5 Top GovTech Startups to Watch in 2022

Thousands of new startups are founded every year – emerging companies with the potential to disrupt the government sector. To give you a head-start on emerging solutions and startups advancing the government and public sectors in 2022, we analyzed a total of 935 global GovTech startups & scaleups. Meet 5 of the most promising startups to watch!

Global Startup Heat Map highlights 5 GovTech Startups to Watch in 2022

Out of 935, the 5 GovTech startups to watch are chosen through the Big Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered StartUs Insights Discovery Platform, covering over 2 093 000+ startups & scaleups globally. As the world’s largest resource for data on emerging companies, the SaaS platform enables you to identify relevant startups, emerging technologies & future industry trends quickly & exhaustively.

The Global Startup Heat Map below highlights the 5 GovTech startups you should watch in 2022 as well as the geo-distribution of the other 930 startups & scaleups we analyzed for this research. We hand-picked the 5 highlighted GovTech startups based on our data-driven startup scouting approach, taking into account factors such as location, founding year, the relevance of technology, and funding, among others.

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HIAGO offers a Civil Engagement Social Network

Founding Year: 2019
Location: Mountain View, US
Funding: USD 600 000
Partner for: Public Feedback Platform

HIAGO is a US-based startup that builds a civil engagement social network for cities and local governments. The startup integrates otherwise fragmented tools into a single platform to engage and communicate more efficiently with the public. Besides, the platform centralizes issue reporting and tracking to improve transparency in operations. To promote public feedback, HIAGO also provides kiosks for locations with high footfall. The startup, in effect, allows governments to interact with residents beyond the usual active groups to improve decision-making while digitizing the process.

quarano facilitates Pandemic Management

Founding Year: 2020
Location: Berlin, Germany
Funding: USD 113 000
Partner for: Contact Tracing

quarano is a German startup that offers an administration as a service solution for pandemic management. The startup digitizes documentation of COVID-19 infected patients and their primary contacts. For this, quarano uses self-reports from citizens in quarantine or isolation at home. Manual contact tracing and patient documentation are time- and resource-intensive during pandemic outbreaks. The startup automates these two processes and allows healthcare workers to shift their focus on helping the patients. quarano’s solution also improves the process transparency and makes the self-reports available to healthcare professionals in real-time, enabling better symptom management and personalized healthcare.

SecureCo provides Network & Data Security

Founding Year: 2020
Location: New York, US
Funding: USD 700 000
Partner for: Anonymous Communications, Zero-Trust Networks

US-based startup SecureCo offers multi-layer encrypted, randomized circuits to ensure data and network security. The startup integrates distributed mesh network architecture, Onion routing, and zero trust policies to achieve secure transmissions. This approach enables decoy data injection, improves the quality of service (QoS), and secures remote access, among others. Even though successful in corporate environments, virtual private network (VPN) architecture increases the chances of data leaks and man-in-the-middle attacks. On the contrary, the startup’s VPN alternative solution ensures network reliability and integrity using zero trust architecture. This allows military, emergency management, law enforcement, and critical infrastructure control agencies to fortify network data exchange against eavesdroppers and disruptors.

Indika AI enables AI-based Governance Systems

Founding Year: 2020
Location: Mumbai, India
Funding: USD 20 000
Partner for: Fraud Detection, Patient Triage, Crime Forecasts

Indika AI is an Indian startup that develops AI-based solutions to facilitate governance. The startup uses computer vision, natural language processing (NLP), and data-driven content moderation to create its solutions. For governments, the solutions include recognizing fraudulent benefit claims, triaging patients for emergency health services, and identifying policing heat maps to forecast the likelihood of crime occurrences. These services significantly reduce the time and effort required to do the same tasks manually while improving detection accuracy. In addition, the startup offers varying levels of autonomy systems for unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UACV) in military applications.

BLOK BIOSCIENCE provides Health Passports

Founding Year: 2020
Location: London, UK
Funding: undisclosed
Partner for: Privacy-First Health Records, COVID Tests

British startup BLOK BIOSCIENCE builds self-sovereign health passports. The startup’s smartphone app, BLOK Pass, allows users to store test results and vaccination records. BLOK BIOSCIENCE also provides a range of antibody, antigen, and RT-PCR tests in public spaces. BLOK Pass stores sensitive test results locally on the device instead of using a centralized database. This ensures that the data never leaves the users’ devices. To verify the data, the startup’s second app, BLOK Verify, interacts with BLOK Pass using an anonymous handshake, providing only a yes or no on whether the user can access the space. This is ideal for places that demand health checks at entry or exit points, like airports, public spaces, and public transport facilities, ensuring the safety of the general population.

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