public-policy
(25)
La French Tech wants France to buy what France builds
France gave its startups a flag. Now La French Tech is trying to give them customers, with a buying programme backed by more than €2 billion in corporate commitments.
Entlaq Holding wants Egypt’s startups to outgrow the paperwork
A Cairo consultancy connects founders, investors and policymakers. Its wager: a promising business needs a working ecosystem as much as a working product.
The Lobbying Firm That Had to Win Its Way Back Into the Room
In Annapolis, influence is a business of memory. Evans & Associates lost almost everything, returned with one client, and rebuilt a family firm that Maryland now counts among its highest-earning lobbying shops.
The Consulting Firm That Turned a Stormwater Tax Into a Day at the Park
Shockey Consulting sells something city halls badly need and cannot manufacture on command: a credible conversation. Its best work begins where the engineering ends and the public questions start.
The Grant Is Won Before the Application Opens
TFG built a Washington business around a deceptively practical idea: towns should shape projects for federal money long before a deadline turns strategy into paperwork.
The City’s Quiet Switchboard
JCRC-NY’s product is not a press release. It is the relationship that already exists when a school, synagogue, City Hall or neighborhood leader suddenly needs the right person on the phone.
The Glamour Is the Wrapper. The Work Is Plumbing.
williamsworks has spent two decades turning celebrity, corporate and philanthropic intent into the unglamorous machinery of change - field research, local partnerships, funding systems and the patience to hand power over.
The Business of Making Strangers Useful to One Another
For 128 years, the Virginia Peninsula Chamber has sold a simple regional advantage: put the shipyard executive, the banker, the professor and the small-business owner in the same room - then give them a reason to talk.
The Famous Person Is Not the Point
WRTHY learned that attention is only rented. Its sharper trick is deciding who should borrow it - an epidemiologist, a farmer, a survivor, an athlete - and giving that person something useful to do with the crowd.
The Lobbying Firm That Learned to Run the Whole Room
NorthStar Strategies does not stop at opening doors in Trenton. It lobbies, runs associations, stages events, raises money, and explains infrastructure projects to the neighbors - a small firm's answer to problems that refuse to stay in one lane.
The Firm That Works the Space Between the Table and the Street
Phase 2 Consulting built a business around a Washington truth: policy may be written in official rooms, but permission is earned far beyond them.
The Company That Gets Paid to Make Everyone Else Speak
For four decades, Kearns & West has worked in the room where public projects get stuck - turning rival interests, technical evidence, and civic distrust into a process people can keep using.
The Muslim Voice With One Foot on Capitol Hill and the Other in Hollywood
For nearly four decades, MPAC has worked a two-room strategy: influence the rules in Washington, then influence the stories in Hollywood. The bet is that representation needs both policy and plot.
The Artemis Agency Knows Fame Is Only Useful When You Give It a Job
A small Los Angeles firm works in the narrow space between a famous person who cares and a cause that needs more than a famous face. Its trick is to turn attention into an assignment.
The Firm That Treats a Planning Hearing Like Election Night
Marathon Communications learned politics by winning elections. Then it discovered that a building, an airport terminal and a policy proposal all face the same test: can enough skeptical people be moved from no to yes?
The Lobbyists Who Learned to Run the Meeting After the Meeting
For 55 years, California Advocates has sold access to the policy process. Its more revealing invention was learning to run the associations that need it.
FM3 Research and the expensive difference between liking and voting
A public can love your mission and still reject your tax. FM3 Research makes a business of finding that gap before a campaign has to.
California Strategies knows where California gets stuck
A wastewater plant, a children’s policy contract and a bench of former public officials reveal what this Sacramento consultancy sells: an understanding of how decisions actually get made.
Greater Vancouver Board of Trade: The business of getting things moving
Born after Vancouver’s Great Fire, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade now tackles a different kind of gridlock: trade barriers, slow growth, and the challenge of getting the right people in the room.
People Powered wants democracy to come with instructions
From city budgets to campus AI rules, People Powered helps communities get a say in decisions that affect them. Its bet: practical guidance, patient mentors and a little funding can turn participation into policy.
The Crypto Fund With No LPs - and a Very Particular Map of the Future
UDHC is betting that decentralized finance will not replace the old system. It will quietly connect to it - with better plumbing, clearer rules and products ordinary customers can use.
SEMI
For 55 years SEMI has been the connective tissue of the chip industry - the neutral ground where rival equipment makers, materials suppliers and fabs agree on the rules, sizes and safety norms that let a wafer built in one country be tested in another.
The Digital Chamber
The crypto industry’s most consequential product may be neither a token nor an app, but a shared voice in Washington. The Digital Chamber has spent more than a decade turning technical arguments into policy, access and organized pressure.
Fed10
Fed10 is a full-stack AI legislative consulting firm that monitors every bill introduced across all 50 U.S. state legislatures and Congress, classifies whether each bill is a threat or opportunity to a specific client, drafts amendment language, and maps out who to call and what to say. Founded in 2025 by three former teenage lobbyists who dropped out of Harvard, Williams, and Berkeley, it aims to do the work of a $500/hour policy consultant in seconds instead of days.
Biotechnology Innovation Organization
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) is the world's largest trade association for the biotech industry, representing more than 1,000 companies, research institutions and state and regional bio centers across the United States and 30-plus countries. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., BIO lobbies on drug pricing, intellectual property, regulation and biosecurity, and runs the BIO International Convention - the industry's flagship annual dealmaking and networking event. Led since 2024 by President and CEO John F. Crowley, a rare-disease entrepreneur whose own children have Pompe disease, BIO's stated mission is to advance a 'bio revolution' that cures patients, protects the climate and nourishes humanity.