How Starbridge is Bridging the Sales Channels Between Businesses, Government, and Schools

Starbridge, delivering unique go-to-market data on your public sector accounts, led by Justin Wenig, has raised $42 million in Series A funding led by Craft Ventures.

Starbridge’s AI-driven GTM intelligence platform helps public sector sales teams track hundreds of thousands of government agencies and schools in real time, monitoring bids, meetings, contracts, grants, budgets, procurement rules, and contacts.

Over 160 enterprise teams, including Instructure, SimpliGov, and Clever, use Starbridge to identify public sector opportunities well before RFPs are issued.

Typing a plain English query like “Show me cities struggling with street cleanliness” instantly surfaces the municipalities facing that challenge. Tasks that once took hours of research now happen in seconds.

Starbridge then identifies the responsible official, drafts a personalized email, and syncs it to the CRM, turning insight into action. Users report up to 4× higher response rates by targeting prospects with relevant, actionable intelligence.

In 2019, only a handful of startups in Y Combinator tackled the public sector, while most avoided it entirely. The reason: a broken infrastructure for public-private partnerships.

From tracking school district purchases to finding the right government contacts or contract vehicles, information was nearly impossible to access. The result: slow sales cycles, discouraged entrepreneurs, fewer innovations for the public sector, and higher costs for taxpayers.