We’re building something big.

Everyone in the U.S. relies on government services.  Procurement is the lever that directly affects the speed and quality of those services, turning $2 trillion in taxpayer dollars into meals served at schools, electric mail trucks for USPS, and medical equipment for hospitals. By helping local and state governments collaborate and share their work, we can deliver better, faster services for all.

Have you ever rhymed “softball uniforms” with “citizen engagement platforms”?

We value service to the greater good.

We’re a rapidly growing team that’s passionate about technology for social impact. Our founders and team have a mix of expertise in scaling venture-backed tech companies and working with governments.

We’re super collaborative.

Ask us about:

• Launching a new government partnership in under a week.
• How we champion collaboration among our users.
• Solving crosswords as a team.

We love to learn.

Ask us about:

• Our research with users from Orange County, California to Orange County, Florida.
• Engineers representing our team at conferences.
• Teaching each other about close-up magic, dog training, and building vans.

We're unabashedly earnest.

Ask us about:

• How we celebrate our wins in #shoutouts.
• What we do at Thursday Time.
• How we use our musical talents.

Our Team

We’re quickly building a talented, mission-driven team.

Mariel Reed

Cofounder & CEO

Mariel (“Mari”) fell in love with public procurement during her time as a public servant with the San Francisco Mayor’s Office. Before joining local government, she was an early employee at Coursera, an edtech startup. Mari grew up on Cape Cod, MA, and her first job was a pirate (“Mad Dog”). She speaks Mandarin, loves making (and eating) gluten free desserts, hiking, terrible puns, and being a new mom.

Mariel Reed

Cofounder & CEO

Alicia Chen

Cofounder & CTO

Alicia has worked on everything from display drivers to desktop infrastructure to web and data products. She was an early engineer at Dropbox, where her non-technical projects included the intern program and DEI initiatives. At the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, she worked on economic opportunity, criminal justice reform, and education. Outside of work, Alicia likes to read, craft, rock climb, and hang out with her kids.

Alicia Chen

Cofounder & CTO

Abby Krishnan

Engineering

Abby graduated from UT Austin with a degree in CS and a certificate in Public Policy. Abby loves finding ways to uphold democratic values in both civic life and technology. At UT, she started the Texas Civic Tech Project, an organization for STEM students interested in tech policy and spent most of her free time registering first-time voters. She has previously worked at Affirm on the Financial Products team and Facebook on the Civic Integrity team. Abby also enjoys cooking, reading, hiking, and dabbling in creative short fiction.

Abby Krishnan

Engineering

Andrew Jung

Business Ops

Andrew studied CS and Econ at Middlebury College, where he also started his first business, a food delivery startup. After several years in finance, he launched another company while completing a Masters in Business. At CoProcure, Andrew focuses on designing and implementing the tools and partnerships that make CoProcure's cooperative contracts more accessible to governments across the country. Andrew enjoys all racquet sports, traveling, and contributing as a reluctant baritone on the CoProcure cover band.

Andrew Jung

Business Ops

Becca Blazak

Partnerships & Community

Becca has spent her career working in Civic Tech. She got her start with Code for America, where she saw the impact of improving technology for local governments. Since then, she’s partnered with state-level government in Australia to improve legal aid technology and helped build a non-profit organization that activates tech workers and companies on important civic issues. When she’s not working, you can find Becca running around Lake Merritt, doing yoga, and trying new recipes in the kitchen.

Becca Blazak

Partnerships & Community

Carmen Ren

Business Ops

Carmen comes to CoProcure with a diverse array of experiences. After graduating from Barnard College with a double major in English and Sociology, she served in the Peace Corps in Uganda teaching English education. Since then she’s spent time at startups in marketing, sales, program management, and operations. She thrives on optimizing processes and chatting about her Tibetan Terrier, Kylo. Her interests include rock climbing, pottery, and teaching Kylo new tricks!

Carmen Ren

Business Ops

Felix Lau

Recruiting

Felix graduated from SJSU with a degree in Business. Prior to CoProcure, he was a full-cycle recruiter coming from companies like Pinterest and Tubi. He is a huge foodie and always down to try new things no matter how crazy it seems! As a future German Shepherd owner, Felix would appreciate any tips and tricks on how to best prepare for that day to come.

Felix Lau

Recruiting

Jacob Cavallo

Business Ops

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. Jacob is passionate about data analytics, startups, government, and public interest - and with that in mind, CoProcure seemed like a perfect fit!

Jacob Cavallo

Business Ops

Jessica Rosenfield

Engineering

Jessica is a software engineer with experience in backend web development, data engineering, and bioinformatics. Prior to joining CoProcure, she worked on data pipelines and web services for GRAIL, a cancer detection company. Jessica earned her Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and geeks out about software with a social impact, distributed systems, and computational genomics. She also performs in improvisational comedy shows.

Jessica Rosenfield

Engineering

Kate Hawkins

Product

Kate enjoys building technology for social good. Prior to joining CoProcure, she built products at Bay Area public media organization KQED, internet radio service Pandora, and edtech startup Coursera. Kate enjoys being outdoors, cooking for friends, having many beverages on hand at all times, and writing crossword puzzles.

Kate Hawkins

Product

Mark Rossetti

Engineering

Mark has spent the last several years using software to solve problems of the public interest and common good, from assisting small business development to helping people clear old criminal records to building software for the treatment of opioid addiction. He loves working across the stack and seeing the big picture of what makes a product experience really valuable for users. Beyond the keyboard, Mark is a great fan of the outdoors, folk music and poetry, and partner acrobatics.

Mark Rossetti

Engineering

Ryan Kwon

Engineering

Ryan graduated from a small place named Williams College where he was absolutely sure he was going to go into academia. Before joining CoProcure, he spent a bit of time co-sinking a ticketing platform startup, dabbling at a quant hedge fund, and settling comfortably at Dropbox for several years. In his free time he games heavily, is into social AI and social robotics, and also spends inordinate amounts of time convincing his friends with cats to let him visit, but he’s happy he’s at least kicked his former obsession with building ecology simulators that he had in college.

Ryan Kwon

Engineering

Siyuan Tu

Design

Siyuan is passionate about infusing design and systems thinking into government tools and services. Prior to CoProcure, she was a product designer at Netflix and Autodesk, where she designed software to power creative studios. Away from the screen, Siyuan loves to explore new hikes with her puppy, climb, and spend time in her (finally finished) converted Sprinter van.

Siyuan Tu

Design

Star Silva

Business Ops

Star's professional journey began as an aspiring diplomat working overseas and in DC, where she worked in public policy, communications, and strategic operations in government and nonprofits. Along the way she noted the growing impact of the tech industry on world affairs and on humans around the globe- and jumped at the chance to lend a public sector mindset to technology development. CoProcure is her second startup, and she is excited about continuing to help better align tech with the public interest. Outside of work, Star likes to travel to places where she can't speak the language, cook and eat delicious things, and gently throw people on the judo mat.

Star Silva

Business Ops

Timothy Ryan

Business Ops

Tim is a social entrepreneur and first-generation low-income college graduate with a B.A. in Global Affairs from Yale University. Prior to joining CoProcure, he focused on expanding a service, scholarship, and advocacy organization he co-founded in 2018 that supports independent youth (i.e. foster, emancipated, unaccompanied, estranged) in pursuit of higher education and also helped develop a publishing startup that rescues out-of-print titles. Outside of the office, Tim loves hiking, biking, and all things outdoors; he is also an avid Catan enthusiast (or any strategy game for that matter), has a passion for jazz (jamming, listening, or composing), and loves to travel and discover new places and experiences (pandemic-pending).

Timothy Ryan

Business Ops

Veronica Gunn

Engineering

Veronica enjoys developing systems that empower the public sector. Prior to joining CoProcure she worked on Department of Defense contracts at Palantir. Outside of work, she’s fascinated by criminology, loves authentic Mexican food and board games, and has a soft spot for animals (especially small cats and large dogs).

Veronica Gunn

Engineering

Yvonne Chen

Product

Yvonne graduated from UCLA with a degree in CS, having led ACM@UCLA. She has previously worked at Facebook in Civic Integrity and Stripe in Alternative Payments. She has a broad range of technical interests that range across the full stack, data, and design, and strongly believes in working in technology for social good. Her interests include flying as a private pilot out of Oakland International and doing magic tricks!

Yvonne Chen

Product

Our Investors

We're backed by leading technology investors and founders of marketplace and e-commerce businesses we admire: Marco Zappacosta of Thumbtack; Dan Lewis of Convoy; and Katrina Lake of Stitch Fix.

Forerunner

Leadout Capital

Neo

We're excited to meet you

If you’re looking to grow at the speed of a startup and have impact at the scale of government, check out our open positions.

We’re building a hybrid team based in San Francisco. We love to work together in our office a few times a week, but we’ve designed our schedules with flexibility and work/life balance in mind.

Don’t see a role for you? Drop us a note at careers@coprocure.us.
We’re always looking for talented, mission-driven individuals.