GovWell is bringing automation and efficiency to local governments
Summary
GovWell co-founder and CTO Ben Cohen discovered this while trying to help his dad, a contractor, apply for building permits. New York-based GovWell is a workflow system for small and medium-sized governments that helps automate and streamline tasks ranging from building permits and code to zoning to fire safety inspections. GovWell co-founder and CEO Troy LeCaire told TechCrunch that the platform is helping local governments complete tasks in a fraction of the time it used to take. “A good example is something like Salesforce — it can be configured to adapt to different businesses, but under the hood, it is the same process.” LeCaire and Cohen were matched through a founder speed-dating activity at Fractal Software, a New York-based startup incubator. It’s a digital cloud software provider for governments that raised $178 million in venture funding before being acquired by Cox Enterprises earlier this year.