Craft Ventures led the Series A funding round, which follows $10 million in seed funding earlier this year.
The investment reflects yet another bet, amid speculation of a market bubble, that artificial intelligence will boost public-sector operations while providing profitable returns.
The Starbridge platform helps gov tech suppliers keep tabs on contracting and other procurement information and signals put out by public agencies, according to a blog post from CEO Justin Wenig.
For instance, a request entered into the platform that says “Show me cities struggling with street cleanliness” results in a list of local governments with that problem.
“What once took hours of manual research by an account executive now happens in seconds,” Wenig wrote. “From there, insight turns into action.”
The company’s platform can offer up information about officials who oversee street maintenance, and can craft personalized emails to those people, among other tasks. It’s basically procurement intelligence, at least according to Wenig.
Wenig says more than 160 “enterprise public-sector sales teams” use Starbridge.
The new capital will go toward hiring, product development and other tasks, he wrote in the blog post.
As procurement undergoes changes, including bringing on more AI and other digital tools, public officials are calling for improvements in the space in the hopes of making the procurement process more efficient.
A recent example came from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers' 2025 Annual Conference in Denver.
There, state CIOs and others talked about how suppliers of government technology could benefit from bringing more “flexibility” to the table when negotiating with public officials, and encouraged more use of master contracts.
All this comes as tariffs inject uncertainty into procurement for state and local governments, presenting a fresh challenge for procurement even as the space embraces more AI.
