The Urban Innovation Fund is a venture capital firm that provides seed capital and regulatory support to entrepreneurs solving what they feel are tough urban challenges. The Urban Innovation fund works to help their portfolio companies grow and to provide value for those companies.
With 82% of Americans living in cities, and two-thirds of the world's population urbanizing by 2050, there are a growing number of challenges facing urban dwellers. The Urban Innovation Fund invests in startups enhancing the livability, sustainability, and economic vitality of cities. They focus their investments on the transportation, energy and water, real estate technology, business services, financial technology, health and public safety, government technology, civic technology, food systems and the future of work sectors.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Valor Water Analytics is a company developing customized financial data and dashboard tools for water utilities and businesses. It participated in the W15 cohort of Y Combinator.
Catch is a company providing a benefits management platform for handling taxes, retirement, time off, health insurance, and student loan refinancing.
Apana is a Bellingham, Washington-based company developing an intelligent water management platform.
Ride Report provides cities a software platform for running bike and scooter share programs.
Ethic is a New York-based company founded in 2015 by Johny Mair.
The Town Kitchen is an Oakland, California-based company.
Visage is an artificial intelligence company founded by Joss Leufrancois.
Milk Stork is a Palo Alto, California-based e-commerce company.
Associated investment funds
People
Andrew Felbinger
Associate
Clara Brenner
Founder and Managing Partner
Julie Lein
Founder and Managing Partner
Further reading
How Urban Innovation Fund picks and grows companies | MIT Sloan
Dylan Walsh
Web
December 4, 2019
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
21st Century Solutions: Urban Innovation Fund co-founders awarded
August 26, 2016
Companies
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Contributors
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Aleksander Holm
Interested in understanding the world we live in. - 2
Melanie Manipula
Helping organize knowledge. - 3
Jed Christiansen
Special Projects & Business Development at Golden, Founder - Seed-DB. - 4
Henry Ogolla
Passionate about reading and writing. - 5
Aime Anne Nisay
QA Engineer of web and mobile applications - 6
Julius John Villarisco
Every day is a new learning for me, new opportunity every time. Never limit my self, think outside the box.