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.
Signals is NationGraph's buying-trigger engine for companies selling to state, local, education and defense (SLED) buyers. It aggregates thousands of public sector data sources - budgets, RFPs, board meeting minutes, grant awards, contract renewals and personnel changes - and converts them into scored, ranked opportunities that surface before a formal RFP is ever published. The result is delivered daily, organized by account, and synced into Salesforce, HubSpot and Slack so sellers can act on intent instead of waiting for the bid.
NationGraph is an AI-native intelligence platform that helps companies predict and win public sector contracts. By indexing more than 110,000 state, local, and education (SLED) agencies and reading millions of meeting minutes, budgets, RFPs, and purchase orders, NationGraph surfaces buying signals before opportunities are publicly posted - giving vendors a head start in the notoriously opaque world of government procurement.
Starbridge is a New York-based AI go-to-market platform built for companies selling to government and education. It scrapes the messy, fragmented world of public sector data - board meeting minutes, budgets, RFPs, contract expirations and procurement records - and turns it into ranked buying signals, account intelligence and auto-drafted proposals so sales teams can find and win deals before the RFP drops. Founded in 2024 by Coursedog veteran Justin Wenig, it has raised $52M total, including a $42M Series A led by Craft Ventures in October 2025, and serves 160+ enterprise public sector sales teams.
Justin Wenig is the founder and CEO of Starbridge, a New York AI company that helps businesses find and win public-sector contracts. He earlier co-founded Coursedog, a higher-education operations platform he scaled to 300+ institutions before a nine-figure sale to JMI Equity in 2021. A Columbia computer science grad and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, he raised a $42M Series A led by Craft Ventures in October 2025 and angel-invests in 50+ AI startups on the side.