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The technology market serving state and local government has changed a lot since we first published the GovTech 100 in 2015. Here’s what we’ve learned. -
See who made the latest edition of the GovTech 100 as we analyze the market serving state and local government IT. With ever-more investment in gov tech, several large firms have begun merging with startups and niche players.
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Dedrone, the company Axon acquired, makes software, sensors and AI that help Ukraine defend against enemy drones — and protect utilities, prisons and public spaces in the U.S. Dedrone had raised $127 million from Axon and other investors.
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The federal government has turned to a startup to expand on its work during the pandemic by implementing a national testing program meant to find COVID-19 outbreaks before in-person testing can reveal them.
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Intercontinental Exchange is putting its chips down on the startup, which helps government agencies issue bonds. The two companies are also partnering to put more data in the hands of public officials.
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The startup, which offers transportation technology with a focus on parking, has grown very quickly in the past four years. Recently the area of curb management has attracted a lot of attention in the tech world.
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The startup, about two years old, has now pulled in close to $10 million in less than a year's time. Its core business concept is to mount cameras on buses and crunch the footage for valuable insights.
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The company, which offers technology to help local governments set up and run their websites, is using certified partners so that agencies can use different firms for things like implementation and content development.
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Insight Partners, which has done several high-profile deals in the gov tech space in recent years, has bought a majority stake in CivicPlus, a popular website builder and software vendor for local governments.
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The company’s new software, AgileMapper, gives users the ability to log an item by taking a photo of it. Artificial intelligence can then identify the object and add it to a larger inventory.
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Five years ago, a report from the municipal website builder OpenCities found many ways local governments needed to improve. Now a follow-up finds that they’ve improved in some areas, but still have plenty of work to do.
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The company is growing quickly, with more than 650 call center clients across the country using its dispatching, mapping and analytics software. Now it's raised its second investment round since 2019.
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GovQA, which sells software to help the public sector handle public records requests, is putting out a quarterly index to benchmark how difficult the job is. By their measure, complexity has more than doubled since 2018.
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SolarAPP+, developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, is designed to take days or weeks out of the process of getting solar projects approved. Now Accela is bringing the app to its customers at no cost.
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One mobile app is focused on public-sector employees and contractors, while the other app is meant for residents. Here's how one gov tech startup is putting a spin on chatbots using geofences.
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The acquisition, probably the biggest gov tech deal ever, would bring together a giant of local government software with a giant of state software. Here's how the deal came together, and what it might mean for gov tech.
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In a year that asked more of government than ever before, the growing and dynamic market of companies working to serve the public sector were partners in innovation, and grew their businesses in the process.
