Newly Launched Govineer Aims for Financial, Utility Billing

A new — yet not so new — player has emerged in the local government technology scene, a company determined to win more business around financial and utility billing.

Govineer Solutions has announced its debut.

It has backing from Peterson Partners, a private equity firm based in Utah, which is also the headquarters of this new firm.

Three existing companies make up Govineer:

• Utah-based Caselle, which was founded more than 45 years ago and sells accounting software to municipalities, counties, and service and school districts.
• Civic Systems, a Wisconsin company that launched in 1984 and offers services including tax, advisory and utility billing.
• Montana’s Black Mountain Software, which traces its roots to 1988 and sells accounting software to schools, cities, counties and utilities — and which was bought by Peterson Partners in 2022.

The three companies — with Fiscalsoft and Cascade, which Black Mountain previously acquired — will “continue to exist” as part of Govineer, according to Nate Quinn, the new company’s co-CEO with Mike Fabrizio. Fabrizio and Quinn are also co-CEOs for Black Mountain.

As 2025 approaches, artificial intelligence may have the most heat and buzz in gov tech but, as this new announcement shows, seemingly more mundane matters such as accounting, billing and budgets can still drive deals.

Somewhat similarly, Tyler Technologies in September announced it had teamed with Envisio on priority-based budgeting tools. Recreation management is another area of gov tech that, while less buzzed about than AI, helps make investments flow — as glimpsed in another recent deal involving CivicPlus.

The three Govineer companies will operate as subsidiaries, Quinn told Government Technology via email. Peterson will hold two of the five Govineer board seats.

“Their brands, teams, applications aren’t going anywhere,” he said of the firms now under the Govineer umbrella. “These companies have all built up reputations and goodwill in their respective markets over decades and we will be preserving their legacies. They are all now subsidiaries of Govineer Solutions.”

The deal presents an “opportunity” to build a market leader in local government enterprise resource planning, he said, with Govineer benefiting from the “long histories” of its subsidiaries. “This combination will enable each company to better innovate and serve their respective customers,” Quinn said.

At launch, Govineer said it had more than 2,000 clients in more than 40 states, and about 200 employees.

The new company promised “continuity” to existing clients of the three new subsidiaries, according to a statement, along with new resources and innovation.