SmartGov is a software company based in Cambridge (UK) that aggregates and processes layers of socio-economic data to make the socio-economics of a given location understandable and analyzable.

History

The project behind SmartGov.co was started by Nathan Boublil, Elliott Verreault and Agastya Muthanna at the

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in November 2012. Government entities worldwide produce millions of spreadsheets of socio-economic data each year, increasingly released on hundreds of different statistical portals (

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). SmartGov develops software technology to automatically aggregate, process, standardize and geolocalize these datasets. SmartGov incorporated in England and Wales on July 29, 2013 as Stat.io Ltd. The directors listed are Nathan Boublil, Elliott Verreault and Michael Williamson.

Awards

SmartGov won

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Cambridge and

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comes to the UK (SVC2UK) in November 2012.

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sent the team to San Francisco in January 2013 to present the very first prototype of their technology. SmartGov was also awarded a Certificate of Honour from San Francisco mayor

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., named best Social Enterprise by

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's LH Forum 2013 and best New Financial Technology by NACUE. SmartGov has received grants from the

, UnLtd, the

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and the

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. On December 9, 2013, it was announced that SmartGov would join the first cohort of Microsoft Ventures in London.Forbes
"Microsoft Expands Global Startup Accelerator Program In The UK"
Dec.12th, 2013

References

External links

Official website
British companies established in 2012 Companies based in Cambridge