The company, founded in 2024, raised the capital in a Series A funding round led by Insight Partners, one of the world’s largest venture capital firms, with more than $90 billion under management.
UpWest and Resolute Ventures also took part.
Coming as concerns rise about a possible “AI bubble,” the new funding would seem to signal that such worries have yet to arrest the growth of AI in the state and local public sector.
“There is an incredible urgency happening [at] the state and local level” when it comes to AI, CEO Noam Maital told Government Technology. “That’s forcing agencies to build the guardrails” around AI.
Darwin raised $5 million in a separate round earlier this year.
Darwin positions itself as helping governments adopt AI and craft governing policies and compliance programs around the fast-expanding technology.
Doing so, according to the company, helps spark innovation and a solid foundation around AI.
Clients then can use the Darwin LaunchPad, an agentic AI workflow platform, to insert artificial intelligence into the daily work of procurement, permitting and other areas.
The rise of so-called “shadow AI” — that is, employees using AI basically on their own, without much clear official guidance — underscores the need for Darwin’s technology, according to Maital.
“Employees are not waiting,” he said, a situation that could lead to security or other problems, especially as public agencies work to build trust among officials and constituents for artificial intelligence.
Maital said Darwin has “dozens of customers,” including cities — the large Chicago suburb of Aurora, Ill., for instance — and transit agencies, in five states. The new funding will help the company expand its footprint and build out its core offerings and capabilities, he said.
Darwin also has appointed to its board of directors Brenda Harvey, former general manager for IBM Public Sector and a current board member for Nissan.
