Troy and Ben are saving a seat for GovWell's first designer.

The problem

Permits could take weeks of city hall visits.

GovWell makes AI permitting and licensing software for cities and counties.

The people

They were matched at a founder speed-dating event at Fractal Software, a New York startup incubator, and signed five government customers before writing any code.

• Troy LeCaire · CEO

  • First employee and chief of staff to the CEO at RippleMatch
  • Worked for two US senators from Wisconsin, his home state
  • Studied government at Cornell, then left a political philosophy program at NYU to start GovWell

• Ben Cohen · CTO

  • Software engineer at Uber and Amazon
  • Studied computer science at Princeton
  • Grew up helping his father, a general contractor, apply for hundreds of construction permits

So far

It says the platform cuts internal processing time by up to 95%.

$25M Series A led by Insight Partners, May 2026 ($35M total).

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