What's happening at Pavilion
Catch up on the latest news about Pavilion, including press, product updates, partnerships, and more.
Latest press
Press
January 3, 2024
Pavilion recognized as a GovTech 100 company
Pavilion is honored to be recognized by Government Technology magazine as one of the top 100 companies making an impact for government agencies across the United States.
Press
August 15, 2023
Euna Solutions Announces Technology Partnership with Pavilion to Fast Track Procurement for State and Local Government
Press
June 1, 2023
Painless Procurement?
This episode of Voices in Local Government focuses on more efficient ways for local governments to buy the products and services they need to better serve their communities.
Press
June 1, 2023
Five minutes with ... Mariel Reed
Get to know Pavilion cofounder and CEO Mariel Reed in an interview with Supply Chain Digital.
Press
May 15, 2023
Point Procurement at the Goal, With Mariel Reed
We examine the ever-evolving relationship between state/local procurement and finance.
Press
May 9, 2023
Why you should consider selling to governments and how to do it well
As the macroeconomic environment becomes more challenging, public servants are an attractive new category of buyer for startups.
Press
April 3, 2023
A new look at local government procurement with Mariel Reed
In this episode of the Amazing Cities and Towns Podcast, sponsored by Bearing Advisors, Jim Hunt interviews Mariel Reed, the Co-Founder and CEO of Pavilion. Listen to a candid conversation about getting more private businesses working on local government and community issues with technology, products and services, and much more.
Press
March 13, 2023
Improving Purchasing by Empowering Public Servants — ICYMI
Pavilion CEO and co-founder Mariel Reed talks about how government and technology are the two most important tools for improving lives at scale, and her goal of improving public purchasing for state and local agencies.
Press
March 3, 2023
Why You Should Join Pavilion
"Why You Should Join" is a monthly newsletter highlighting early-stage startups on track to become generational companies. In this newsletter, Stanford students Eric Zhou and Usman Hanif share what makes Pavilion unique in the government technology space, the problem Pavilion is solving, a look into the Pavilion team, and how Pavilion is positioned to make massive positive impact at scale.
Press
February 24, 2023
This Startup Wants To Bring New Efficiency To Government In 2023
While it’s not something your average American pays much attention to, government procurement is an overlooked industry that affects virtually all citizens, yet it remains largely offline.
Press
February 7, 2023
As a founder, you’re always Communicator in Chief
In a special Strategy Session episode of Masters of Scale, four entrepreneurs sat down with Reid Hoffman to ask their burning questions about strategic communication — the art of storytelling about your company, your product, and yourself.
Press
January 30, 2023
In Her Own Words: Mariel Reed mixes public procurement and parenting
The pandemic changed our relationships to work and our families. For government technology entrepreneur Mariel Reed, becoming a parent while starting a business during Covid-19 helped her establish a healthier relationship with her work and redefine what it means to build a legacy.
Press
January 20, 2023
Pavilion Adds Diversity Filters for Cooperative Contracts
The new “diversity filters” from Pavilion can help users of cooperative contracts find more local and diverse businesses and encourage national suppliers to work with those businesses, among other tasks.
Press
January 20, 2023
Government Coins: Season 4 | Ep. 1 - What is a Shareable Contract with Mariel Reed
Mariel Reed is co-founder and CEO of Pavilion, a venture-backed marketplace for state and local public procurement. Pavilion enables public servants to save time and money by purchasing from suppliers that have been pre-qualified by other public entities, and helps reduce the cost of selling into the $2T state and local public sector for businesses.
Product updates
Product Updates
March 13, 2024
Contract Sources: See contracts from pre-approved coops & agencies
Now, everyone from your entity can find contracts from your go-to purchasing cooperatives, states, and local entities first for faster, compliant purchasing.
Product Updates
March 8, 2024
Piggybacked Contracts: Track contracts you’ve used in one place
With our new Piggybacked Contracts feature you can track contracts you’ve used before to quickly purchase from them again.
Product Updates
January 11, 2024
Projects: Bringing departments & procurement teams together
Introducing a common workspace where you can save contracts, shortlist suppliers, and share notes.
Product Updates
December 13, 2023
New features to bring end user and procurement teams together
Simplify collaboration between end users and procurement teams using Pavilion's new features, streamlining project management and making contract sharing hassle-free.
Product Updates
October 19, 2023
New features to supercharge procurement collaboration!
View Microsoft documents within Pavilion, CC your team members when you message suppliers, and search smarter with new filters.
Product Updates
September 11, 2023
New features to help your team save even more time
Key contract and supplier information at a glance, Pavilion within Bonfire, and an easy way to share Pavilion with colleagues.
Product Updates
August 10, 2023
A more powerful search experience across even more contracts
We’ve been cooking up lots of exciting new features, and we can’t wait to share it with you. Now at your fingertips: a more powerful contract search experience – across even more contracts!
Product Updates
February 17, 2023
A more personalized experience on Pavilion
Now public buyers with accounts on Pavilion will have a more purpose-built experience—seeing more useful, tailored information that matches your contract discovery needs, right from an updated homepage.
Product Updates
January 24, 2023
Making it easier to find and buy from certified diverse and small businesses with Pavilion
Starting for public entities in Oregon, Texas, California, Virginia, Florida, and Arizona, Pavilion has made it easier than ever to see state and federal business credentials for suppliers alongside shareable contract information, all in one place.
Company news
News
April 5, 2024
Thousands of public contracts now available on Pavilion from the OpenGov community
Public servants can now purchase more efficiently with access to thousands of contracts on Pavilion from the OpenGov community. This partnership improves the experience of entities who use both the OpenGov Procurement Suite and Pavilion, while helping the broader public procurement community gain access to more available contracts and suppliers.
News
January 8, 2024
Search Pavilion directly within OpenGov
OpenGov and Pavilion have partnered to provide OpenGov customers with access to Pavilion’s network of shareable contracts directly from the OpenGov Procurement suite.
News
November 30, 2023
How we moved off of OpenAI for semantic search in only 2 weeks
How the Pavilion Engineering team deployed and evaluated an open source alternative to OpenAI's text embeddings in 2 weeks along with some helpful tips and tricks we learned along the way.
News
July 25, 2023
Welcoming Kwasi Adu
Kwasi is Pavilion's newest engineer. Read his interview to learn about his passion for positive impact, love for good company and food, and one of his favorite sci-fi novels.
News
June 22, 2023
Welcoming Govind Wakhlu
Govind Wakhlu joins the Pavilion team as the Vice President of Product and Design. He brings expertise from being a product leader at Turo, Meta, and Doma, along with his time as a founder of his ventures.
News
February 14, 2023
Welcoming Katie Wong
Katie Wong joins Pavilion's engineering team. She previously worked for Snapchat as a full-stack engineer and graduated from USC Viterbi School of Engineering . In this interview, learn about Katie's favorite music and hobbies.
News
January 16, 2023
Welcoming Vanessa Lauf
Vanessa Lauf is Pavilion’s Head of Platform Data. She will lead the team in acquiring contract and supplier data to support Pavilion’s growth. Read more to learn about Vanessa’s passion for impact, cooking, and reading.
News
January 12, 2023
Welcoming Garret Meier
Garret Meier is Pavilion’s newest software engineer. Prior to joining Pavilion, they were a full-stack, senior software engineer at Culture Biosciences and Mixmax.
News
January 4, 2023
Introducing Pavilion
We’re excited to introduce an updated look and a new name: Pavilion. Formerly known as CoProcure.
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News
November 7, 2022
Welcoming Lillian Zhao
Lillian Zhao will help Pavilion build playbooks driving our go-to-market efforts with public entities. She is a proud graduate of Dartmouth College, and is an avid reader, as well as photographer! Read more to learn about Lillian’s path to Pavilion and hobbies!
News
October 10, 2022
Welcoming Shane Russell
Shane’s experience in developing software spans many sectors including eCommerce, healthcare, and entertainment. He has also worked for the United States Digital Service in building the system managing all veteran legal appeals. Read to learn about Shane’s love for swing dance, meditating, and watching football.
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News
September 23, 2022
Welcoming Ryan Kirkpatrick
With his background in education and customer onboarding, Ryan will help guide Pavilion users and design a delightful onboarding experience. Read more to learn about Ryan's passion for hockey, vinyl records, and tennis.
News
September 16, 2022
Welcoming Monica Yao
With her experience in EdTech, Monica will work on all parts of Pavilion’s software product building new features, systems, and improvements. We sat down with Monica to learn how she came to join the team, her favorite books, and her motto.
News
August 15, 2022
Pavilion and Bonfire announce partnership to offer the industry’s most comprehensive collection of active shareable contracts
A new partnership between Pavilion and Bonfire aims to help government procurement teams discover shareable contract opportunities to save time and money.
News
July 31, 2022
Welcoming Dion Sanchez
Dion comes from ed-tech and will use his creative and strategic thinking to drive Pavilion's top-line metrics and government user engagement. In this interview, learn about Dion's hobbies, goals, and theme song.
News
July 24, 2022
Welcoming Logan Davis
Get to know our first engineering manager, Logan Davis! In this interview, learn about Logan's passion for technology, teamwork, and journey to Pavilion.
News
July 22, 2022
OpenGov and Pavilion partner to give agencies unprecedented access to contracts across the country
Pavilion and OpenGov are thrilled to announce their partnership, which will provide OpenGov Procurement’s customers access to Pavilion’s marketplace of shareable contracts accessible directly from the OpenGov Procurement Suite.
News
July 21, 2022
Welcoming Chloe Dichoso
With a background in education and health care administration, Chloe will captain our company events, onboarding processes, and office operations. We sat down with Chloe to learn more about her reasons for joining Pavilion, hobbies, and favorite quotes.
News
May 10, 2022
Welcoming Felix Lau
Before joining Pavilion, Felix was a full-cycle recruiter at Pinterest and Tubi. Felix is a Bay Area native, an adventurous foodie, and a soon-to-be dog-dad.
News
March 3, 2022
Announcing Pavilion's $22M Series A
Pavilion has raised a $22M Series A led by Forerunner Ventures, with participation from existing investors Leadout Capital and Neo, as well as marketplace and ecommerce founders we admire: Marco Zappacosta, founder of Thumbtack; Dan Lewis, founder of Convoy; and Katrina Lake, founder of Stitch Fix.
News
February 25, 2022
Welcoming Siyuan Tu
Prior to joining Pavilion, Siyuan designed software tools at Netflix and Autodesk that empower creative studios around the world. With her background in human-computer interaction and operations research, she seeks out ways to simplify complex systems and make information more accessible.
News
February 21, 2022
Welcoming Carmen Ren
Carmen joins Pavilion with a diverse background in education, marketing, sales, and operations. At Barnard College in NYC, she studied Sociology and English, with a concentration in Creative Writing. She believes her interests and experience align around people and stories, and she’s excited to continue her professional journey at Pavilion, where she’ll get to draw on her myriad of experiences to further Pavilion’s own story.
News
August 30, 2021
Welcoming Jacob Cavallo
Jacob hails from the fast paced, high-stakes world of on-demand food delivery. Over the last 6 years, he’s developed demand forecasting models and optimized driver and delivery scheduling — all in the pursuit of delivering hot pizza.
News
August 13, 2021
Pavilion raises a $2.4M seed round to build search for shareable public contracts
With deep gratitude, we’re pleased to announce that Pavilion has raised an additional $2.4M in seed funding. This round was led by Neo and joined by existing investor Leadout Capital, as well as several strategic angel investors. This additional capital will ensure that during these turbulent times, we can stay laser-focused on our goal of building a marketplace for shareable public contracts.
News
January 11, 2021
Welcoming Becca Blazak
Becca got her start with Code for America. Since then, she’s partnered with state-level government in Australia to improve legal aid technology.
News
August 31, 2020
Welcoming Yvonne Chen
Yvonne graduated from UCLA with a degree in CS, having led groups like ACM@UCLA focused on increasing technology accessibility. She has interned at Facebook on the Civic Integrity team, working on identifying coordinated harassment against at-risk individuals, and has also interned at Stripe on the Alternative Payments team. She loves working across the full stack from frontend UI to data, and strongly believes in working in technology for social good.
News
April 27, 2020
Welcoming Jessica Rosenfield
Jessica brings experience in backend web development, data engineering, and bioinformatics to Pavilion. Previously, she worked on data pipelines and web services for GRAIL, a cancer detection company.
News
March 21, 2020
Welcoming Mark Rossetti
In his first week, Mark has helped to launch Pavilion’s COVID-19 response, which supports government buyers across the country to purchase PPE and other critical response supplies. Over the last several years, Mark has used software to solve problems of the public interest, from supporting small business development with the City of Long Beach, CA to helping people clear old criminal records to building software for the treatment of opioid addiction.
News
December 12, 2019
Welcoming Andrew Jung
Andrew is a serial entrepreneur and varsity athlete. He started his first business, a food delivery startup, as a senior at Middlebury College, where he studied Computer Science and Economics. Before joining Pavilion, he also started another company and completed a Masters in Entrepreneurship from the University of Washington.
News
October 29, 2019
Alicia Chen, former Dropbox engineering leader, joins Pavilion as cofounder
Alicia Chen has joined Pavilion as cofounder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Alicia studied computer science at Stanford and started her career at Microsoft. She joined Dropbox as the company’s first female engineer, and went on to become one of the company’s top-rated engineering managers. Most recently, Alicia worked on products supporting improvements across education and criminal justice at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
News
May 16, 2019
Pavilion raises $1.5M to build a marketplace for shareable contracts
We're thrilled to announce that we raised $1.5M for Pavilion, led by Leadout Capital and joined by Neo. We’re excited to begin working with Alison Rosenthal of Leadout and Ali Partovi of Neo, who bring extensive operating expertise and share our vision to improve how local governments spend $1.5T each year.