Govstream.ai has raised a $3.6 million Seed round to help cities shrink permitting timelines from months to weeks-on a path to days.

The round was led by 47th Street Partners, a Menlo Park-based firm, with participation from Nellore Capital in Palo Alto-Govstream.ai's pre-seed lead investor-Ascend, a Seattle-based AI Fund, and a group of GovTech stalwarts, including Kevin Merritt (founder and former CEO of Socrata) and Andreas Huber (co-founder and CEO of First Due).

Govstream.ai is an AI-native permitting company based in Seattle. Its Conversational Workflow™ platform helps cities shrink permitting timelines from months to weeks, on a path to days, by supporting overburdened permit techs, planners, and reviewers and giving builders clearer, more predictable paths to approval. Built as an intelligent layer on top of the systems cities already use, Govstream.ai's products-PermitGuide, Application Assistant, and First Review-use responsible, transparent AI to validate documents, answer questions, and pre-check applications so more housing and infrastructure can move from plans to reality. Founded by govtech veteran Saf Rabah, a longtime builder of digital services for the government, Govstream.ai combines deep public-sector experience with modern AI engineering.