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Announcing our investment in DemandStar, a marketplace for government procurement  

Version One Ventures

The Seattle-based company provides an online marketplace for business-to-government commerce – it connects local and national suppliers with government procurement officers. . It should come as no surprise that government procurement is riddled with inefficiency. DemandStar opens up this market to a modern process.

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5 Secrets To Generating Revenue During COVID-19

YoungUpstarts

government agencies are one of the few organizations that will actually be spending more money in the coming months. Access Current Government RFPs. Requests for Quotes (RFQs) are immediate needs that the government has and are typically awarded in just a few days or weeks. Learn How to Win Government Contracts.

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

Although they focus on initiatives that leverage technology, they engage in a wide spectrum of cross-sector collaborations with for-profit, government, and non-profit institutions. They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. There are 1.4m-1.6m

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Startup Accelerator/Funding Opportunity: AEP’s IlluminationLAB

The Startup Magazine

EFFICIENCY, OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE – Digitizing operational activities is an opportunity to aggregate more accurate data (from customers, infrastructures and facilities) which can then be used to improve efficiency. You’ll have the chance to expand on your application and convince the panel that you’re right for the program.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

My personal favorite and best fit for GRP Partners was Thumbtack. They called themselves a “social OS.&# Essentially I see it as two things: 1) an aggregator of social content from multiple places including Twitter, Facebook and soon even Gmail. There wasn’t a bad company tonight but I had a clear favorite. Team Pip.io

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Although the data is public, the startup may not have been able to manually aggregate that data on its own, or the owner of the website may expressly prohibit use of the data outside of the services the owner offers.

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100 Startups Join Forces with Air Force Stakeholders at Inaugural Spark Collider Event

Austin Startup

Since most of our lives are governed by maintenance, innovation becomes a form of deviating from the norm and creating constructive conflict. The closing panel on Day 1 felt like the start of a witty punchline, “A startup founder, a government official, and a venture capitalist walk into a room…”?—?what

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