Somewhere between a city council meeting and a 200-page PDF that nobody asked for, trillions of dollars are hiding in plain sight. Most companies selling into government treat it like a treasure hunt with no map. They hire reps, cross their fingers, wait for an RFP to magically appear like a comet. And then they act surprised when the deal was decided 6 months before the PDF hit the portal.
NationGraph just raised $18M in Series A funding to make that chaos predictable. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Perplexity’s Fund, XYZ Venture Capital, Reach Capital, and angel investors. That brings total funding to $22.5M. Not bad for a company founded in 2024 that decided government sales did not need more guesswork, just better intelligence.
Congratulations to Kimia Hamidi, Co-founder & CEO, and Eden Ding, CTO & co-founder. Kimia Hamidi has been inside procurement before. He built Buyer, sold it to Ramp in 2021, then ran savings workflows. He has seen how money moves when nobody is watching. Eden Ding sharpened his edge at Citadel, where data is not a suggestion, it is survival. When you mix procurement scars with quant discipline, you get a product that does not blink.
NationGraph indexes roughly 110,000 government entities across about 4 million websites. Let that breathe for a second. Budgets. Meeting minutes. Contracts. RFPs. The stuff that is technically public but practically buried. NationGraph turns that noise into Signals, predictive intelligence that tells you where money is about to move. It automates public record requests, extracts the data, pipes it into your sales workflow. It maps contacts, validates emails, connects the dots before your competitor even knows there is a dot.
Croom Beatty of Menlo Ventures saw the angle and led the Series A. Smart capital backing a company that understands this simple truth: in public sector sales, timing is not luck, it is information asymmetry.
The funding will expand data types, strengthen the Signals engine, and refine the user experience. Translation: more surface area, sharper predictions, tighter execution. A system of intelligence paired with a system of action. Not just insight, but movement.
For companies selling into state, local, and education markets, this is the difference between reacting to an RFP and shaping the conversation before it becomes one. In a market where trillions flow through processes that have barely evolved, the edge goes to the team that reads the room before the room realizes it is being read.
NationGraph is not chasing government spend. It is graphing a nation’s intent and turning it into opportunity. And if you sell to the public sector, the question is no longer whether the data exists. It is whether you are listening closely enough to hear it whisper before it roars.
