OpenGov

OpenGov
Privately held company
Founded 2012
Founder Zachary Bookman, Mike Rosengarten, Joe Lonsdale, Nate Levine, Dakin Sloss
Headquarters Redwood City, California
Products Budgeting, Transparency, Open Data, Reporting and Business Intelligence
Number of employees
 120
Website opengov.com

OpenGov is a Silicon Valley technology company that offers cloud-based software for public sector budgeting, reporting, and open data, powering more effective and accountable governments.[1]

History

OpenGov was founded in 2012 by Zachary Bookman, Nate Levine, Dakin Sloss, Mike Rosengarten and Joe Lonsdale. The company's founders and several advisors met while working with California Common Sense,[2] a non-profit non-partisan organization, which advocates open data and open government principles. Until 2013, the company was known as Delphi Solutions.

OpenGov acquired Ontodia, a leading developer of Open Data CKAN solutions, in April 2016. The acquisition has allowed OpenGov to build out its offerings, adding a managed open data CKAN solution and dashboards to the OpenGov Smart Government Platform.[3]

The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenGov, a government technology start-up whose CEO attended a tech summit at the White House in June 2017, is part owned by Thrive Capital — a venture firm run by Jared Kushner's brother, Joshua. OpenGov’s CEO, Zac Bookman was the only chief executive of a small firm among the 18 tech leaders to get a seat at the table with the president. According to the Wall Street Journal,[4] a staff member suggested OpenGov participate after learning about the company in previous congressional roles. In October 2017, OpenGov acquired government-serving tech company, Peak Democracy of Berkeley, Calif.[5][6]

Products

Through its Smart Government Platform, OpenGov offers a complete suite of software products, all designed to enable public agencies to make data-driven decisions, improve budgeting and planning, and inform elected officials and citizens. According to the company's website, the platform complements traditional accounting and enterprise resource planning systems by providing user-friendly access to data.[7]

OpenGov Intelligence

OpenGov Intelligence is a cloud-based reporting and data visualization solution that displays an individual government's financial and non-financial data, including its revenues and expenditures by fund, department, and type of account. The product lets departments track their spending against budget, monitor the financial status of capital improvement projects, and explore revenue trends. Users can view the data in a variety of interactive graphs and tables, as well as download or share the data through email or social media.[8]

OpenGov Budget Builder

OpenGov Budget Builder is a collaborative budgeting tool for governments. Individual departments collaborate on and submit budget proposals. Then, budget administrators, finance directors, and department heads access and evaluate proposals in one central location.

OpenGov Transparency

OpenGov Transparency visualizes government financial and nonfinancial data, allowing the public to drill down into graphs and tables. This product also includes saved views that answer common questions, annotations, maps, and performance dashboards. This product is like OpenGov Intelligence, but only consists of the public-facing capabilities.[9]

OpenGov Open Data

OpenGov Open Data, powered by enterprise-ready CKAN, delivers public data to civic developers, businesses, and citizens. This solution provides a hosted and managed CKAN instance with customizable portals.

Customers

As of December 2016, OpenGov serves over 1300 government entities[10] (including state agencies, city governments, school districts, and other special districts) in 47 states, Washington, D.C., and Canada.

Municipalities

The City of Palo Alto was OpenGov's first customer,[11] following a collaboration between the city and employees from nonprofit California Common Sense to launch a comprehensive open data platform.[12]

Following the City of Bell scandal involving the misappropriation of city funds, the Bell city government began using OpenGov in October 2013 as part of a larger initiative to rebuild trust between the city and residents.[13]

Other notable municipality customers include Washington, D.C.,[14] the City of San Diego,[15] the City of McKinney,[16] and the City of Newark.

Counties

Notable county customers of OpenGov include Allegheny County, PA,[17] Maricopa County, AZ,[18] and Anoka County, MN.[19]

States

Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel launched OhioCheckbook.com with OpenGov in early December 2014. Ohio was one of the first states in the country to use a searchable, machine readable checkbook for transactions. The Treasurer’s Office allows local governments to place their checkbook level data on OhioCheckbook.com at no cost to the agencies themselves. These local governments include cities, counties, townships, schools, library districts and other special districts.[20]

In 2016, the Colorado Department of the Treasury implemented OpenGov to explore and report on its debt obligations from a central system.[21]

Schools and Special Districts

Notable OpenGov school and special district customers include the Menlo Park City School District,[22] Cal Poly San Luis Obispo,[23] and the Jackson County Water and Sewerage Authority in Georgia.[24]

Board Members

OpenGov’s board consists of Co-Founder & Chairman Joe Lonsdale, Co-Founder & CEO Zac Bookman, Marc Andreessen of Andreessen Horowitz, and Cisco Executive Chairman John Chambers.[25]

Advisors

OpenGov is advised by experts from the technology, financial, and public service sectors.[26] Examples include:

Funding

OpenGov has raised $47 million from venture capital and angel investors.[27] A $3 million Series A round in 2012 included venture funds 8VC, Founder Collective, Valiant Capital, and "a number of high-profile angel investors."[28] In 2013, the company raised $4 million in further investment from 8VC and new investor Thrive Capital.[28]

On May 15, 2014, OpenGov announced a new $15 million Series B round of funding[29] including investments from Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, SGVC, Streamlined Ventures, Sway Ventures, and Thrive Capital.[30]

An additional $25 million Series B round in October 2015 included additional investments from Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, Thrive Capital, and Sway Ventures, as well as new investors Glynn Capital, Scott Cook, and Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures.[31] Marc Andreessen was also added to the board during the October 15, 2015 round.

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://opengov.com/about/
  2. ↑ "CACS Team". California Common Sense. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  3. ↑ Lunden, Ingrid. "OpenGov acquires Ontodia to add open-sourced data to its civic intelligence platform". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  4. ↑ https://www.wsj.com/articles/startup-that-got-a-seat-at-white-house-roundtable-is-part-owned-by-kushner-family-1500045800
  5. ↑ "Exclusive: OpenGov Acquires Peak Democracy, Aims for Citizen Feedback Across Product Lines". www.govtech.com. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  6. ↑ "OpenGov expands the meaning of transparency with latest acquisition". StateScoop. Retrieved 2018-06-19.
  7. ↑ "Government Financial Intelligence & Transparency | OpenGov". OpenGov. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  8. ↑ "Business Intelligence & Analytics for Government | OpenGov". OpenGov. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  9. ↑ "Government Transparency Solutions | OpenGov". OpenGov. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  10. ↑ "OpenGov Home Page". OpenGov. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Delphi builds data tool for Palo Alto". Silicon Valley Business Journal. October 5, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  12. ↑ "City of Palo Alto Continues Open Government Push with Launch of "Open Budget"". HighBeam Research. September 21, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  13. ↑ "City of Bell Launches Financial Visualization Platform – Cloud-Based OpenGov Platform Enables Bell to Build Trust By Inviting Residents to Explore City Financial Data". PRNewswire. October 29, 2013. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  14. ↑ "D.C. mayor unveils new budget portal, open gov officer post". StateScoop. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  15. ↑ Service, City News (2016-07-06). "San Diego open data portal goes live". 10News. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  16. ↑ "Dig into city finances in your bathrobe: McKinney has a new online tool | McKinney | Dallas News". Dallas News. 2015-07-29. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  17. ↑ "Allegheny County, PA Streamlines Management Reporting". OpenGov. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  18. ↑ "OpenGov's New Open Data Solution Is Up And Running in Denton, Texas". Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  19. ↑ "Five-Steps to Improve Management Reporting". OpenGov. 2016-05-31. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  20. ↑ "Office of the Ohio Treasurer". ohiotreasurer.gov. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  21. ↑ "OpenGov – Treasurer of the State of Colorado Finance and Budget Visualization". OpenGov. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  22. ↑ "http://district.mpcsd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=11&ViewID=047E6BE3-6D87-4130-8424-D8E4E9ED6C2A&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=3157&PageID=1". district.mpcsd.org. Retrieved 2016-12-15. External link in |title= (help)
  23. ↑ "Cal Poly Demonstrates Commitment to Open Communication Using New Budget Platform – OpenGov". OpenGov. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  24. ↑ 6, Bailey McCann / December; County, 2016 / Comments Off on Jackson; Budget, GA Taps OpenGov For Budgeting /; Economy; Featured; 2.0, Gov; Procurement. "Jackson County, GA Taps OpenGov For Budgeting | CivSource". Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  25. ↑ "OpenGov Advisors". OpenGov. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
  26. ↑ "OpenGov Advisors". OpenGov. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  27. ↑ "Company Profile – OpenGov". CrunchBase. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
  28. 1 2 "OpenGov Receives $4M for Transparency Software". SiliconANGLE. July 3, 2013. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  29. ↑ By Tom Cheredar, Venture Beat. "/ OpenGov has another $15M to show how governments spend your money." May 15, 2014. Retrieved May 16, 2014.
  30. ↑ By Balaji S. Srinivasan, Andreessen Horowitz. "/ OpenGov: The Startup Analyzing $50B in Spending." September 24, 2014. Retrieved June 23, 2014.
  31. ↑ Buhr, Sarah. "OpenGov Picks Up $25 Million More And Adds Marc Andreessen To The Board". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-12-15.
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