GovTech Startups

Spare offers an AI platform for transit agencies that unifies scheduling, dispatch, rider communication, fleet health, and compliance reporting across multiple service modes. It focuses on paratransit, ADA, and NEMT operations, with tools for real-time dispatch, automated call handling, route planning, and unified operational data serving public transit providers across 230+ communities.

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Springbrook Software provides cloud-based financial and administrative software for small and mid-sized local government agencies, covering areas such as fund accounting, payroll, and utility billing. Its offering includes a multi-tenant SaaS platform with more than 20 applications serving over 2,800 agencies.

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St. Martin Parish Economic Development is a government economic development office in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, offering support to businesses and developers relocating or growing in the area. It promotes the parish's industrial sites, infrastructure, workforce, low taxes, and affordable real estate near Lafayette along I-10 and I-49.

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SWadiTZ develops cloud-based software for administering student and passenger transportation, serving public authorities, school districts, and transport operators across Germany. The platform automates route planning, eligibility verification, payment processing, and enables secure digital collaboration among schools, parents, authorities, and transport companies.

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Stae offers a platform that automates data workflows for public agencies, connecting legacy datasets and BI systems to support performance management and generate insights on programs such as mobility, housing, and budgeting. It serves civic leaders and government organizations.

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Stairs Financial operates a home search platform for first-time homebuyers that matches properties to individual financial situations and facilitates access to public funding programs including grants, loans, and tax incentives.

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Evidex is a mobile and web application that guides law enforcement officers through Standardized Field Sobriety Tests (SFSTs), capturing time-stamped and geo-tagged evidence at the roadside and auto-populating impairment stop reports. It also provides supervisors and command staff with a dashboard for real-time stop counts, arrest rates, and officer-level data for DUI enforcement agencies.

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State of Place builds an urban data and analytics platform focused on the built environment, aimed at helping cities and communities improve places to make them safer and healthier. It targets urban planning and community development audiences.

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Stationwise provides staffing solutions for fire departments, helping manage scheduling and administrative operations while supporting firefighter wellbeing.

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Stayway operates a data platform that provides solutions for small and mid-sized enterprises, including a subsidy/grant cloud service ("補助金クラウド") to support their growth. The company partners with municipalities and banks in Japan to deliver subsidy-related digital infrastructure to local businesses.

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SteadyIQ provides an income and employment verification platform ("Income Passport") that lets applicants permission their income data to government human services agencies for determining benefit eligibility. It serves state and local benefits agencies administering programs such as SNAP and Medicaid in the United States, offering embedded, no-code, and API integration options.

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Steuben County EDC is the economic development organization for Steuben County, Indiana, promoting the area's location, industrial parks, and infrastructure to attract businesses, investors, and entrepreneurs. It provides resources such as coworking space, revolving loan funds, and connections to Trine University's Innovation Center.

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Stratum is an AI platform that reads government application filings, checks them against agencies' existing review rubrics, and routes each step to the model that reviews it most accurately, clearing adjudication backlogs while a human officer still makes the final decision. It targets US government agencies handling filings such as patents, FDA registrations, SEC filings, building permits, passports, and veterans' benefits.

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Streamline offers a platform for finding government funding opportunities, evaluating their fit and eligibility, and building grant applications, with AI tools to analyze solicitations and RFIs. It serves companies, universities, national laboratories, and non-profits pursuing government grants, with a focus on climate-related funding.

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STRIDE Ventures is a national innovation platform launched by the U.S. National Science Foundation and Start2 Group to translate NSF-funded emerging technologies into real-world capabilities. It runs milestone-driven national challenges, such as the AI Efficiency Challenge and the Tech Metal Transformation Challenge, aimed at advancing U.S. competitiveness and supply chain resilience.

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Strix is an AI documentation platform that drafts narrative investigation documents such as reports, arrest packages, and case files, keeping a human investigator as the author of every output. It serves Canadian police services, public-sector enforcement agencies, and private-sector investigative units, with data residency and single-tenant deployment kept in Canada.

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Subcity operates a platform that helps businesses discover and claim tax credits, grants, and economic incentives, drawing on a database of over 1,000 federal, state, and local programs. It offers a matching system, a common application process, and automation of paperwork and compliance for finance and accounting teams.

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Summit County is the local government of Summit County, Utah, providing public services related to health, safety, welfare, roads, property taxes, and land preservation for county residents.

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SureCert provides digital identity and document verification technology, using AI-driven verification to create reusable digital identities. Its projects have included inclusive digital identity work in Thailand and COVID vaccine certificates for public-sector clients.

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SureImpact provides impact management and case management software for nonprofits and other social good organizations, letting them track case activities, automate data collection, and measure program outcomes. It includes a library of over 400 outcome measures and real-time performance dashboards for reporting impact to stakeholders.

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Provides automatic, multi-channel notification and alert systems that combine real-time emergency requests, geolocated events, weather and wave analysis, camera analytics, and health-department advisories for water safety and public safety coordination. Serves emergency and aquatic safety operations with tools for cross-agency collaboration, forensic reporting, audits, and record management.

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FEST is a public diplomacy initiative in which consulates, embassies, and government and diplomatic organizations host a two-week series of cross-stakeholder events in a city to highlight a country's innovations and foster international collaboration. Its programs connect arts and cultural organizations, science and technology institutions, universities, industry and startup networks, and social impact groups through exhibitions, workshops, gatherings, exchanges, and screenings.

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Symbium builds an instant permitting service for residential decarbonization projects such as solar panels, energy storage, and heat pumps, letting homeowners and contractors understand what is possible on a property and submit and manage permit applications. Its proprietary Complaw technology mechanizes regulatory analysis in a TurboTax-like way, serving the citizen-to-government permitting market with an initial focus on the US.

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Symvaro develops web, smartphone, and tablet software for cities, municipalities, and associations to manage municipal drinking water supply and waste management more efficiently. Its tools aim to help public-sector water and waste operations save time and money while maintaining data privacy.

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