We are honored to be recognized by Government Technology magazine as one of the top 100 companies making an impact for government agencies

Euna Solutions partners with Pavilion to integrate Euna Procure with the platform, streamlining public sector procurement.

This episode of Voices in Local Government focuses on more efficient ways for local governments to buy the products and services they need to better serve their communities.

Get to know Pavilion cofounder and CEO Mariel Reed in an interview with Supply Chain Digital.

We examine the ever-evolving relationship between state/local procurement and finance.

As the macroeconomic environment becomes more challenging, public servants are an attractive new category of buyer for startups.

Listen to Jim Hunt interview Mariel Reed on the Amazing Cities and Towns Podcast, sponsored by Bearing Advisors. They discuss how private businesses can work on local government issues using technology.

Pavilion CEO and co-founder Mariel Reed talks about how government and technology are the two most important tools for improving lives at scale, and her goal of improving public purchasing for state and local agencies.

"Why You Should Join" is a monthly newsletter highlighting early-stage startups on track to become generational companies. In this newsletter, Stanford students Eric Zhou and Usman Hanif share what makes Pavilion unique in the government technology space, the problem Pavilion is solving, a look into the Pavilion team, and how Pavilion is positioned to make massive positive impact at scale.

While it’s not something your average American pays much attention to, government procurement is an overlooked industry that affects virtually all citizens, yet it remains largely offline.

Four entrepreneurs asked about strategic communication in a Masters of Scale episode.

Learn from Pavilion CEO Mariel Reed as she explains how becoming a parent while launching a business during COVID-19 helped her build a healthier work-life balance and redefine what it means to build a legacy.

The new “diversity filters” from Pavilion can help users of cooperative contracts find more local and diverse businesses and encourage national suppliers to work with those businesses, among other tasks.

Discover how Mariel Reed, CEO of Pavilion, is helping to reduce the cost of selling into the $2T state and local public sector for businesses.

Public entities in New York can now quickly discover single-award contracts to satisfy their piggybacking compliance requirements.

Now, everyone from your entity can find contracts from your go-to purchasing cooperatives, states, and local entities first.

With our new Piggybacked Contracts feature you can track contracts you’ve used before to quickly purchase from them again.

Introducing a common workspace where you can save contracts, shortlist suppliers, and share notes.

Simplify collaboration between end users and procurement teams using Pavilion's new features

View Microsoft documents within Pavilion, CC your team members when you message suppliers, and search smarter with new filters.

Key contract and supplier information at a glance, Pavilion within Bonfire, and an easy way to share Pavilion with colleagues.

Now public buyers with accounts on Pavilion have a more purpose-built experience.

Starting for public entities in Oregon, Texas, California, Virginia, Florida, and Arizona, Pavilion has made it easier than ever to see state and federal business credentials for suppliers alongside shareable contract information, all in one place.

Learn how we are staying true to our mission of serving public entities at no cost.

Public servants can now purchase more efficiently with access to thousands of contracts on Pavilion from the OpenGov community.

OpenGov customers can now access Pavilion’s network of shareable contracts directly from the OpenGov Procurement suite. 

See how the Pavilion Engineering team deployed and evaluated an open source alternative to OpenAI's text embeddings in 2 weeks

Govind Wakhlu joins the Pavilion team as the Vice President of Product and Design. He brings expertise from being a product leader at Turo, Meta, and Doma, along with his time as a founder of his ventures.

Vanessa Lauf is Pavilion’s Head of Platform Data. She will lead the team in acquiring contract and supplier data to support Pavilion’s growth. Read more to learn about Vanessa’s passion for impact, cooking, and reading.

Garret Meier is Pavilion’s newest software engineer. Prior to joining Pavilion, they were a full-stack, senior software engineer at Culture Biosciences and Mixmax.

We’re excited to introduce an updated look and a new name: Pavilion. Formerly known as CoProcure.

Lillian Zhao will help Pavilion build playbooks driving our go-to-market efforts with public entities. She is a proud graduate of Dartmouth College, and is an avid reader, as well as photographer! Read more to learn about Lillian’s path to Pavilion and hobbies!

Shane’s experience in developing software spans many sectors including eCommerce, healthcare, and entertainment. He has also worked for the United States Digital Service in building the system managing all veteran legal appeals. Read to learn about Shane’s love for swing dance, meditating, and watching football.

With his background in education and customer onboarding, Ryan will help guide Pavilion users and design a delightful onboarding experience. Read more to learn about Ryan's passion for hockey, vinyl records, and tennis.

With her experience in EdTech, Monica will work on all parts of Pavilion’s software product building new features, systems, and improvements. We sat down with Monica to learn how she came to join the team, her favorite books, and her motto. 

A new partnership between Pavilion and Bonfire aims to help government procurement teams discover shareable contract opportunities to save time and money. 

Dion comes from ed-tech and will use his creative and strategic thinking to drive Pavilion's top-line metrics and government user engagement. In this interview, learn about Dion's hobbies, goals, and theme song.

Get to know our first engineering manager, Logan Davis! In this interview, learn about Logan's passion for technology, teamwork, and journey to Pavilion.

Pavilion and OpenGov are thrilled to announce their partnership, which will provide OpenGov Procurement’s customers access to Pavilion’s marketplace of shareable contracts accessible directly from the OpenGov Procurement Suite.

With a background in education and health care administration, Chloe will captain our company events, onboarding processes, and office operations. We sat down with Chloe to learn more about her reasons for joining Pavilion, hobbies, and favorite quotes. 

Before joining Pavilion, Felix was a full-cycle recruiter at Pinterest and Tubi. Felix is a Bay Area native, an adventurous foodie, and a soon-to-be dog-dad.

Pavilion raised $22M Series A led by Forerunner, joined by existing investors and marketplace founders.

Prior to joining Pavilion, Siyuan designed software tools at Netflix and Autodesk that empower creative studios around the world. With her background in human-computer interaction and operations research, she seeks out ways to simplify complex systems and make information more accessible.

Jacob hails from the fast paced, high-stakes world of on-demand food delivery. Over the last 6 years, he’s developed demand forecasting models and optimized driver and delivery scheduling — all in the pursuit of delivering hot pizza.

With deep gratitude, we’re pleased to announce that Pavilion has raised an additional $2.4M in seed funding. This round was led by Neo and joined by existing investor Leadout Capital, as well as several strategic angel investors. This additional capital will ensure that during these turbulent times, we can stay laser-focused on our goal of building a marketplace for shareable public contracts.

Becca got her start with Code for America. Since then, she’s partnered with state-level government in Australia to improve legal aid technology.

Yvonne graduated from UCLA with a degree in CS, having led groups like ACM@UCLA focused on increasing technology accessibility. She has interned at Facebook on the Civic Integrity team, working on identifying coordinated harassment against at-risk individuals, and has also interned at Stripe on the Alternative Payments team. She loves working across the full stack from frontend UI to data, and strongly believes in working in technology for social good.

Jessica brings experience in backend web development, data engineering, and bioinformatics to Pavilion. Previously, she worked on data pipelines and web services for GRAIL, a cancer detection company.

In his first week, Mark has helped to launch Pavilion’s COVID-19 response, which supports government buyers across the country to purchase PPE and other critical response supplies. Over the last several years, Mark has used software to solve problems of the public interest, from supporting small business development with the City of Long Beach, CA to helping people clear old criminal records to building software for the treatment of opioid addiction.

Andrew is a serial entrepreneur and varsity athlete. He started his first business, a food delivery startup, as a senior at Middlebury College, where he studied Computer Science and Economics. Before joining Pavilion, he also started another company and completed a Masters in Entrepreneurship from the University of Washington.

Alicia Chen, former Dropbox CTO, joins Pavilion as cofounder and CTO. She studied CS at Stanford and has experience in education and criminal justice.

We're thrilled to announce that we raised $1.5M for Pavilion, led by Leadout Capital and joined by Neo. We’re excited to begin working with Alison Rosenthal of Leadout and Ali Partovi of Neo, who bring extensive operating expertise and share our vision to improve how local governments spend $1.5T each year.