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Before GovEagle, Akash was a Product Manager at Meta working on virtual reality co-presence and WhatsApp ads. Akash also spent time at IBM working on federal sales operations and predictive analytics. Akash graduated from Johns Hopkins with a degree in Economics and Computer Science. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/akashmandavilli/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/AkashMandavill4", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/dd411c24b3c0a21cd4410ab171cddcf237056c26.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1856015, "full_name": "Gabe Villasana", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Gabe is the cofounder and CTO of GovEagle, an AI platform to help government contractors win more awards. Prior to GovEagle, Gabe was the founding ML engineer for Stripe's Financial Crimes team and has led ML research at Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-villasana/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/GabeVillasana", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e8519341d8c1410bd7670abceedf64f964861bd4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 114986, "title": "Sales Development Representative (SDR)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/goveagle/jobs/uYPkFY4-sales-development-representative-sdr", "location": "New York, NY, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Sales", "role_type": null, "salary_range": "$70K - $120K", "equity_range": "0.01% - 0.10%", "experience": "1+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 84598, "title": "GovEagle - Win more government awards, faster", "tagline": "Government RFP to compliant first-draft in hours instead of days, powered by secure AI. ", "body": "**TL;DR:** \n\n[GovEagle](https://www.goveagle.com/) is an AI-powered proposal writer. GovEagle understands your past proposals, past performance, and more to generate a compliant first draft in your templates, voice, and style. GovEagle does all this in 60 minutes instead of 60 hours. \n\n# **The Problem:**\n\n* Government contractors spend weeks on each proposal they submit. These submissions are dozens of pages encompassing multiple volumes and appendices.  \n* Timelines for RFPs are often tight and unpredictable, leading to late nights/weekends at the best and forsaken opportunities at the worst. \n* Government solicitations have strict compliance requirements - missing simple things like the correct font size can lead to disqualification\n* Subject matter experts and program managers often spend more time on proposals and paperwork than on customer-facing work or developing new capabilities\n\n# **Our Solution**\n\n[GovEagle](http://www.goveagle.com) AI uses your past proposals, past performance, and more to generate a compliant first draft in < 60 minutes. The GovEagle platform produces a complete compliance matrix, generates a compliant outline, exports a first draft in your template, and supports compliance and quality reviews throughout the process.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84598&key=user_uploads/578463/1c59c85e-80bb-4871-b171-33eb0235bc70)\n\n### **Compliance Shred**\n\nGovEagle shreds the RFP, PWS/SOW, and any additional attachments provided with the solicitation. This goes beyond just ‘shall’ terms, GovEagle will find any requirement regardless of how it’s phrased. From here, you can filter and search to make a bid/no-bid decision. \n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXenZGySD30oO4iP22uJ_VUMuaImlsNYzih65YAJV2vKSMg8mAJ_7gIK45M5HtoBbIGCfnmpbX68_f8dhdn-Jt2p85R0QMv54S7RMAUWVh_q91A61nw2SvfWIxvMdCjQ8KgrzVlFE30pbJUEWiNCDR7lng6w?key=OrX_EzEPvEP3vPXbI5jRsw)\n\n### **Pink Team Draft (Compliant Outline)**\n\nGovEagle will “marry sections L and M” to give you a fully compliant outline with detailed writing plans that match the format requested in the RFP. GovEagle then finds relevant documents and excerpts from your past proposals, past performance, white papers, and more. Use GovEagle’s AI chat to find additional resources and add them to the compliant outline. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84598&key=user_uploads/578463/64377a29-1971-412c-ad21-2463c2b6daea)\n\n### **AI RFP Writer**\n\nUsing the pink-team draft and relevant content, GovEagle will generate a complete red-team draft in your style, template, and voice. Using our editing interface or our Microsoft Word Add-On, you can generate graphics and ask the AI for edits, redraft sections, and more. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=84598&key=user_uploads/578463/be0b2e06-728f-4697-8e38-dffd6e5999f8)\n\n### **The Team**\n\nAkash and Gabe met at Johns Hopkins University 8 years ago, where they built their first startup together. Before GovEagle, Akash was the youngest product manager at Meta and Gabe was the lead machine learning engineer at Stripe’s financial crimes team. While living in the DMV area, they worked with multiple government contractors and saw the challenge of proposal development firsthand. 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I also developed several channel partnerships from 0 ->1, securing $Xmm in high-margin licenses.\n\nMechE/CS @ Harvard '20. Led MakeHarvard. My thesis was on how we can safely deploy aerosols into the stratosphere to save Earth (see: geoengineering).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/augustschen", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a1a8d76a7a7d590d2e594a20c483b622e0d46ecd.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1667477, "full_name": "Elton Lossner", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Elton graduated with a bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from Harvard, where he cofounded MakeHarvard and wrote an AI/ML thesis in medtech. He interned in data engineering for Capital One and aerospace engineering for a space startup.\n\nHe spent ~5 years at BCG, exiting as Project Leader. He built *lots* of slides driving strategy and procurement cases in the Aerospace & Defense and Public Sector practice areas. 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Public sector procurement is a time-intensive process held together by Microsoft Office, legacy point solutions, tribal knowledge, and severely overworked civil servants. Hazel is building an AI-powered platform to accelerate and streamline this mission. \n\nWe’ve engaged hundreds of government agencies with diverse missions, and we’ve been hard at work building something they want. We’re already on contract with several governments and have received funding from agencies ranging from public school districts to the U.S. Navy!\n\nIf you know anyone supporting government procurement, please contact us! \n\n### 🦅 **About Us + What’s New** \n\nWe’re Elton and August, and we along with our 3 amazing founding software engineers currently operate out of NYC, Boston, DC, and Salt Lake City. We’re excited to (finally) re-launch Hazel, an AI-native solution **which enables government procurement teams to quickly and easily manage their procurement processes**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87095&key=user_uploads/1279709/df8d3560-f897-4131-b217-b9a76fc3525c)\n\nThe two of us met in college before taking separate jobs at Palantir and Boston Consulting Group, but our focus on public service remained the same, and we saw something that we knew had to be fixed. Along the way, we’ve picked up incredible mission-driven teammates with experience from Lockheed Martin, MITRE, SpaceX, Peraton, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Department of State, and USAID. \n\nWe began by building a solution for businesses to bid on RFPs because we wanted to help governments. The idea was that by bringing more businesses to the table, more competitive bids would both save governments money and deliver better performance. However, we soon realized that if our mission was to help government, we will best accomplish that by going directly B2G, not B2B2G. It means accepting the known challenges of selling to government as a startup (long sales cycles, a litany of compliance standards, nobody returns your emails, a new language of business, etc.), but nothing worthwhile - or fulfilling - comes easy.\n\n### 🏛**️ Problem** \n\nCivil servants in procurement are overwhelmed. \\~30% of procurement roles in government are unfilled as these employees retire or quit. Their current solutions are dated – one to two _decades_ behind the equivalent in B2B SaaS, gated behind sleepy incumbents leveraging political connections and litigation to stay on top. The lack of tools and talent means governments are more stretched than ever when it comes to buying the goods and services they need in a compliant and timely manner. This challenge is eating away at all levels of government, from local K-12 school districts to the Pentagon. As prices rise and the demands on governments grow, it becomes even more critical to strategically purchase the right tools for their success. Failure means degradation in service delivery, bad publicity, or even disaster. \n\nA maze of legal restrictions, understaffed departments, and growing complexity of requirements have made it near impossible to rapidly procure goods and services without defaulting to an existing incumbent. Governments would love to diversify their options or recompete… but choosing the default has shifted from a matter of convenience to an operational necessity. Over $2.7T is on the line for public procurement _annually._ \n\nThere has never been a more pressing – or opportune – time to address the procurement challenges taxing our government’s efficiency. Climate goals require rapidly procuring sustainable and efficient energy solutions nationwide. The new era of great power competition requires procuring novel weapon systems at scale to secure democracies in the Pacific and Eastern Europe. Our aging procurement systems are creaking under their weight and cannot unlock the potential of our nation.\n\n### 🔥 **Solution** \n\nHazel’s platform accelerates and automates the rote, time-intensive tasks of researching, generating and managing solicitations. Instead of trading documents over email and doing market research via cursory Google searches, civil servants should have a single streamlined platform that assists them in doing their jobs. \n\nHazel combines AI agents and a modern UI/UX to deliver a consumer-grade solution that surfaces critical information to human decision-makers, saving time and driving better outcomes. Hazel is the AI superpower for procurement teams short on staff and time but hungry for innovation and a way to do things better.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87095&key=user_uploads/1279709/ce5def23-288b-44fe-baa4-39c4fb09bcb8)\n\n_(Screenshot of the Hazel platform) Save legal-approved boilerplates, design content sections using our AI agents, and drag-and-drop them into templates. Compliant first-draft solicitations using the agency’s template in five minutes, not five months. Edit collaboratively in real-time and seamlessly export to Word when done. No copy-paste required._ \n\n### **🫡 Asks** \n\n* Do you have any contacts in government who navigate their agency’s internal procurement processes? If so, we’d love to connect with them! \n* Reach out to us at [august@hazelai.com](mailto:august@hazelai.com) and [elton@hazelai.com](mailto:elton@hazelai.com) with any other comments, questions. **We’re building AI for the public interest** 🇺🇸", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Mel-hazel-ai-procurement-software-for-government", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2025-01-23T17:01:17.012Z" }, { "id": 77743, "title": "Hazel: AI-driven marketplace for government contracts", "tagline": "We’re using AI to enable SMBs to easily find and win public sector contract opportunities", "body": "### **📝 BLUF**\n\n[Hazel](https://hazeltech.ai/) applies AI to create an equitable and accessible marketplace for businesses to bid on government contracts. Contracts are separately issued by governments, and responses must meet long lists of criteria to be compliant and award-eligible, making them immensely hard and time-consuming to write. Hazel breaks down that moat.\n\nIf you or anyone you know wants to get matched to or respond to government RFPs, please [contact us](mailto:elton@hazeltech.ai?cc=august@hazeltech.ai)!\n\n### **🥷 About Us**\n\nWe’re [Elton](https://linkedin.com/in/eltonlossner) and [August](https://linkedin.com/in/augustschen), in SF for this YC W24 batch. We’re excited to announce Hazel, an AI-driven marketplace **that enables businesses to quickly respond to issued government RFPs in a compliant manner**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77743&key=user_uploads/1667477/121ccfbb-5ac0-49ed-b528-7c5a63f0c1a6)\n\nThe two of us met in college before taking separate jobs at Palantir and Boston Consulting Group – but our focus on mission and serving the public interest remained the same, and we saw something that we knew had to be fixed.\n\n### **📄 Problem**\n\nThe government contracting process is broken. Contracts are separately posted on thousands of different websites and can include hundreds of pages of overlapping compliance regulations. Responding to bids can require entire business divisions supported by armies of consultants and in-house lawyers. Even the simplest of contracts – if you can find one that fits your business – require responses spanning dozens of pages, and the tiniest compliance error will jeopardize your entire submission.\n\nThe US has created a system where it is almost impossible for SMBs to win work with the government. As incumbents become even more entrenched, governments face increasing prices and deteriorating performance because they have allowed for no alternatives. With over $1T of infrastructure funding now on the line for award, the US cannot afford the status quo.\n\n### **🧠 Solution**\n\nUse AI to automate discovery, drafting, and compliance. Instead of spending days trawling local websites and weeks writing fruitless proposals, you should only spend minutes defining your scope of work and price.\n\nUse Hazel to get matched to a potential contract, synthesize a draft response based on the RFP and your company information, create a checklist of to-dos, and run compliance checks. No more scrambling to register your company the day before submission. No more losing a bid because you missed a cybersecurity requirement listed on page 13 of Appendix G.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=77743&key=user_uploads/1667477/88962715-f3d7-4dfb-97b6-deb758c92062)\n\n_{Choose which sections to include in your response, view a timeline of the next steps for the process, and use GenAI to craft your answer based on existing company documentation.}_\n\n### **📈 Asks**\n\n* Reach out! We’re excited to help users win new bids with US government agencies, particularly at the state and local level\n* Spread the word! 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We’re Anthony and Connor, aka the [Ontra Mobility](https://www.ontramobility.com/) team, and we’re revolutionizing how people move.\n\n## **❗ The Problem**\n\nTransit agencies in the U.S. are facing massive budget shortfalls (up to $3B). Agencies need to adapt their transit systems more quickly to meet the demands of our evolving cities. Work from home led to a large drop in ridership, which is problematic for train and bus routes, which have high fixed costs. Cutting lines or reducing frequency further impacts ridership - transit agencies need a different solution.\n\n## **💡 The Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83029&key=user_uploads/1627714/d71e126f-1b4c-4fa4-b902-3e1e5f0e05bd)\n\nOntra helps cities and other transit agencies increase ridership through data-driven planning and real-time optimization. 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Prior to joining YC, they worked on [MARTA Reach](https://itsmarta.com/reach.aspx) in Atlanta, GA, and [CAT Smart](https://catchacat.org/smart/) in Savannah, GA.\n\n## **🙏 Ask: How you can help**\n\n* Share this post and spread the word!\n* Connect us to private- or public- **transit agency employees** or **board members**, **politicians,** and **transit advocates**. [founders@ontramobility.com](mailto:founders@ontramobility.com)\n\n Quick blurb to copy and paste: [Ontra Mobility](https://www.ontramobility.com/) is founded by two former Google engineers with PhDs in [operations](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XZ4e0UwAAAAJ&hl=en) [research](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=z3j6J0cAAAAJ&hl=en). Ontra helps cities and other transit agencies increase ridership through data-driven planning and real-time optimization. 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They use AI to size defense markets, map decision-makers, and identify relevant opportunities—all in one place.\n\n### **Problem:**\n\nThe DoD is the largest buyer in the world, however, turning federal budgets into contracts is notoriously difficult. YC recently requested startups interested in tackling government software, acknowledging that selling to the government is a daunting task few builders would approach on their own. Only a couple of startups have successfully broken into the government market, with some requiring lawsuits and billionaire founders to get their foot in the door.\n\n### **Solution:**\n\nUsul, in response, builds software to simplify this process. Here’s an example for computer vision software:\n\n1. Identify active defense programs for computer vision\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85526&key=user_uploads/1124751/a1fa8a86-d8da-4791-b25a-e1319ea6d7f0)\n\n2. Analyze other companies winning computer vision contracts\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85526&key=user_uploads/1124751/4179e2dc-2ef9-4431-99c3-2ec45fb892ab)\n\n3. Identify and contact active government buyers for computer vision\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85526&key=user_uploads/1124751/a73aabc6-0c68-4fde-a9ab-dd90dea9f25c)\n\n### **Our Ask:**\n\nWe’re Live! If you’re interested in winning defense contracts or want to expand your current efforts, please contact us at [founders@usul.com](mailto:founders@usul.com) or book a demo [here](https://calendly.com/d/cmq7-4sg-b57/usul-product-call?month=2024-11)! Feel free to learn more about what we’re building at [usul.com](http://usul.com).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MFS-usul-pitchbook-for-government", "votes": 25, "created_at": "2024-11-13T14:46:36.718Z" }, { "id": 82530, "title": "Usul - AI for defense contractors 🇺🇸", "tagline": "Win more DoD contracts with policy, budgetary, and contract intelligence. ", "body": "### **TLDR:**\n\n[Usul](https://www.usul.co/) allows defense contractors to easily interpret government policy, track funding lines across budgetary documents, and strategize the best opportunities for new business.\n\n### **Problem:**\n\nWinning DoD contracts can take years, even if you’re well-connected and highly familiar with government acquisition processes. Unfortunately, many companies lack both and go out of business before ever landing their first contract. Adding fuel to the fire, critical government information is randomly dispersed across a multitude of archaic websites, databases, and spreadsheets, making it even harder for new entrants to compete against established primes. As a result, defense contractors are currently spending weeks finding answers to crucial policy, budgetary, and contracting questions and are completely neglected in terms of tooling.\n\n### **Solution:**\n\nWe allow defense contractors to quickly track and query complex DoD demand signals under a unified workspace. Contractors can now:\n\n* Identify novel contract opportunities\n* Track DoD funding lines and analyze project budgetary trends\n* Identify relevant acquisition and compliance regulations\n* Find the most relevant DoD buyers for existing capabilities\n\nAll in one place.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82530&key=user_uploads/1097644/e2b525a7-e178-49ae-93d0-b5d7b9425d87)\n\n### **Coming Soon:**\n\nStake your own company data against government demand signals to:\n\n* Predict future funding lines for your capabilities\n* Identify personalized avenues for future opportunities\n* Pull custom acquisition and compliance matrices\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82530&key=user_uploads/1097644/ea1e1d50-bd26-49a9-a6d7-1410d77efabd)\n\n### **About Us:**\n\nWe’re a group of AI nerds who’ve all worked for government contractors like Palantir, Apple, Reliable Robotics, etc. We met in a class at Stanford called Hacking 4 Defense, where we talked to 200+ people in the DoD/defense sector about their biggest problems. Our insights from these incredible conversations inspired us to form Usul. And yes, it’s a Dune reference…\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=82530&key=user_uploads/1097644/ff9b7208-5f5c-4d7c-9d40-e23a358937ff)\n\n[Jarren Reid](https://linkedin.com/in/jarrenreid) left high school to start his first company. He then worked for 4 government contractors (Palantir, MITRE, etc.) and dropped out of Stanford to help his past colleagues win more contracts.\n\n[Oliver Gomez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliveragomez/) started building as a PM at Finnt (YC W22). He then worked at Palantir and leveraged LLMs for military operational legal review at Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center. He dropped out last quarter.\n\n[Joonghyun Lee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joonghyun-lee/) is a commercial pilot who has been working on autonomous aircraft research for the past 3 years. He has experienced numerous pain points dealing with regulation across different government agencies.\n\n[Pranav Sriram](https://www.linkedin.com/in/p-sriram/) has been engrossed in AI research for the past four years at Apple and the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab. He previously worked at NASA and saw firsthand how time-consuming getting answers to basic technology, security, and policy questions across government could be.\n\n### **Our Ask:**\n\nWe’re Live! Learn more about what we’re building at [usul.co](http://usul.co).\n\nIf you know any:\n\n* Business Development or Capture teams at Defense Contractors\n* Defense/Government consultants\n* Companies looking to expand to Defense/Government\n\nWe’d love to chat! Please feel free to contact us at [founders@usul.co](mailto:founders@usul.co) or book a demo [here](https://calendly.com/d/ckt9-b7f-k8n/usul-product-call)!", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LT8-usul-ai-for-defense-contractors", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2024-07-29T18:12:23.784Z" } ] }, { "id": 29956, "name": "XTraffic", "slug": "xtraffic", "former_names": [ "Circuits Evolved" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8e0265bbd73fc7f3720fd415f8dcce7c0c3789bb.png", "website": "https://XTraffic.com/", "all_locations": "Dallas, TX, USA", "long_description": "XTraffic is at the intersection of advancements in sensor technology and affordability. This means entire cities can affordably upgrade their infrastructure - and some already are. We are live in multiple cities, with both ongoing and successful pilots, corridors of multiple intersections, and soon to be entire cities. 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The autonomous control of traffic lights gives back to both city officials and their citizens their most valuable resource - time.\n\n—\n\nHi everyone, we’re [Everett](https://linkedin.com/in/everett-ivy-b686b0248), [Luke](https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-adams-8528b72b1), and [Brian](https://linkedin.com/in/brian-payne-a1460511b), the founders of XTraffic.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXejbizf09ylz2rGI0hGRXW9yfaEIkWkjaJyJYBBKBWrPmWMNFosDq-x4cuuk9J9istGszcZn_w28yOaHDIr566l0vzk2Ny89S5GTpeYjfNnwrUNiJGbqptOaD0KrDJo0_ea4hoFuR_DXzgepyi0KzDSO3fK?key=vZoHBUQ0WCZBVbuGUBuu6A)\n\n**Why Now?**\n\nThe combination of rapidly advancing technology and smart-city initiatives has created a unique intersection in time where intelligent traffic control is not just possible but affordable.\n\nAs smart city initiatives are being adopted worldwide, municipalities of all sizes are looking for ways to affordably transition to intelligent infrastructure. XTraffic leverages this trend by providing cities with a scalable, intelligent system that upgrades existing traffic lights into a self-optimizing network.\n\n**Market Opportunity**\n\nThe global smart city market is projected to reach [$3.84 trillion by 2029](https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/smart-cities-market), with traffic management as a requirement to aid in driving this growth. Urban areas are expanding, and traffic congestion is a major pain point that costs the U.S. [more than $70.4 billion in 2023](https://inrix.com/scorecard/), a 15% increase from 2022. XTraffic is tapping into this immense market opportunity by offering a solution that not only reduces traffic congestion but also enhances safety, reduces emissions, and increases overall quality of life.\n\n**Why XTraffic?**\n\nOur system isn’t just about less traffic; it’s about smarter use of our infrastructure. XTraffic's approach allows traffic lights to 'talk' to each other, making real-time decisions based on current conditions across an entire network. This holistic view enables our system to adapt dynamically to changing traffic patterns, emergencies, and other factors - this significantly reduces delays and optimizes traffic flow across entire cities.\n\nWith our solution, cities can avoid the massive costs of overhauling infrastructure. Instead, they can implement an affordable, flexible system that integrates seamlessly with existing technology. This reduces the barrier to entry and allows for rapid deployment, scaling from single intersections to entire metropolitan areas.\n\n**Call to Action**\n\nWe’re excited to be part of Y Combinator, and we’re looking forward to connecting with cities, investors, and partners who share our vision for smarter, safer, and more efficient urban environments. If you’re interested in learning more or discussing opportunities, check out or reach out directly to our team.\n\nLet’s work together to give people back their most valuable resource: time.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Li0-xtraffic-making-traffic-lights-smarter-and-travel-times-faster", "votes": 22, "created_at": "2024-08-27T14:39:07.484Z" } ] }, { "id": 30126, "name": "Roundabout Technologies", "slug": "roundabout-technologies", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/4966bb2facc9c59279d1337270fbdb9d4a76bb93.png", "website": "https://roundabout.tech", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Roundabout Technologies makes AI-powered traffic lights, allowing cities to reduce pedestrian deaths, improve traffic, and reduce resident complaints. 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They’ve waited at a light when nobody is going the other direction, or not gotten detected on a bike, or seen inefficient fixed-timing signals in the most congested downtown areas. Public works departments get resident complaints about these things all the time. The problem is that current detection systems can only detect the presence or absence of vehicles in fixed zones; they can’t model and anticipate the actions of road users as they approach and move through the intersection. By modelling everything in 3D and simulating all possible light changes, we can pick the best action at every moment. We’ve long shared an interest in infrastructure and urbanism and want to see cities become more bike and pedestrian friendly. This desire led us to traffic lights, a clear example of infrastructure that treats pedestrians and cyclists as afterthoughts. We also feel that our skillsets are very well-suited to this domain: Collin has built safety-critical IoT medical device software, and Sabeek’s computer vision systems have been deployed in fully driverless vehicles on public roads. 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We have a combined 15 years of industry experience in embedded systems and computer vision, building safety-critical software that’s been deployed on medical devices at Verily and in driverless vehicles at Waymo and Zoox. As avid cyclists, we’ve long taken an interest in urbanism and public infrastructure, and we both have a deep desire to see cities become more pedestrian and bike-friendly. Roundabout sits at the intersection of our interests and our professional skills, a chance for us to use our hardware and AI skills to make cities more livable.\n\n## The Problem\n\nCities want traffic infrastructure that works for their residents. But existing systems fall short. Drivers waste hours at inefficiently programmed traffic lights. This floods city governments with resident complaints, and can even cause safety issues as impatient drivers race to catch yellow lights and risk causing crashes in the process. Existing light timings have to come from traffic studies that measure traffic flows for a week and use that to determine light timings for the next 5 years, a workflow that is both expensive and imprecise.\n\nWhile induction loops and existing camera-based systems make things somewhat better, they are still brittle and manually programmed, so they scale poorly on complex, highly congested areas. These detection systems have limited range, unable to see cars before they’ve already come to a stop at an empty red light. Pedestrians and bikes are rarely detected in these systems, so cities must add extra buttons as an afterthought to respond to pedestrian traffic. And providing priority for emergency vehicles and buses requires extra transponders be installed.\n\nAdd all this up, and you get a system that requires lots of expensive hardware and manual programming but still leaves drivers, pedestrians, and transit riders deeply unsatisfied. Clearly we should be able to do better than this. And now, we can!\n\n## Solution\n\nRoundabout Technologies is an AI-powered traffic control system that makes intersections safer, more efficient, and cheaper for cities to maintain. We use computer vision and commodity traffic cameras to build a 3D map of everything happening at the intersection in real time. We then use this map to simulate all possible signal states and pick the one that leads to the lowest wait times. Without solution, cities can\n\n1. Greatly reduce traffic congestion\n2. Eliminate the frustration of waiting at empty intersections\n3. Respond to pedestrians and cyclists\n4. Give priority to buses and emergency vehicles\n5. And reduce resident complaints about their intersections\n\nAll in a single system, and all without ever requiring specialized hardware or bespoke traffic studies!\n\n## Ask\n\nKnow anyone working in municipal public works, transportation departments, or traffic engineering consulting firms? We’d love to meet them! [founders@roundabout.tech](mailto:founders@roundabout.tech)\n\n## Team\n\n[Collin Barnwell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/collinbarnwell) is a software leader and engineer with extensive experience building and shipping safety-critical IoT and camera devices, including a device that has been implanted in humans. He's worked at Google and Verily Life Sciences.\n\n[Sabeek Pradhan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabeek-pradhan-0135865a) is a computer vision expert with extensive experience building systems for high-accuracy vehicle, pedestrian and bike detection and tracking at the self-driving car companies Zoox, Waymo and Applied Intuition, and his software has been deployed on public roads in fully driverless vehicles.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=85115&key=user_uploads/1676838/616c65da-0969-46ef-853d-3c627059b407)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/M8p-roundabout-technologies-ai-powered-traffic-lights", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2024-10-29T14:39:25.096Z" } ] }, { "id": 30178, "name": "Candor", "slug": "candor", "former_names": [ "Pomelo" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6e3a1be48eb0cf348674d5461251aaa02e645af2.png", "website": "https://www.usecandor.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Candor helps defense and deeptech companies navigate the government procurement process with AI. 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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.\r\n\r\nThat’s why we’re making it easier to find and apply for opportunities, taking the application process from weeks to days.\r\n\r\nWe’re only going to see more cooperation in the coming years. 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Now, the government looks to Silicon Valley and startups to fix its biggest problems.\n\nTens of billions in **non-dilutive funding** are available for startups through **SBIRs, STTRs, and other federal programs**, especially in Defense, BioTech, Aerospace, and Energy. However, most founders either **don’t know about them** or **can’t afford the time and effort** required to apply.\n\nThat’s why we built **Candor**— an **AI search and application drafting platform** that takes the application process from **weeks to days** while ensuring full compliance.\n\n### **What Candor Does**\n\n**AI-Powered Search** – No more scrolling through [**SAM.gov**](http://SAM.gov)**, **[**Grants.gov**](http://Grants.gov)**, or DSIP** to see if your startup can access government funding. Candor **automatically matches** your company with the most relevant funding opportunities.\n\n**AI Proposal Drafting** – Generate **80% of your proposal** by simply uploading your company’s past proposals, technical documents, and slide decks.\n\n**Compliance Checks & AI Red Team Review** – Never get disqualified on a **technicality**. Candor’s AI **evaluates** your application against agency-specific formatting and evaluation criteria.\\\n[**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuB3fjhy9Jo**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuB3fjhy9Jo)\n\n### **Why This Matters**\n\nWinning can unlock **$2M+ in government funding**(per win), but today:\n\n* **Startups miss out** because finding opportunities is painful and opaque\n* **Most founders don’t have time** to write long technical proposals that can take a month\n* **Expensive consultants** charge **$10K+ per application** with no guarantees.\n\n### **Why We’re Building This**\n\nMarcus helped lead Stanford’s DEFCON Tech and National Security Network. He also worked as a fellow at Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation, where he worked on building a campus accelerator for startups that were building in American Dynamism. 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And it’s because no software truly wraps around the way government employees work.\n\n### **💡 The Solution**\n\n**Caucus is the last piece of software government workers will ever need.**\n\nWe’re building general purpose AI agents that integrate across the tools and workflows government employees already use, starting with congressional offices. This won’t just increase government efficiency, but it will empower a more responsive government, better connecting Americans to the services and representation they deserve. Our goal is to become _the last piece of software the American government will ever need._\n\n### **🧠 Why Now**\n\nGovernment employees are under immense pressure: workloads are growing, staffing levels are stretched thin, and the demands of modern governance are becoming more dynamic and fast moving.\n\nWe’re not building another CRM. We're building Cursor for government, where AI agents are the connective tissue between humans and every app they use.\n\n### **📖 Our Story**\n\nWe started Caucus after seeing the everyday chaos inside congressional offices. Despite their best efforts, staffers are buried in busywork, slowed down by tools that don’t serve them. [Amir](https://www.linkedin.com/in/theamirfarahani/) built and sold Turbo Legi, an AI platform for legislative solutions, to FiscalNote (NYSE: NOTE) before finishing undergrad. [Tyler](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-chen-43570b241/), a Yale Physics + CS student, brought technical firepower from machine learning labs, quantum computing research, and building AI voice tools for a series D startup. Amir and Tyler grew up together and have known each other their entire lives, since kindergarten and toddlerhood. Years later, Amir pitched Tyler the vision for Caucus while he was still at Yale, and they’ve been building it together ever since\n\nNo one was building the last mile of software for the people who keep our government running. \n\n**_So we are._**\n\n### **❓FAQ**\n\n**Who is Caucus for?**\\\nGovernment employees: starting with congressional offices and soon expanding across agencies, departments, and local governments.\n\n**What does it do?**\\\nCaucus embeds AI agents into every government workflow.\n\n**How is this different from existing government software?**\\\nCaucus _isn’t_ software in the traditional sense. It’s the connective layer across all software, a general purpose agent that works with the tools you already use, at the moment you need them, without disrupting your workflow. Think: Cursor, but for the government.\n\n**What does the Congressional product do?**\\\nThe Congressional product is an AI platform purpose built for House and Senate offices. 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Today, residents calling city hall are often bounced between departments, asked to repeat themselves, and left waiting for answers - a process that frustrates the public, exhausts staff, and slows governments down. \n\nFewer than 2% of cities can afford a centralized 311 call center to fix this - for everyone else, it’s been cost-prohibitive. We change that. \n\nWith EffiGov, cities get 24/7 coverage, reduced staffing strain, and fewer misroutes. Residents get answers and action in one call - day or night.\n\nWe’re already live in a county of 160,000 residents, where EffiGov is handling constituent service calls around the clock. Here’s a photo from our onsite visit with their Assistant County Administrator:\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfQ0o-fGuHAxsodOLezKjnidHiR4FLxtQvDCkCveHfG-uJSO1BrBvYu75RVNwnfWH6Yry05sUNHJmlxE8JiUrx7OJNurz1EhJcDehnQckFeyygi6TeTfTcwanXncl-7b7crxOOE6A?key=O0mj2zmftTTinKhFm2HN-w)\n\nWho we are: We’re friends from college who’ve been building govtech for the past 12 months. Aubteen is a former White House intern who has spent years working with local governments; Aden launched Atlassian’s AI agent, Rovo.\n\nOur ask: Know someone in city government - especially leadership or constituent-facing services? We’d love an intro. [founders@effi-gov.com](mailto:founders@effi-gov.com) \n\n_Every call answered. Every constituent heard. 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We’re [Gordy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gordysun/) and [Justin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin2028/). We’re excited to publicly announce what we’ve been building at Lakonia.\n\n**TL;DR:** Lakonia’s AI Command and Control platform acts as a tactical assistant by listening to radio communications and using AI to automatically extract key intel, map units, and recommend actions. We give first-responder, law enforcement, and military teams the situational awareness they need to make better, faster decisions.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrVPw4CVzxU\n\n# **The Problem:**\n\nPolice and military command and control technology is terribly archaic and outdated. Commanders in a central post rely almost entirely on fragmented radio chatter to understand complex situations, forcing them to build a mental picture from scratch on every incident/situation. And current software is woefully outdated - unintelligent and unintuitive.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=95135&key=user_uploads/2944902/726ea501-6ff8-446d-9b30-a7fc9a3028fd)\n\nThese issues only get exacerbated during multi-agency operations, where different departments (like SFPD and CHP), military branches, or even allied forces cannot communicate seamlessly. 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When breaking the rules rarely costs anything, competition stops being about who builds the better product and starts being about who's willing to cheat.\n\n**What Particularity does**\n\n\\- **Uncover.** Agents check live websites the way a consumer would. Does the advertised price match checkout? Can you actually cancel online? Every step is captured, timestamped, and hashed.\n\n\\- **Investigate.** Every complaint gets a first-pass investigation within the same minute, matched against evidence already on file.\n\n\\- **Act.** Findings map to the elements of the law, so staff can move straight to a warning letter or enforcement action.\n\n**About us**\n\nKavin worked at a causal inference startup and on consumer protection and capital markets at the Senate Banking Committee. 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