{"id":1216992,"date":"2022-10-05T20:32:48","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T20:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/05\/startups-and-vcs-are-increasingly-embracing-the-federal-government-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T20:32:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T20:32:48","slug":"startups-and-vcs-are-increasingly-embracing-the-federal-government-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/05\/startups-and-vcs-are-increasingly-embracing-the-federal-government-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Startups and VCs are increasingly embracing the federal government. Here’s why"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On paper, the<\/span> federal government looks like an ideal customer for an enterprise startup: Its seemingly endless budget doesn\u2019t fluctuate with market conditions and it\u2019s always in the market for new tech. But it\u2019s a slog to break into, and for a long time, startups and VCs didn\u2019t seem to want to associate with it. That\u2019s rapidly changing.<\/p>\n

Over the last few years, and especially the most recent one, interest in working with and taking money from the U.S. government has exploded in the venture ecosystem.<\/p>\n

Meg Vorland, a co-founder at Dcode and partner at Dcode Capital, advises companies on how to pitch and land those contracts. Vorland told that the interest level in her firm\u2019s services has been night and day since launching in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On paper, the federal government looks like an ideal customer for an enterprise startup: Its seemingly endless budget doesn\u2019t fluctuate with market conditions and it\u2019s always in the market for new tech. But it\u2019s a slog to break into, and for a long time, startups and VCs didn\u2019t seem to want to associate with it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1216993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1216992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}