Ramp is trying to get the US government as a customer after seeing a tweet from DOGE

Cost management start Landing The US Government General Services Office is taken into account for a charging card pilot program, the company has been approved on Thursday TechCrunch.

The government’s dubled Smartpay is a $ 700 billion program. According to one ramp, the truck card pilot program contract is up to $ 25 million report by pro public.

Pro Publicica claims that the Fintech ramp has lobby for the attention of the leadership since January, before the president’s swearing.

In January, Ramp co-founder CEO Eric Glyman and Ramp VC Investor Kyle Harrison wrote a A Blog posThe government “Effective Formula”, listed in the way they imagined, “eliminate ineffective costs”. Harrison is the general partner in the company.

The article seemed to appeal to the Government Agenda of Asson Musk – a few days later, it would be officially formally created – the RAM was a musk and Trump’s world. The investors of the ramp include Peter Thiel’s founders Foundation; Keith Rabois of Khosla Venturas; Developed by Joshua Kushner of Trump’s brother Joshua Kushner, developed capital; Ally 8vcJoe Lonsdale and Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida and former Republican President George W. Bush’s brother.

Rampa “, based on the power of our solution, competes in a standard procurement process for the smartpay pilot program,” Lindsay McKinley, Communication head on Thursday.

He added: “If the technology of the Ramp will be held from the economy for billions of dollars and is elected, we will bring these results to the American taxpayer.“

Despite the strong rhetoric of McKinley, it touches the shame of the Ramp as a choice of money saving for corporations. Similar spending management features like other corporate expenditure management platforms, as parameters to determine the costs that do not comply with politics. There is a federal government Many such policies for employees.

McKinley said that the beginning saw A public writing in x “On February 18, the Government of Government-known as the Efficiency of the US government,” currently has ~ 90 million unique operations ~ 90 million unique transactions ~ 4.6m active credit cards / accounts. “

The former client, ramp claims, made a decline in the GSA after a few days.

“Since then, we have demonstrated the product and is now part of a standard RFI process,” he said. “We have no signs to be selected.”

Decline in March doubled the assessment $ 13 billion after a northern sales of $ 150 million. The beginning has been lifted for more than $ 1 billion and $ 700 million in debt financing since 2019.