#GovTech entrepreneur, public servant & scholar.
Building government technology with a purpose.
Here to help.
Abhi Nemani is a government technology entrepreneur, scholar, and public servant — founding, building, and leading many of the most influential GovTech institutions over the last 15 years, including the City of Sacramento's Innovation & Growth Fund, Los Angeles Mayor's Office of Data & Analytics, and Code for America.
Currently, Abhi is the managing director of EthosLabs, managing a portfolio of transparency, and data startups for local government, reaching over 100M people across more than 2,000 communities. Nemani is also a visiting scholar at the Rose Institute of State & Local Government and a board member of Leading Cities, a global sustainability accelerator.
Currently, Abhi is the managing director of EthosLabs, managing a portfolio of transparency, and data startups for local government, reaching over 100M people across more than 2,000 communities. Nemani is also a visiting scholar at the Rose Institute of State & Local Government and a board member of Leading Cities, a global sustainability accelerator.
Educator: #CivicTech Best Practices
Based on the experience of 12+ years leading and teaching the government technology field, the Civic Technology Academy features guides and resources for anyone, anywhere getting started or getting to scale, working in public innovation.
Advisor: Product, Marketing & Dilligence
As both an operator and an investor in government technology for nearly 15 years, and as someone who helped spearhead digital transformation in local government, I bring a differentiated perspective to investors (VC, Growth, PE, etc), philanthropies, and others trying to make an outsized impact in the industry.
Investor: Supporting GovTech Entrepreneurs
EthosLabs helps for-profit startups and non-profit groups find financing and sustainability models for scale. Ethos directly invests in organizations or provides investment advice for banks, philanthropies, investors, and other groups in the public sector.
Experience
GovDelivery
"Abhi is a world class thinker and innovator. I admired his work at Code for America and am honored that he has chosen to work with us at GovDelivery [now Grancius]."
- Scott Burns, CEO & Founder, GovDelivery
In the News
Case Studies
SPIDRTech: How GTM Research Shaped Product Strategy: Starting with a simple text reminders, SPIDR Tech's platform now enables realtime communication and feedback between the community and government
Putting Sacramento On the Map: Case study on building an economic development strategy to level-up a city's innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem
Enabling Data-Driven Decisions in LA: How building a showpiece unveiled the real challenges of PerformanceStat
NJ State Attorney General: Turning Procurement Around to Leverage Existing Tools: Data collection problems can stifle reform efforts that rely on data, such as the New Jersey effort to create an "early warning" system for abuse
Letting governments build their own workflows on CityGrows: Accessible and affordable workflow automation for local governments to replace paper forms and pdfs in minutes
ZenCity: Focusing on the User: Helping a a groundbreaking data science company understand 'where to play' and 'how to win'
Abhi Nemani