GovTech Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

Fed10 is a legislative consulting firm staffed by AI agents. We monitor every bill across the U.S., flag threats to your business, and deliver actionable insights — the same work a $500/hr policy consultant does, but in seconds instead of days. Built by three ex-lobbyists who passed legislation together.

At AutoSitu, we’re building coordinated AI agents that live inside cities’ cross-department development review workflows—doing the heavy lifting, escalating judgment calls, and letting staff focus where human expertise actually matters. AutoSitu provides expert-level guidance and catch issues in minutes, helping cities and design firms/developers navigate an increasingly complex and fragmented regulatory environment. We serve as a strategic partner to forward-thinking public agencies and design teams across the country and are backed by Y Combinator (W26).

Mayflower is building an AI-powered HR plug-in that automates immigration screening, eligibility checks, and compliance for global candidates. The platform parses documents, classifies visa pathways, and generates attorney-ready forms. By integrating directly with existing HR systems, Mayflower helps companies surface only compliant candidates, reduce legal risk, and streamline the international hiring process.

Lakonia is building an AI-powered command and control platform for law enforcement and the military. Our AI transcribes radio communications, analyzes them, and then synthesizes information for commanders/dispatchers and operators to act on.

Code Four slashes the administrative burden on law enforcement through AI-driven automation. Officers spend up to a third of their shifts manually transcribing body camera footage, creating inaccuracies, reducing transparency, and cutting into frontline duties. We're here to eliminate these inefficiencies by integrating with body cameras, record management systems, and digital evidence management systems—acting as a software layer for data processing. We free the most overworked and underappreciated people in the world: police officers.

Tire Swing uses AI to power resident and applicant eligibility evaluations for affordable housing. Our software manages the resident certification and recertification process end-to-end for public and private properties supported by Project Based Rental Assistance, Low Income Housing Tax Credit, and Housing Vouchers. It serves as a drop-in replacement for third-party consultants and auditors, and helps compliance staff complete their work faster and more accurately.

Law enforcement is drowning in data. Closure helps search it to solve crime. - Hiring: UX, Engineering, AI, Ops, - Supporting: law enforcement throughout the country - Expanding: Local, state, and federal law enforcement.

Candor helps defense and deeptech companies navigate the government procurement process with AI. We inject agents into the procurement process - agents that not only surface opportunities but actively pursue them - giving anyone the same capabilities as large contractors. When we met at Stanford 4 years ago, it was rare for startups to work with the US Government. In the years that we’ve been involved in the burgeoning Defense Tech ecosystem, a lot has changed. Silicon Valley and the US Government are closer than they’ve been in decades. As fellows in Stanford’s Center for National Security Innovation, we’ve had the privilege of speaking with dozens of government officials who have come to Silicon Valley looking to fund and scale startups solving their most urgent problems. However, we’ve seen firsthand the struggles these startups face in securing gov funding. Marcus, having spoken with dozens of defense startups in his time helping lead the Stanford Defense Tech Club and trying to set up a national security startup accelerator has seen this especially. That’s why we’re making it easier to find and apply for opportunities, taking the application process from weeks to days. We’re only going to see more cooperation in the coming years. With that, there will be increasingly more funding going towards companies in defense, energy, biotech, quantum, etc. Candor lets you unlock that funding potential.

Archon helps software companies sell to the government by cutting the required federal compliance timeline (called FedRAMP) down from 16 to 6 months and cuts costs by $1M per company. Email us at inquiries@archon.inc

City building departments are understaffed and overworked. Meanwhile, builders lobby to remove power from building departments. Because building departments are usually the only profitable/self-sustaining branch of a local government, this is problematic. Permitify allows city build-plan reviewers to 10x their productivity covering the labor shortage, reducing the time required to issue a building permit, and allowing the city government's only profitable branch to stay intact.

Usul helps companies win government contracts in 60+ nations. Our AI monitors $8 trillion in annual government spending and instantly matches you to contracts across defense, IT, energy, healthcare and more. Learn more at https://usul.com/

Ontra Mobility is founded by two former Googler engineers with PhDs in operations research. Ontra helps cities and other transit agencies increase ridership through data-driven planning and real-time optimization. The founders developed the software that powered MARTA Reach in Atlanta, GA and CAT SMART in Savannah, GA.

EdgeTrace unifies your entire camera network into a single, powerful intelligence platform–helping public safety teams detect threats faster, respond in real time, and protect the community.

Hazel builds AI-powered procurement software for U.S. state, local, and federal government agencies. We automate the full procurement process including requirements generation, market research, solicitation drafting, and proposal evaluation. Agencies use Hazel to save time and money while improving mission delivery.

Metalware develops advanced firmware security solutions for critical infrastructure, protecting industries like aerospace, defense, automotive, telecom, and healthcare from cyber threats. Our product is an automated, intelligent binary fuzzer that enables organizations to efficiently discover and remediate security weaknesses in hardware products before deployment.

Aurelian automates non-emergency calls for 911 centers. Our AI-powered operator instantly routes, triages, and resolves calls so citizens get exactly what they need and 911 dispatchers get to focus on emergencies. Upwards of 80% of total call volume faced by public safety agencies are administrative calls e.g., citizens trying to pay parking tickets or reporting a power outage. Aurelian lessens this burden and lets 9-1-1 dispatchers deal with actual emergencies. To date, Aurelian has automated hundreds of thousands of calls and sent over 10,000 emergent calls (that typically would've sat on hold) to the 911 line to be handled immediately.

Vocational training programs and workforce management software for government agencies looking to create high-paying jobs and up-skill their low-income and justice-involved citizens out of poverty.

Intuitive AI platform that helps general contractors and developers manage their preconstruction process

Stairs helps young Americans buy their first home. Our home search identifies homes based on their finances, and connects them to government grants, loans and tax breaks.

GovDash helps modern government contractors win work faster and execute successfully after award, using one AI-native platform across capture, proposals, and post-award.

🏛 Govly makes it easier to sell to the government We... 🗄 Centralize government opportunities Govly starts out with sam.gov opportunities then allows you to ingest any other contract feed. You can create targeted searches to find what you're looking and get notified immediately when a new opportunity matches any of your saved searches. 🤝 Facilitate internal and external collaboration You can easily track what you're working on and see what your team is working on. You can also partner with other organizations in the Govly network to securely share data back and forth and collaborate on bids. 🤖 Automate repetitive tasks You can automate repetitive task related to specific contracting workflows saving users an average of 10 hours per week. 📊 Provide market analytics You can use our advanced searching alongside our analytics dashboard to identify trends and new business opportunities.

Virtually everything in the military requires a plan—from everyday operations to war-time missions. With a rigorous process, many stakeholders, and rudimentary software (PowerPoint!!), planning is very slow. Onebrief is a collaborative software designed to make military planning fast. It turns every input into reusable building blocks and automatically keeps all planning artifacts in sync.

Forage is a mission-driven payments company that helps businesses accept government benefits through a single, unified API. Today, over 42 million Americans receive government assistance (ex: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) to buy groceries. Starting with enabling EBT SNAP online, Forage builds the financial infrastructure empowering businesses to serve these shoppers online.

Kodex makes it easy for companies to process, and respond to, subpoenas from governments around the world. Agencies, like the FBI, subpoena user data from customers like Coinbase, and thousands of other companies - without Kodex, companies largely rely on email, fax, and spreadsheets to manage them. Kodex is a SaaS tool that helps private sector companies manage relationships, workflows, and secure file transfer with government agencies who are seeking confidential information on a company's users. We streamline compliance operations, protect the privacy of their users, reduce error, and validate the legitimacy of government agents who are requesting information.

SpruceID lets users control their data across the web. Instead of people signing into platforms, we imagine platforms should sign into people’s data vaults. We implement this pattern into digital wallet ecosystems for governments, enterprises, and blockchains. We believe that architectures that enable individual autonomy in the digital world are necessary for free societies and dynamic economies to thrive.

InEvent is an all in one platform that allows you to use multiple solutions (website, registration, mobile app, hospitality, check-in, badge printing, budgeting, etc) altogether, without having to upload data 3-4x times on different pages. Everything is available on the cloud, 24x7, for you and your attendees. Most of our competitors have modules that don't talk with each other, we solved this by creating a solid foundation that all of our solutions are built upon. We have already successfully improved more than 12,400 events, boosting more than 2,390,000 registrations so far. We have integrations with Salesforce, Marketo, Oracle, Microsoft and other vendors to create a simple, easy-to-use marketing ecosystem for all our customers. Discover the InEvent Virtual Lobby, the top event marketing solution in the world today: https://inevent.com/en/virtual-online-streaming-events-room-events-innovative.php

Recidiviz is a non-profit technology company that drives meaningful changes in criminal justice systems and improved outcomes for justice-impacted individuals. Criminal justice data today is inefficient and ineffective: researchers, advocates, policymakers and practitioners each need funding and time for data collection and cleaning (for almost any data at all), and most data collected is too stale by the time it’s compiled to be useful. Recidiviz has built an open-source platform to ingest data from across data silos, link it, standardize it, and expose it in usable formats to the ecosystem. We provide products and analyses on top of this platform to help government agencies understand how their justice systems are functioning, set and track progress towards goals, drive evidence-based improvements to practice and policy, and ensure justice-impacted folks reenter their communities as safely and quickly as they can.

When a 911 call is received, our drone is autonomously dispatched from a fire station and flies to the scene. It streams a live video feed back to the first responders, providing them with key situational details, such as the size and exact location of a fire.

Cognition IP is a tech-powered San Francisco based intellectual property law firm with partners who have represented some of the most innovative companies in the world in many aspects of intellectual property planning, including Apple, Salesforce, Purdue, Hewlett Packard, AstraZeneca, and Texas Instruments. Offering patent and trademark filing and prosecution, innovation harvesting and portfolio management, Cognition IP supports early stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises with on-demand, flat-fee IP counsel and the results expected from a top-tier firm. Schedule a complimentary consultation at: https://www.CognitionIP.com

Promise modernizes government payments helping agencies recover more revenue while giving residents flexible, humane ways to pay. We replace broken systems with tech that actually works for everyone.

Our goal is to empower local government employees with the tools, technology, and support they need so they can deliver exceptional service to their taxpayers and feel proud of the work they do for their communities. We contribute by building software to streamline local government tax assessors’ workflows using AI. Specifically, we streamline the change of ownership process for real estate and create more seamless ways for tax offices to communicate digitally with their taxpayers. For instance, when properties get bought and sold, local governments have to process reams of paper in order to update their systems and perform the analyses necessary to update the tax roll. Our software makes this process 10x faster and much more enjoyable for employees in the tax office to complete, and creates trust and goodwill in the minds of taxpayers.

UpCodes simplifies code compliance for architects, engineers, and construction professionals with a centralized, searchable library of 6,000+ state and city building codes. Using NLP to parse complex code adoptions across U.S. jurisdictions, UpCodes powers the first AI-powered code-to-spec workflow, connecting regulations to specifications and a growing product library. The platform also provides an AI solution for building product manufacturers, enabling them to showcase compliant products and reach design professionals at the moment of specification. With 800,000 monthly active users, UpCodes has seen strong product-led growth in transforming how teams navigate construction regulations.

A smart city technology platform that helps state and local governments take a data-driven approach to ensure safe, stable, and affordable housing.

Token Transit puts cities in the center of managing new mobility by providing a complete fare payment platform for public transportation. Token Transit launched our mobile ticketing app in 2016. We now provide payments for transportation in over 200 cities across the United States and Canada with integration into the major third party trip planning apps such as Transit, Moovit and Google Maps.

DemocracyOS is an online space for deliberation and voting on political proposals. It is a platform for a more open and participatory government.The software aims to stimulate better arguments and come to better rulings, as peers.

Impactive, backed by YCombinator and Higher Ground Labs, was founded in 2017 as a get-out-the-vote tool for Democrats. The Impactive product has since expanded to become a full-service platform allowing any campaign or cause to engage in distributed organizing. In the 2018 midterms, volunteers contacted over 1 million voters using Impactive. In 2020, we scaled significantly to meet the demand of this unprecedented election cycle. We’ve worked with over 500 clients nationwide, and volunteers have sent over 100 million text messages on behalf of Planned Parenthood, the DCCC, SEIU, Community Change, When We All Vote, Greenpeace, and campaigns up and down the ballot. Our work has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, TechCrunch, Fast Company, and many more. In 2021, Impactive will expand its platform further into nonprofit, advocacy, and additional markets. This will be an exciting time to play a critical role in helping shape the direction for what’s coming next. We will continue to prioritize our progressive values while building a feature-rich platform that will broaden our reach across the impact space.

Elucd is a GovTech company that provides cities with near real-time understanding of how citizens feel about their government.

SimpleCitizen is here to make applying for citizenship in the United States as simple as filling out an online application for a job. Taking 20 minutes to answer just 20 questions can save you thousands in lawyer fees. SimpleCitizen is here to help you make the most important decision in your life SIMPLE.

Every day, incredible government workers serve the public without the resources—and appreciation—their important work deserves. These hard-working teams have to deal with communications arriving from too many channels, maze-like processes for fulfilling constituent requests, and a dangerous lack of visibility into constituent opinions on major issues and the work teams perform. Software can help! But the vendor community has responded with hard-to-use, hard-to-implement, and hard-to-purchase private sector software rather than building something from the ground up. These outdated solutions fail to address government workers’ unique challenges. Seneca Systems was founded to address those challenges and strengthen the vital bond between government and people. Our Constituent Services Platform, Romulus, centralizes constituent communications, organizes service requests, and provides insights into constituent preferences and work performed. Built for governments by people who love government workers, Romulus enables government workers to get more done in less time, with less overhead, and to more constituent applause.

Bonfire is the leading next-generation eSourcing / competitive bidding and RFx platform. Bonfire goes beyond the basic automation of eProcurement suites and older simple bidding tools, helping you to make better, faster decisions. It’s a collaborative, powerful, and insightful cloud-based platform for today’s procurement needs. We're focused on government procurement teams (which control ~18% of GDP) and enabling them to thrive in a world of crushing compliance requirements and very high workloads. Bonfire streamlines the entire RFx and bidding process, helping to run projects >50% faster. Bonfire empowers users with unparalleled evaluation features for deeper analysis, delivered through our distinctly intuitive and easy-to-use platform. Bonfire is trusted with over a billion dollars of supplier selection decisions per month, and is one of the fastest growing new procurement technologies.

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