Polyteia raises 5 million from HV Capital

Berlin, March 1st, 2023. Polyteia, the leading data platform for governments revolutionizing the way public authorities make decisions and operate their services, has secured €5 million in a funding round led by HV Capital with participation from existing investors like DvH Ventures. The funding will be used to further develop the company’s platform and expand its market footprint in the DACH region and beyond.

To empower European governments with data-driven decisions, Polyteia is further expanding its SaaS data platform’s transformation stack and no-code/low-code
capabilities, as well as building data solutions for various government use cases. In addition to its software directly to the customer, Polyteia plans to onboard technology partners using its platform and infrastructure for building a large scale data use case ecosystem for the public sector.

More than 80 governments like states of Schleswig-Holstein or Saarland as well as national level ministries in Germany successfully use Polyteia’s data platform in the fields of social service planning, crisis response or budget controlling. Therewith Polyteia is improving decisions impacting more than 2 million citizens and 400,000 businesses just in Germany. The government entities rely on the company’s strong public sector focus and domain knowledge as well as its platforms high data protection, security and sovereignty standards.

Faruk Tuncer: “I am thrilled to have the support of HV Capital as we continue to revolutionize the way governments make decisions based on data. Governments worldwide invest and spend trillions on their services. In the Euro Zone alone, half of GDP is directly or indirectly generated by government expenditures. Equally public sector institutions are under high digitization pressure by more than one third of their workforce retiring until 2030. Polyteia’s platform will be crucial in empowering them in their capabilities of solving 21st century challenges with better data against the backdrop of these trends. This new funding will allow us to further develop our data platform and bring it to many more governments in DACH and beyond.”

Said Haschemi, Investment Manager at HV Capital, said, “HV is excited to partner up with Polyteia to serve the public sector’s massively growing need for scalable software solutions. Governments must manually navigate through a flood of data to make the right decision – a process that is timely and too often error prone. With Polyteia, decision makers in the public sector finally have access to the right data with a click of a button. HV is looking forward to working with Faruk and the team to help the company to build the first government SaaS category leader in Europe.”

Duc Quyen Tran, Partner at DvH Ventures: “We are pleased to continue supporting Polyteia and are highly confident in the company’s ability to revolutionize the GovTech industry. We look forward to seeing the impact of the company’s platform on governments and citizens alike in this next phase of acceleration.”

Polyteia GmbH
Faruk Tuncer, Alexa Möller
Geschäftsführer
Schlesische Straße 27, 10997 Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 549 08 32 0
info@polyteia.de

About Polyteia

Polyteia is a Berlin-based startup that empowers public administration to make better decisions with a secure and sovereign SaaS data platform. Polyteia’s data platform Leto enables the automated integration, transformation and visualisation of data from different source systems in public administration. Leto is accessible through the Solution and Studio product lines.

The Solutions are designed to cover the most common use cases in the public sector for different work areas. If required, individual Solutions can also be designed for public authorities. With the no-code/low-code solution Studio, data is flexibly integrated and processed. Whether with or without programming knowledge, highly individual requirements can thus be implemented without any problems.

Leto is hosted and operated on Deutsche Telekom servers (Open Telekom Cloud) with a German server location (Magdeburg). This is BSI-certified (ISO 27001) and is classified as a “Trusted Cloud” by the BMWK.

Panel discussion with Polyteia COO, Federal Minister of Justice and the Head of the Bundeswehr Cyber Innovation Hub

COO and Managing Director Alexa Möller discussed the role of start-ups in the digital transformation of the administration with Federal Minister of Justice Dr Marco Buschmann and the Head of the Cyber Innovation Hub of the German Armed Forces, Sven Weizenegger.

Berlin, 19 January 2023 – As part of the GründerDialog, the FDP parliamentary group regularly invites representatives from the start-up landscape and the start-up scene to roundtable discussions.

In order for the public sector in Germany to benefit from the innovative power of the German start-up scene, procurement processes must be reformed and the public sector must be made more accessible as a market for start-ups.

There is also a need for a faster shift to cloud technology and SaaS solutions in order to benefit from scalability and flexibility, reduce costs and compensate for staff shortages. Only then will a sustainable digital transformation of the public sector become possible.

With Polyteia’s data platform, public administrations in Germany are already benefiting from the scalability and flexibility of these technologies.

Polyteia supports the State of Berlin in the evaluation of housing policy

Polyteia has developed an internal control solution for housing construction for the Senate Chancellery and the Senate Department for Urban Development, Building and Housing of the State of Berlin so that the Governing Mayor can speak at any time about the current status of housing construction in Berlin. This can be used, for example, to evaluate current figures on building permits and completions per district and builder. In the future, the application will also be made available to the public.

Berlin, 15. Dezember 2022 –

Together with the Senate Chancellery and the Senate Department for Urban Development, Construction and Housing, the Berlin-based start-up Polyteia has developed an application that brings together data on housing construction in Berlin from various sources and processes it intuitively. The application will initially be used internally within the administration, then further expanded and in the medium term also made available to the public.

In the application, for example, the historical to current development of flats approved and completed in Berlin per year can be traced. These key figures can also be broken down to the districts to see in which housing construction is currently developing most dynamically. In addition, the application also processes the housing stock and current shares of the public housing associations in the total completions and permits.

The application was developed in an agile process between Polyteia and the clients. In the next iterations, not only will further key figures be added, but the data transfer from different institutions will also be rethought, especially to ensure that the figures are up-to-date.

Polyteia Founder & CEO Appointed to Federal Government Digital Summit

CIO Markus Richter and Marc Reinhardt of Initiative D21 e. V. appoint Polyteia Founder & CEO Faruk Tuncer as a member of Platform 5 “Open Administration – Using Data Intelligently”.

Berlin, 8. Dezember 2022 – The Digital Summit brings together business, administration, science and society to jointly shape the digital transformation of public administration in Germany.

In seven different platforms and under the motto “Data – Creating Digital Value Together”, initiatives, projects and events will be developed over the course of a year. Polyteia founder & CEO Faruk Tuncer has been appointed to Platform 5 “Open Administration – Using Data Intelligently” and will contribute his experience in the field of intelligent and sustainable data use.

The platform members will develop answers and solutions on how to respond to the current challenges of our time with the help of the intelligent use of data. The platform is chaired by the Federal Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser.

Polyteia Founder & CEO develops recommendations for action for the State Department and the U.S. Department of State at the G-7 Summit

Polyteia Founder & CEO Faruk Tuncer discusses how GovTech innovations can help strengthen the trust and sovereignty of democratic institutions.

Berlin, 3. November 2022 – As one of 140 experts from the United States and Germany, Polyteia Founder & CEO Faruk Tuncer participated in the first German-American Future Forum. Organised by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, it took place on the sidelines of the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Münster.

In the workshop group “Strengthening democracy at home: Realising Democracy Digitally”, he developed recommendations for action for the German Foreign Office and the U.S. Department of State. The group looked in particular at how democratic states can become more resilient with the help of modern technologies. The result is a joint call for the establishment of a standards organisation between the EU and the USA.

Interoperability of software systems in public administration is at the core of fast and resilient processes. We are therefore very pleased that the proposal has been taken up and highlighted by Foreign Minister Anna-Lena Baerbock.

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Polyteia Founder & CEO Appointed to Advisory Board on Register Modernisation of the Federal Government

The Federal Ministry of the Interior has appointed Polyteia Founder & CEO Faruk Tuncer to the Science and Innovation Advisory Board Register Modernisation.

Berlin, 1. November 2022 – The Science and Innovation Advisory Board is composed of twelve members from science and practice. As founder and CEO of Polyteia, Faruk Tuncer primarily brings the perspective of GovTech and SaaS to the advisory board.

The modernisation of the register landscape is one of the most central digitisation projects of public administration in Germany. The goal is to ensure that data flows securely and quickly to where it is needed. Whether for more efficient processing of services, the use of data analytics & AI, or to make administrative processes more efficient.

Polyteia Founder & CEO in conversation with Franziska Giffey at the Smart Country Convention

Polyteia Founder & CEO Faruk Tuncer discusses at the Smart Country Convention with Berlin’s Mayor Franziska Giffey how the innovative power of Berlin’s startup scene can be better used for the digital transformation of the administration.

Berlin, 19 October 2022 – With more than 12,000 participants, the Smart Country Convention is Germany’s leading convention for the digitalisation of the public sector. Here, innovators from the digital industry come together with key decision-makers from the federal, state and local governments and renowned experts from science and associations.

With his appearance on the largest stage of SCCON22, Polyteia CEO Faruk Tuncer joins the leading minds of public sector digitisation in Germany.

Although Berlin has good funding programmes compared to the rest of Germany, it does not make sufficient use of the potential of its large start-up scene. The state must act much more strongly as a strategic client and buyer for Berlin start-ups and innovative companies. The administration and citizens would benefit from this: Through successful digitalisation, more sovereignty and better services.

Polyteia GmbH
Faruk Tuncer, Alexa Möller
Geschäftsführer
Schlesische Straße 27, 10997 Berlin
Tel.: +49 30 549 08 32 0
info@polyteia.de

About Polyteia

Polyteia is a Berlin-based startup that empowers public administration to make better decisions with a secure and sovereign SaaS data platform. Polyteia’s data platform Leto enables the automated integration, transformation and visualisation of data from different source systems in public administration. Leto is accessible through the Solution and Studio product lines.

The Solutions are designed to cover the most common use cases in the public sector for different work areas. If required, individual Solutions can also be designed for public authorities. With the no-code/low-code solution Studio, data is flexibly integrated and processed. Whether with or without programming knowledge, highly individual requirements can thus be implemented without any problems.

Leto is hosted and operated on Deutsche Telekom servers (Open Telekom Cloud) with a German server location (Magdeburg). This is BSI-certified (ISO 27001) and is classified as a “Trusted Cloud” by the BMWK.

regio iT and Polyteia conclude framework agreement

With immediate effect, the customers and shareholders of regio iT GmbH in North Rhine-Westphalia can use the data solutions of the Berlin IT company for better decisions and planning processes. The new partnership is sealed by the municipal IT service provider and the start-up with a joint framework agreement.

Berlin/Aachen, April 2022 – Data can significantly help municipalities to improve the lives of their citizens. However, many administrations in Germany are still in the early stages of using data. Although they already collect large amounts of data, they also face the challenge of using this data for decision-making and planning processes.

With its products, the GovTech company Polyteia GmbH offers suitable solutions for this challenge by automatically merging, cleansing and visualising data from different specialised procedures via interfaces. regio iT is now concluding a framework agreement with Polyteia in order to support its municipalities in the use of data across the board. The city of Solingen, one of regio iT’s customers, is already working successfully with Polyteia.

“In the course of the digital transformation, the use of data is of central
of central importance for the municipalities,” says Dieter Rehfeld, Chairman of the regio iT
Management Board. “We have set out to enable our customers to establish more data-based decisions and processes, for example in the areas of demographics, personnel management or school development. With Polyteia, we have been able to win a leading GovTech company as a partner that will support us with its data platform. At the same time, we are helping Polyteia with the provision of data.”

“As the largest public IT service provider in NRW, regio iT stands for experience,
service orientation and innovation,” adds Faruk Tuncer, managing director of
Polyteia. “With technical expertise and personnel capacity in the procurement of software solutions as well as the provision of data from specialised procedures, regio iT can profitably make our product and solution portfolio available to its municipalities as a partner.”

Polyteia GmbH
Faruk Tuncer, Alexa Möller
Geschäftsführer
Schlesische Straße 27, 10997 Berlin
tel +49 30 5490832-10
info@polyteia.de

KDVZ Rhein-Erft-Rur concludes framework agreement with Polyteia

The municipal special-purpose association kdvz Rhein-Erft-Rur concludes a framework agreement with the GovTech startup Polyteia. In the future, the 33 member municipalities of the kdvz association area in North Rhine-Westphalia will be able to use the data-based solutions of the Berlin-based IT company for better decisions and planning processes.

Berlin/Frechen, November 29, 2021 – Data can play a key role in helping municipalities improve the lives of their citizens. However, many administrations in Germany are still in the early stages of using data. Although they already collect large amounts of data, they also face the challenge of using this data for decision-making and planning processes.

With its products, the GovTech startup Polyteia offers the appropriate solutions for these challenges by automatically merging, cleansing and visualizing data from different specialized procedures via interfaces. The kdvz Rhein-Erft-Rur is now signing a framework agreement with Polyteia to support its municipalities in the use of data across the board. The association’s municipalities include the city of Frechen, the city of Jülich and the district administration of Euskirchen.

“With Polyteia, we are pleased to sign one of the first framework agreements with a GovTech startup nationwide,” said kdvz Managing Director Christian Völz. “We are convinced of the solutions and want to enable our member municipalities to establish more data-based decisions and processes, for example in the areas of demographics, personnel management or school development. At the same time, we support Polyteia in providing data.”

“For decades, kdvz has enjoyed a high level of trust as a high-performance service provider and partner in IT challenges for municipalities in the region,” adds Faruk Tuncer, Managing Director of Polyteia. “With central competence and expertise in the procurement of software solutions and the provision of data from specialist systems, kdvz is the ideal partner to make our product and solution portfolio profitably available to the user:inside.”

kdvz

As an IT service provider, the Zweckverband Kommunale Datenverarbeitungszentrale (kdvz) Rhein-Erft-Rur is the partner and first point of contact for 33 local governments in all matters relating to information technology for the public sector.

https://kdvz.nrw

Polyteia closes successful seed financing round

Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures (DvH Ventures) is investing a seven-figure sum in Berlin-based GovTech startup Polyteia. Other investors in the seed round include family office Bool Capital. Polyteia is a SaaS and data startup for the public sector that simplifies and accelerates the decision-making process in public administration at the municipal, state and federal levels.

The increasing staff shortage in the public sector as well as the far-reaching EU data protection directives and digitalization strategies are a favorable environment for Polyteia to rapidly expand across Europe. The control platform provides the public sector with a secure and easy-to-use solution to address exactly these current challenges. As the only end-to-end solution on the European market, Polyteia has a large lead over potential competitors in terms of time and, above all, technology, and can build on a scalable business model with an effective sales strategy. In addition, the management team has many years of experience and a high level of expertise in the dynamically growing area of government technology and contributes with its products to strengthening the technological performance and sovereignty of the state, administration and democracy in Germany.

Polyteia’s existing customers include the cities of Solingen and Goslar, and the states of Berlin and Schleswig-Holstein. For example, the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Education uses Polyteia to decide which schools need to be closed due to the Covid 19 infection situation. A manual evaluation of the daily reported infection figures of all schools in the state would not allow a reasonably fast reaction of the state.

Polyteia was founded by Faruk Tuncer in collaboration with Berlin-based corporate studio Bonum Ventures. Faruk Tuncer (Founder & CEO) was previously an officer in the strategy department of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), where he was responsible for local politics. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the Free University of Berlin and a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School of Governance. In addition, Faruk Tuncer is a member of the talent committee of the social enterprise JoinPolitics, where he works to promote young political talent, and of the initiative “2hearts”, which promotes cultural diversity in the tech scene of tomorrow.