turning ordinary journeys into a live index of potholes, violations and risky driving. The clever part is not the lens - it is the workflow that turns street footage into evidence someone can act on.
BEYOND4’s startup bet begins before the startup
In Malaysia, BEYOND4 connects skills training, startup programmes and routes into new markets. Its Pahang experiment shows why building the people can come before building the company.
IEBT Innovation sells the work after the brainstorm
The Brazilian consultancy pairs innovation programs with software teams and its own platforms. Its cases show what happens between a promising idea and an organization ready to use it.
ASSEK backs the people behind Kenya’s startups
Kenya has incubators, accelerators and business coaches. ASSEK’s bet is that helping them work better together can reach further than another startup programme.
Leading Cities wants your next climate idea to survive City Hall
The Boston nonprofit pairs startup training with prepaid city pilots. Its real test comes after the pitch: getting a charger onto a curb, a map into local hands, and a useful experiment into everyday service.
Made Tech wants government to work. Start with the wrong queue.
The British consultancy builds the digital plumbing behind public services. Its most revealing lesson: before speeding up a process, check whether it sends people to the right place.
Polaris Software and the business of getting paperwork out of the way
From pavement permits to police armouries, Polaris sells software for the work behind public services. Its growth rests on a practical bet: joining up the paperwork can be worth more than another app.
Beam stopped passing the hat. Now it sells time back.
The company that crowdfunded routes out of homelessness now sells AI tools to frontline services. Its wager: less paperwork can buy more time for people.
Arcus Global Put the Town Hall in the Cloud - Then Met the Mess in the Filing Cabinet
The Cambridge software maker sells councils one cloud platform for planning, licensing, waste and citizen service. Its growth explains the appeal - and its hardest migrations explain the risk.
Matt Singer Keeps Choosing the Hard Categories
From HR software to city hall to multilingual AI, the San Diego marketer has made a career of turning complicated software into a reason to care.
Anna Rolnicki Learned to Read a Room at Sea. Now She Helps GovTech Find Its Audience.
Before permits, planning applications and inspection reports, Anna Rolnicki worked the most literal kind of live audience: cruise passengers. Her route to Cloudpermit's C-suite is a study in attention, translation and the quiet craft of making complicated work matter.
Suzanne Behrens Spent 30 Years Making Government Technology Feel Human
She helped scale Microsoft's public-sector business from $100 million to more than $3 billion, then spent her final CMO chapter replacing mass marketing with precision. Her enduring idea is simpler than the software: sales and marketing should share the work, the numbers, and the consequences.
Granicus Owns the Boring Stuff at City Hall - Now It Wants to Be Government's AI Front Door
The software best known for council agendas and government email alerts now touches 30 billion digital experiences a year. Its next bet is that a governed AI agent can turn the municipal website maze into a useful front door.
CATALIS Bought 30 Gov-Tech Companies. The Hard Part Was Making Them Feel Like One.
CATALIS assembled a billion-dollar government software portfolio by buying the specialists already running courts, tax offices and city halls. Now it has to make those inherited tools easier to use, easier to connect and harder for public servants to dislike.
CivicPlus Wants to Be the Operating System for City Hall
It began with four cities that were tired of calling a webmaster. Twenty-eight years later, CivicPlus is stitching websites, permits, potholes, public records and AI into one sprawling bet: that city hall would rather buy a connected system than babysit a dozen vendors.
Cloudpermit Turned a Government Side Project Into the Software Behind 1,450 Town Halls
The first version looked like a wireframe and swapped integrations for hand work. Thirteen years later, Cloudpermit is selling local governments a practical escape from paper files, phone tag, and the lonely spreadsheet that somehow runs city hall.
Kelly Davis-Felner Has Spent a Career Making Complicated Technology Feel Obvious
From Wi-Fi standards to tax bills and fishing licenses, the PayIt CMO keeps returning to the same deceptively hard assignment: turn complicated systems into experiences ordinary people can trust and use.
Jennifer Edwards Turned an Industrial Design Degree Into a Career Building Growth Engines
The Euna Solutions CMO began as an industrial designer. Two decades later, she still treats growth the same way: understand the system, make complexity visible, and build something people can actually use.
Brandt Put the DMV Inside a Camping App - and Built a Business Around the Mess
The Tallahassee software company turned permits, park bookings, boat titles, call centers and even waterproof license cards into one government-ready operating system. The trick is less glamorous than a consumer app - and much harder to copy.
Euna Solutions Is Building the Financial Back Office Government Forgot to Modernize
The public sector does not lack software. It lacks software that understands a bid protest, a grant audit and a city budget meeting. Euna Solutions is betting one connected suite can turn those peculiarities into an advantage.
PayIt Put a Checkout Button on City Hall - Then Learned Ease Is Not Adoption
PayIt built a modern front door for taxes, tags and tickets without asking government to bulldoze the systems behind it. Grand Rapids shows the playbook can work; Toronto shows exactly where it can crack.
Felicia Curcuru Found the Future of Child Welfare in a 70-Column Spreadsheet
She began with families, rebuilt around social workers, and turned four months of patient observation into software used by more than 550 agencies. Her enduring product lesson is also her simplest: follow the sticky notes.
Kamran Saddique Is Making Government Paperwork Behave Like Software
His route from Sun Microsystems and Gulf finance to public-sector software explains an unusual bet: the least glamorous government workflows may be where technology can do its most practical work.
George Parks Found a Million-Dollar Tollbooth in Government Software. So He Started Taking It Apart.
A Georgia Tech coder went to the State Department, met the bureaucracy from the inside, and came back with Archon - a bet that the dullest obstacle in software may be one of the most valuable to remove.
Ananth Sankaralingam Took Doughnuts Door to Door - and Found Chromie’s Real Business
A failed browser-extension product, a one-way flight to Virginia and visits to roughly 50 contracting offices taught the young engineer a lesson no dashboard could: the useful signal is often hiding in the work people still do by hand.
Miten Marfatia Has Spent 25 Years Teaching Old Code New Tricks
Long before legacy software became an AI talking point, the EvolveWare founder was turning source code into something organizations could read, test and change - one cautious phase at a time.
Gavin Baum-Blake Is Teaching City Hall to Notice What It Misses
The Army veteran and attorney built City Detect around a stubborn municipal truth: cities cannot fix what they cannot see. His next test is making computer vision useful without letting the machine make the human decisions.