About Civic Roundtable
Civic Roundtable is an AI-powered government operations platform built to help public servants coordinate mission-critical work across agencies, programs, and partner organizations. Trusted by public servants at 4,000+ organizations across all 50 states, Civic Roundtable provides a secure workspace for collaboration, knowledge sharing, stakeholder coordination, and AI-powered workflows across complex public sector initiatives. The platform is used for initiatives including emergency management, homelessness response, elections, economic development, workforce programs, and public health coordination. Civic Roundtable combines collaboration workspaces, searchable knowledge management, ecosystem CRM, forms, documents, and AI-powered automation in a single platform designed specifically for government operations. Headquartered in Boston and built in AWS GovCloud, Civic Roundtable is backed by General Catalyst and emerged from the Harvard Innovation Labs.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$5M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Madeleine Smith
Former Mark43 employee; pursued a dual degree at Harvard Kennedy School and HBS; co-founded Civic Roundtable in 2022 alongside Austin Boral and Josh Seiden.
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Austin Boral
MPP/MBA Harvard 2023; met Madeleine Smith at Harvard Kennedy School and HBS; co-founded Civic Roundtable with a focus on public sector collaboration.
LinkedInJosh Seiden
Former Mark43 colleague of Madeleine Smith; recruited to round out the Civic Roundtable founding team; focuses on government technology deployment.
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.