{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-compete-db-md-js","path":"/compare/starbridge/ai/md/","result":{"data":{"doc":{"id":"0cb5dab4-dd99-524a-99ad-eb7e7dccb3f0","title":"Starbridge","createdAt":"2026-10-28T23:32:00.000Z","properties":{"Domain":{"value":"https://starbridge.ai"},"Product":{"value":{"name":"Platform"}},"Market":{"value":{"name":"Commercial"}},"Status":{"value":{"name":"watch"}},"Summary":{"value":"AI-native GTM intelligence platform helping B2B teams sell to local government, K-12, and higher education by surfacing early buying signals, automating outreach, and accelerating procurement."},"Tag":{"value":"Win more public-sector contracts"},"Funding":{"value":"53.8"},"Founded":{"value":"2024"},"Team":{"value":"90"},"Details":{"value":"Founded 2024 by Justin Wenig (ex-Coursedog co-founder). Raised $53.8M total: $10M seed and $42M Series A (Oct 2025) led by Craft Ventures, with Owl Ventures, Commonweal Ventures, Autotech Ventures. Team size undisclosed, actively hiring. AI-native GTM intelligence for B2B teams selling to public sector (GovTech, EdTech). Sales-led: demo-gated, undisclosed subscription pricing by user count and data breadth, plus outbound GTM agency service. No free trial; top 10 intent accounts lead magnet. Core closed-source; open-source MCP plugin on GitHub (starbridge-ai/plugin.mcp). Not product-led, not high-traffic, not high-social. Differentiators: contract vehicle access, FOIA automation, RFP finder."},"Features_List":{"value":"- Early buying signals and account scoring\n- Contact and account enrichment\n- Vendor spend intelligence\n- AI RFP finder and proposal writer\n- Existing contract vehicle access\n- Native Salesforce and HubSpot integrations\n- AI chat assistant"},"Critical":{"value":"- Founded by Justin Wenig, previously co-founded Coursedog\n- $42M Series A led by Craft Ventures, October 2025\n- Contract vehicle access lets vendors sell through existing government contracts and skip RFPs\n- Parallel.ai Task API scrapes contacts from thousands of government staff directories\n- Bypasses LinkedIn, often outdated for public sector staff"},"Signals___1st_Party":{"value":"IN: Bidirectional Salesforce and HubSpot sync with active-employment flags\nOUT: No website visitor ID, product usage or warehouse ingestion, marketing automation, ads, chat/support, customer success, or sales engagement platform connections"},"Signals___2nd_Party":{"value":"IN: none\nOUT: No open source, social, community, review sites, events, or commerce signals. MCP plugin is output only"},"Signals___3rd_Party":{"value":"IN: Automated FOIA requests (competitor contracts, pricing, expirations), FPDS/USASpending, board minutes, agency YouTube channels, Parallel.ai directory scraping\nOUT: No commercial intent providers, technographics, or LinkedIn listening. Only 320k public entities"},"Signals___Custom":{"value":"IN: REST API (API key), Zapier trigger, webhooks, MCP connectors (Cursor, Cline, Goose)\nOUT: API is query/extract only. No custom signal push in. No CSV or Google Sheets ingestion"},"P360___Enrichment":{"value":"IN: 98% email accuracy, 2% bounce (14k-email test), 100+ public-sector account attributes, FOIA competitor spend and contract expirations, job change tracking, CRM hygiene\nOUT: 320k entities only. No premium phone enrichment. No AI quality-control layer. Accuracy self-reported"},"P360___AI_powered":{"value":"IN: Parallel.ai web agents, vector semantic matching, daily AI account ranking, AI positioning briefs\nOUT: No AI identity matching across handles or sources. Depends on third-party Parallel.ai"},"P360___Identity":{"value":"IN: Direct crawling of government directories, in-seat verification with bounce checks, inactive flagging, CRM dedupe, multi-provider waterfall\nOUT: No cross-source identity resolution or merge review. Directory record, not unified person profile"},"Auto___Combine":{"value":"IN: Combines FOIA/spend data, web signals, and CRM data via semantic vector matching\nOUT: Narrow universe, public-sector web signals only"},"Auto___Score":{"value":"IN: Plain-language custom scoring over 100+ attributes, AI RFP Finder scores bids on fit, region, win likelihood\nOUT: Account-level only. No first-party engagement scoring"},"Auto___AI_Message":{"value":"IN: Signal-triggered suggested copy with each lead (board meetings, grants)\nOUT: none"},"Auto___AI_Research":{"value":"IN: \"Ask Starbridge\" agent over signals, contracts, FOIA docs, custom prompts, Chrome extension, MCP into Claude/ChatGPT/Cursor\nOUT: Limited to public-sector data. No prospect product, community, or web data"},"Signals":{"value":"1st Party: Salesforce and HubSpot bidirectional sync, active-employment flags. No visitor, product usage, warehouse, marketing automation, or sales engagement inputs.\n2nd Party: none. MCP plugin (GitHub) is output to Claude/ChatGPT only.\n3rd Party: FOIA requests, FPDS/USASpending, board minutes, YouTube, Parallel.ai directory scraping across 320k public entities. No commercial intent data.\nCustom: REST API, Zapier trigger, webhooks, MCP connectors (Cursor, Cline, Goose). No documented inbound custom signals."},"Identity":{"value":"Identity: Crawls government, school district, and university directories and board minutes. Bypasses LinkedIn. Cross-references public documents, multi-provider waterfall, continuous in-seat verification with bounce checks, CRM dedupe and inactive flags. No cross-source person merging.\nEnrichment: 98% email accuracy, 2% bounce (14k test), 320k+ entities, 100+ attributes (budgets, enrollment, grants, AI adoption), FOIA/FPDS spend and contract expirations, job change tracking, automated CRM hygiene.\nAI: Parallel.ai Task API web agents, vector semantic matching, daily account scoring, AI positioning briefs."},"Automation":{"value":"Workbench: \"My Feed\" inbox, \"Buyer Pages\".\nWorkflow: \"Bridges\" AI-agent workflows with custom web signals; CRM sync, Slack, outreach sequences.\nAlerts: Real-time to feed, email digest, Slack with why-now context and verified contact.\nCombine: FOIA, spend, web, and CRM data via vector database.\nScore: Plain-language scoring over 100+ attributes; AI RFP Finder scores bids.\nAI Message: Signal-based suggested copy.\nAI Research: \"Ask Starbridge\" chat agent, Chrome extension, MCP."},"Support___Systems":{"value":"IN: Email support, Mintlify help center, \"Ask Starbridge\" in-app assistant, open-source MCP plugin\nOUT: No live chat, ticketing portal, or status page evident"},"Support___Content":{"value":"IN: Role-based docs (Consumers, Builders, Admins), Starbridge University, REST API and webhook docs, prompt library, admin videos, release notes\nOUT: unsure"},"Support___Community":{"value":"IN: none\nOUT: No forums, template library, or user profiles. Referral program only"}}}},"pageContext":{"id":"0cb5dab4-dd99-524a-99ad-eb7e7dccb3f0"}},"staticQueryHashes":[]}