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Cloverleaf AI

Techstars '21

Denver, US · Founded 2021 · 1 employees on LinkedIn · 11 known investors

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Cloverleaf AI provides a B2G sales intelligence platform that monitors government agencies and surfaces insights from public meetings to help sales teams identify deal opportunities before RFPs are issued. The platform delivers daily alerts tailored to a company's sales territory and target decision-makers in government procurement.

Also known as Cloverleaf

Founders & leadership

Cloverleaf AI was founded in 2021 by Adam Zucker.

AZAdam Zucker
Adam ZuckerCEO/Co-FounderFounder of Cloverleaf AI, a B2G sales intelligence platform that monitors government agencies and surfaces insights from public meetings to help sales teams identify deal opportunities.

Investors · 11

Also in the syndicate · 3

First MileIvy VenturesLegal Tech Fund

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$5.6M disclosed across 2 of 3 rounds · 2024–2026

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Company profile

researched Sep 2026

Cloverleaf AI operates a business-to-government (B2G) sales intelligence platform that continuously monitors more than 70,000 public-sector agencies and over 200,000 public-sector speakers. The system ingests and analyzes public meeting content — committee discussions, video, agendas, meeting minutes, notices, legislation, budget language, purchase data and municipal code — and converts it into signals about upcoming projects, policies and procurement needs. Outputs are delivered as a daily early-morning email matched to a seller's territory and target stakeholders, with synchronization into Salesforce.

The core premise is that government buying decisions take shape in open committee meetings months or years before a request for proposal is issued, so vendors who rely on RFP databases engage too late. Cloverleaf AI positions its product for the full B2G sales funnel, supporting early opportunity discovery, stakeholder research, tailored outreach and objection handling during active deals. Product components disclosed publicly include Vocal Fingerprinting, which identifies speakers by voice and tracks how officials' positions evolve across meetings, and an Opportunity Database, a searchable real-time index of local, state and federal opportunities that the company said captured more than 100,000 new opportunities per month at launch. The company reports its data set refreshes every four hours and that its contact library contains more than one million verified contacts, and states it is SOC 2 certified.

Founding story

Adam Zucker co-founded Cloverleaf AI in 2021 after building software products at WeWork and Schrödinger, serving first as CTO and later as CEO. Co-founder Jeremy Becker previously built Engaged Citizens, a platform that converted unstructured local government meeting content into structured data, and held product and operations roles at Zeal and Ontuitive. The founders describe building the product after observing B2G sellers lose winnable deals by engaging after procurement decisions had effectively been made.

Business model

Cloverleaf AI sells a subscription software platform to revenue teams at companies selling into government, delivering territory-configured intelligence alerts and a searchable opportunity database, with integrations into customer CRM systems such as Salesforce and planned expansion of native CRM and MCP integrations.

Recurring software revenue from business customers; the lead seed investor cited an ARR retention rate exceeding 120 percent as of late 2024.

Traction

Customers cited publicly include Airbnb, Holland & Knight, Waste Management, Waste Connections and Uber Transit. The lead seed investor reported ARR retention above 120 percent in November 2024. Company marketing cites customer-reported outcomes of more than $1 million in pipeline per rep per quarter and $20 million in sourced revenue within two months. By August 2026 the company reported monitoring more than 70,000 public agencies and 200,000 public-sector speakers with more than one million verified contacts.

Latest developments

In August 2026 Cloverleaf AI disclosed its $8 million Series A from early 2026, led by S3 Ventures with Jackson Square Ventures, Ivy Ventures and Tawani Ventures participating. The company said the capital supports hiring across sales, marketing, business development and customer success, scaling platform capabilities, broadening its public-sector dataset, and expanding native CRM and MCP integrations. It also reported an expanded data set spanning video, agendas, minutes, notices, legislation, budgets, purchase data and municipal code, four-hour data refreshes and a contact library of more than one million verified contacts.

▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history

Market position

Cloverleaf AI differentiates itself from horizontal go-to-market intelligence tools and from B2G tools that scrape published RFP databases by focusing on pre-RFP signals extracted from public meetings; coverage describes it as a procurement technology supplier providing advance intelligence on upcoming government contracts.

The company's stated differentiator is upstream, pre-RFP visibility: surfacing project discussions and decision-maker positions from committee meetings years before a solicitation is published, filtered to a seller's territory and named stakeholders rather than delivered as a high-volume alert feed.

Technology

The platform applies AI to large volumes of unstructured public-sector content, including voice-based speaker identification ("vocal fingerprinting") to attribute statements to specific officials and track position changes over time, plus ingestion of agendas, minutes, notices, legislation, budgets, purchase data and municipal code refreshed every four hours. Delivery mechanisms include daily email digests, a searchable opportunity database, Salesforce sync and planned native CRM and MCP integrations.

Go-to-market

Direct sales with demo requests from the company website, supported by customer case studies (for example Uber Transit) and testimonials; the Series A proceeds are being used to hire across sales, marketing, business development and customer success.

Government contractors and B2G revenue teams — account executives and sales, marketing and business development staff at companies selling into state, local and federal agencies, including firms in transit, waste, infrastructure, hospitality and legal services. Named customers and references include Uber Transit, Airbnb, Holland & Knight, Waste Management and Waste Connections.

Geography

Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with coverage of local, state and federal government bodies across the United States.

History

Founded in 2021 in Denver and initially run with a bootstrapping approach, the company announced a $2.8 million seed round in November 2024 alongside the launch of its Vocal Fingerprinting and Opportunity Database products, and was selected for the Google for Startups AI Academy for American Infrastructure around the same time. It raised an $8 million Series A in January 2026 led by S3 Ventures, which it disclosed publicly in August 2026 together with news of expanded hiring and a broader public-sector data set.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
ARR retention rateNov 2024Exceeds 120%
Data refresh frequencyAug 2026Every four hours
Government agencies monitoredJan 202670,000 agencies
HeadcountAug 20261
Monthly government opportunities captured in Opportunity DatabaseNov 2024100,000 opportunities per month
Pipeline generated per rep per quarter (customer-reported)Jan 2026$1M
Public-sector speakers monitoredJan 2026200,000 speakers
Security certificationJan 2026SOC 2 certified
Sourced revenue (customer-reported, within two months)Jan 2026$20M
Verified contacts in contact libraryAug 20261,000,000 contacts

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

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Timeline · 5

launches, deals, and filings
Aug 2026
Company discloses previously unannounced Series A alongside growth update

Cloverleaf AI publicly disclosed the early-2026 $8 million round in August 2026, saying it had delayed the announcement until it had accompanying growth news, including hiring across sales, marketing, business development and customer success and an expanded data set covering video, agendas, minutes, notices, legislation, budgets, purchase data and municipal code.

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Jan 2026
$8M Series A led by S3 Ventures

Cloverleaf AI raised $8 million in Series A funding in January 2026, led by S3 Ventures with participation from Jackson Square Ventures, Ivy Ventures and Tawani Ventures; proceeds are earmarked for hiring in sales, marketing and business development, platform scaling, dataset expansion and native CRM and MCP integrations.

$8M source ↗

Nov 2024
Cloverleaf AI announces $2.8M seed round

The company announced a $2.8 million seed round led by Jackson Square Ventures, with participation from First Mile, Techstars and Legal Tech Fund.

$2.8M source ↗

Nov 2024
Launch of Vocal Fingerprinting and Opportunity Database

Cloverleaf AI unveiled Vocal Fingerprinting, which monitors and reports government officials' positions from public meetings, and the Opportunity Database, a searchable index capturing more than 100,000 monthly government opportunities before the RFP stage.

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Nov 2024
Selected for Google for Startups AI Academy for American Infrastructure

Cloverleaf AI was selected for the Google for Startups AI Academy for American Infrastructure, a program supporting startups using AI for public works and foundational systems in the United States.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

▸Research sources · 8

primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Cloverleaf AI do?
Cloverleaf AI is a Denver-based B2G sales intelligence platform that mines public government meetings for pre-RFP deal signals.
Who founded Cloverleaf AI?
Cloverleaf AI was founded by Adam Zucker in 2021.
Who are Cloverleaf AI's investors?
Cloverleaf AI's investors include FirstMile Ventures, Jackson Square Ventures, JHH vc, LegalTech, Service Provider Capital, TAWANI Ventures, Techstars, S3 Ventures.
How much funding has Cloverleaf AI raised?
Cloverleaf AI has disclosed $5.6M raised across 2 of its 3 known rounds.
Where is Cloverleaf AI headquartered?
Cloverleaf AI is headquartered in Denver, US.