Startups in Residence

Startups in Residence is a cohort program that Mariel Reed — founder of CoProcure — helped scale before starting her own company. Per her wiki page, the program acts “as a bridge between startup problem-solvers and cities,” pairing startups with municipal partners. It sits squarely in Kyle’s City Building / govtech cluster: the same problem space as Reed’s later work on city Procurement and turning one-off government contracts into recurring ones.

Context: STiR (Startup in Residence) is a government-technology program, originally launched by the City of San Francisco’s Office of Civic Innovation, that matches early-stage startups with government agencies to co-develop solutions to public-sector problems.

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• Mariel Reed — the cohort program she helped scale, bridging startup problem-solvers and cities, before founding CoProcure.