UrbanLeap

2022年10月31日

五歲的公司說,它曾35地方政府,幫助他們買煙花,甚至係統和超聲對公墓服務。100年政府科技公司最近與CentralSquare技術。2022年10月31日•UrbanLeap沒有更多。矽穀的政府科技公司最近自豪地說,這是“重塑公共采購市場”已經關閉,根據電子郵件從首席執行官Arik Bronshtein和CTO Erez Druk。“修複政府采購也被證明是困難的。雖然我們得到有意義的接近,今天我們關閉UrbanLeap”電子郵件閱讀。“關閉是一個失敗。當企業家是問為什麼他們失敗了,隻有一個適當的回答:“我不夠好。我們是好的,我們是聰明的,我們瘋狂的努力5年了。但是我們沒有足夠好。很快,我們將分享我們的倒影。” The two executives could not be immediately reached for additional comment, and the UrbanLeap website, still up as of Monday afternoon, offered no information or acknowledgment of the company shutdown. UrbanLeap made the most recent GovTech 100 . In August, in an announcement that helped to illustrate what UrbanLeap was trying to do in the gov tech market, CentralSquare Technologies, which sells public-sector software, said it had formed a strategic partnership with the company. “This partnership provides government entities a solution to take control of the procurement process within a single platform to develop, publish and evaluate bids,” the announcement read. According to data from Crunchbase, UrbanLeap raised $4.2 million in total funding and had two investors. The shutdown email from the company’s executives painted a finer picture of UrbanLeap’s activities. “35 municipalities used us to deploy $16M+ throughout the procurement process,” the email read. “They leveraged UrbanLeap to procure anything: printers, IT systems, road construction, fireworks and even sonography services to figure out which cemetery spots are currently occupied.” Back in 2021, the company, after initially aiming to help local governments run pilots and otherwise try out new ideas, launched a procurement tool meant to help public agencies with the buying process. At the time a company executive said the tech could prove especially useful for purchases of products that a specific government had not bought before, or for particularly complicated purchases. The shutdown email from the UrbanLeap CEO and CTO offers insight on the procurement and gov tech spaces and their challenges — business insight that might feel familiar to other people and organizations involved in public agency operations and gov tech even as the industry as a whole continues to grow and attract significant investment . “We like to joke that we picked the hardest possible business for our first startup. Governments are not the fastest adopters in the world,” the email read. “Achieving the best outcome for every government purchase is an important mission. Government procurement is how 10 (percent) of the economy is run. It is how taxpayer dollars are being spent. It is how governments are able to provide, and sometimes fail to provide, critical services to their residents.”