Bang the Table

What Bang the Table does

Bang the Table is a private, for-profit company founded in 2007 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado. It provides an online citizen engagement platform that enables government agencies — primarily at the local level, with stated reach into state and federal tiers — to consult with constituents, gather public input, and communicate with stakeholders through digital channels. The company's functional focus is on facilitating public participation and civic consultation workflows, addressing pain points such as limited digital engagement capabilities, lack of transparency in government processes, and poor citizen-government communication. It also targets the broader use case of civic engagement and public consultation platforms for government.

The company's core technology is not described in detail in the available source data; no proprietary features, API surface, SDK, or integration partners are documented. The platform sits within the online community engagement platforms category, which was valued at USD 0.3 billion in 2024 and is forecast to reach USD 0.64 billion by 2032, with North America identified as a key regional market. The company employs between 51 and 100 people, placing it in the mid-sized niche-vendor tier within its category. Customer logos, pricing models, revenue mechanics, and partnership channels are not disclosed in the source data, which is a notable gap for diligence purposes. Founded 18 years ago, Bang the Table predates the post-COVID acceleration of digital government adoption, positioning it as a long-tenured incumbent rather than a recent entrant riding the latest wave of civic-tech funding.

The company's business model operates within the government vertical SaaS space, serving government agencies across local, state, and federal levels that are pursuing digital transformation and citizen engagement solutions. No pricing information, contract structures, or revenue model details are available in the source data, so the unit economics and sales cycle characteristics cannot be characterized with confidence. The leadership team is sparsely documented: only the founder (Karthik Reddy, Technical Co-Founder, CIO & CTO) is identified.

Name

Bang the Table

Website

https://bangthetable.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Bang the Table is a Boulder, Colorado-based government technology company founded in 2007 that provides an online citizen engagement platform enabling local, state, and federal government agencies to run digital public consultation and civic participation programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civic Engagement Software

NAICS

Other General Government Support (92119)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Government Digital Service & eGovernment (Service Delivery, IDs, Portals) (BPAIAAAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

City Clerk/Records, Elections & Civic Engagement (BPAIACAB), Public Communications, Transparency & Open Government (BPAIAAAH)

Keywords

• Citizen engagement platform
• Civic consultation software
• Public participation tools
• Community engagement software
• Government digital engagement

Headquarters

HQ city

Boulder

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Core offering

Bang the Table offers an online citizen engagement platform for local government. The platform enables government agencies to facilitate public consultation, gather community input, and conduct citizen participation in decision-making processes. It targets government entities at the local, state, and federal levels seeking digital transformation and improved citizen-government communication.

Product overview

Granicus offers the Government Experience Cloud (GXC), a comprehensive platform-plus-modules architecture for government digital transformation. The core platform comprises three main clouds: Service Cloud for delivering frictionless services, Engagement Cloud for audience growth and activation, and Operations Cloud for workflow automation. Additional modules include GXI Enterprise and GXI Foundations for analytics and insights. The portfolio includes specialized solutions for federal government (Federal Experience Cloud), destinations and tourism (Destinations Experience Cloud), and an AI-powered Government Experience Agent (GXA) for 24/7 self-service. Acquired brands including govDelivery (communications), Host Compliance (short-term rental compliance), OpenForms (forms and workflows), govQA (records management), and various agenda management systems (Legistar, Peak, OneMeeting) extend the platform's capabilities. The company also offers consulting services through the Granicus Experience Group (GXG).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Online Citizen Engagement Platform

Quantifiable outcome

• Global online community engagement platforms market valued at USD 0.3 billion in 2024, forecasted to reach USD 0.64 billion by 2032

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Granicus: Direct competitor offering a Government Experience Cloud (Service/Engagement/Operations Clouds) plus analytics and a Government Experience Agent, addressing the same government citizen-engagement and digital-service use cases as Bang the Table.
• CivicPlus: Direct peer providing a broad suite of integrated civic engagement, content management and government-request software to local government clients, overlapping Bang the Table's citizen engagement and public consultation use cases.
• CitizenLab: Direct peer offering a civic engagement and participation platform for governments, with overlapping features around online consultations, ideation and community feedback that compete head-on with Bang the Table.
• PublicInput: Direct peer providing a civic engagement platform to local and state governments for public meetings, surveys and community input, addressing the same public consultation workflows as Bang the Table.
• Polco: Direct peer (which acquired MindMixer) offering community engagement, polling and civic analytics tools to local governments, intersecting Bang the Table's citizen engagement and public consultation use cases.
• Peak Democracy: Direct peer providing online citizen engagement and public-input platforms to local governments, addressing the same community survey and consultation workflows as Bang the Table.

Emerging players

• Neighborly: Adjacent emerging player focused on connecting residents with local government services and information, with partial overlap to Bang the Table's digital-government citizen-engagement positioning.
• OpenGov: Adjacent emerging player providing cloud software for state and local government budgeting, planning and resident engagement, with partial overlap in the digital-government / resident-engagement space.

Broad incumbents

• Tyler Technologies: Broad incumbent serving the public sector with a wide portfolio of ERP, civic services and engagement software, competing in adjacent rather than core citizen-engagement workflows and typically serving larger agencies.
• Salesforce Government Cloud / GovSlack: Broad incumbent offering horizontal CRM and engagement capabilities adapted to government, providing overlapping citizen-engagement functionality though not specialized to public-consultation workflows like Bang the Table.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/bangthetable
• Facebookfacebook.com/bangthetable
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bang-the-table

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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