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Chromie

We help startups win gov contracts

The intelligent operating system for government contracting. Built by former AI engineers and government officials.
Active Founders
Ananth Sankaralingam
Ananth Sankaralingam
Founder/CEO
Founder at chromie.dev. Computer Science from University of Maryland, published ML research at NeurIPS, worked at LinkedIn and Amazon. Completed half iron, play the Mridangam and trumpet. Play soccer and basketball.
Company Launches
Chromie - AI OS for Government Contracting
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TL;DR: Chromie is the AI operating system for government contractors. We help teams find opportunities before the RFP drops, build the right relationships, test win strategies against real data, and draft winning proposals. All on top of a company brain that remembers everything your team has ever learned.

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The problem

The U.S. government is the largest buyer on earth, spending $800B on contracts every year. Yet the business is fundamentally relationship driven. Winning depends on understanding the agency, finding opportunities earlier than your competitors, and applying judgment built over years. 

Today, that work runs on gut instinct, fragmented tools, and institutional knowledge that disappears when people leave.

What Chromie does

Chromie surfaces agency signals and expiring contracts years before an RFP is posted publicly, giving capture teams time to understand the customer and shape a credible pursuit.

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From there, teams can qualify opportunities, develop teaming and pricing strategies, and compare potential win strategies without wasting resources. Chromie’s PWin models are backtested against millions of verified award outcomes, helping teams augment intuition with evidence.

Once a team decides to bid, Chromie carries that strategy into proposal development. It maintains a company brain that connects capture, proposal, and contract-execution knowledge in one shared foundation, so each pursuit benefits from the company’s past experience.

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What your team learns today strengthens the next pursuit.

Traction

Chromie already supports contractors with 100+ prime awards and more than $250M in obligated contract value. These teams have used Chromie to 3x their monthly proposal output and win new awards.

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Who we are

We're Ananth and Akshay. We met in a high school English class and have been building together ever since. Between us we've built and scaled infrastructure at Google, LinkedIn, Plaid, and Amazon. We’re developing Chromie alongside former federal contracting officers and acquisition leaders with decades of government experience.

Our ask

We'd love to connect with:

  • Government contractors, especially capture, BD, and proposal teams
  • Startups and companies trying to break into government contracting 
  • GovCon and federal-sales experts willing to share what they’ve learned :)

Contracts are won by the companies that start earliest, remember most, and test how to win instead of guessing. If that's you, or you're trying to get there, reach out.

Learn more at chromie.dev, or email founders@chromie.dev to find your company's fit in government contracting 🧩

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Chromie
Batch:Summer 2026
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Harshita Arora