Company Mission:

• Hazel uses AI to help U.S. government purchasing teams buy at the speed of need with unparalleled efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
• Addresses a $2.7 trillion annual problem in government procurement across State, Local, and Education (SLED) and federal government agencies.
• Government procurement is traditionally slow due to complex processes, regulatory capture, and overworked civil servants.
• Founders have experience at Palantir and BCG witnessing procurement challenges causing severe impacts such as wildfires, compromised national security systems, and wasted billions.
• Hazel aims to solve this by deploying cutting-edge AI in the public sector to empower partners to address pressing challenges like climate sustainability and great power competition.
• Hazel builds AI for the public interest.

Founders:

• August Chen
• Elton Lossner
• Both have backgrounds at Palantir and BCG.

Team Insights:

Yaowuang Saechao, Full Stack Developer:

• Involved in all steps of product development.
• Solves complex engineering problems.
• Builds beautiful and intuitive UIs.
• Communicates directly with customers about their experience with Hazel.

Nicole Gordon, Founding Engineer:

• Enjoys working at Hazel for professional growth in various areas including AI-assisted coding.