Urban Us is a microventure capital company in Brooklyn, New York that is an early-stage investor of startups. It re-imagines cities and supports founders from product launch to global growth. Founded in 2013 by Shaun Abrahamson and Stonly Baptiste, it invests in debt, private equity, seed,and ventures. The company typically invests in seed, Series A, convertible notes, Series B and other ventures. Its portfolio companies include Urbint, Bowery Farming, Toggle, Sapient Industries and Covetool.
Urban Us invests in companies within the real estate, public safety, transport, logistics, water, energy, waste, air quality, construction, architecture, internet connectivity and local government sectors. These companies help re-design cities for 80% lower green-house gas emissions. They also work with pre-seed companies through URBAN-X, in partnership with BMW/MINI.
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Starcity is an American company that builds co-housing microapartments in which tenants pay for a private room with shared kitchens, bathrooms and other shared spaces.
Skycatch is a San Francisco-based company founded by Christian Sanz.
Bowery is an agriculture company founded by Brian Falther.
Sapient Industries is a company that offers Sapient system, which is an enterprise plug load management and analytics system that uses machine learning technology
RoadBotics is an Artificial Intelligence company.
BlocPower is a Brooklyn-based provider of a platform for energy efficiency and management for commercial and residential buildings.
ChargeLab is a Toronto, Ontario, Canada-based company founded by Zachary Lefevre, Mather Warsame and Alex Kjorven.
Flair is a Berkeley, California-based company founded by Kenny Tay.
Artificial Intelligence company
Future Motion is a Santa Cruz, California-based company founded by Kyle Doerksen.
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Anthony Millin
Venture Partner
Liz Sisson
Associate
Mark Paris
Partner
Shaun Abrahamson
Managing Partner
Stonly Baptiste
Co-founder & Partner
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Flair
Blueprint Power
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Covetool
Miles
Qucit
RoadBotics
Swiftera
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