Three Critical Opportunity Areas for New Startups to Create Solutions.
Three opportunity areas calling for singular solutions, mold-breaking fixes and scalable business models that render our cities healthier, more sustainable…
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AI system to help avoid construction mistakes.
Electric vehicle charging solutions for businesses, utilities, individuals, and governments.
Automated assessment of sewer infrastructure.
Novel materials for highly efficient catalytic decomposition of air pollutants.
Automating retrofit finance for small commercial buildings.
Infrastructure solutions for drones.
Building technology to ensure food safety and sustainability from farm to fork.
Building stronger communities by transforming public spaces into social experiences.
A cloud-based platform that provides analytics and insights to improve water quality by optimizing utility operations.
Automated building performance modeling to save time and money for early stage design.
Tackling food waste by partnering with popular restaurants and offering quality meals for as little as $4.
Reducing carbon emissions while saving costs via renewable energy, real time pricing and home IOT.
Situational tracking during emergencies to improve on-scene awareness for first responders.
Enhancing road safety and traffic guidance via innovative hardware, software and design-focused solutions.
Expanding possibilities for construction through robotics and automation.
Envairo is a light-weight platform that quantifies space use to optimize workplaces.
Short-term, flexible leasing for electric vehicles.
Truck-based waste analytics systems to improve logistics, diversion and recycling.
Real-time optimization for construction equipment.
The first dedicated e-commerce platform for vintage and second hand stores.
Providing free, electric shuttle transportation in 17 cities around the US.
Treau is building advanced climate control systems to bring sustainable, comfortable, and efficient cooling and heating to the masses.
Next generation materials for safer, more portable bike helmets.
Avvir offers real-time insights and quality assurance for construction projects.
Lunewave is developing a high performance and high value sensor system for fully autonomous vehicles.
Automation for mileage-based road pricing.
Sencity is reimagining connected urban street furniture, starting with one of our most pressing concerns: waste.
Letter-grade rating system to bring transparency to residential real estate.
Applied machine learning to automate the energy management of buildings.
Citiesense creates data-driven maps that layer information about permits, sales and property changes, guiding stakeholders to smarter development decisions.
Open Data Nation provides Predictive problem mitigation based on open city data.
Farmshelf helps feed the world by building urban farms that enable anyone to grow great tasting nutritious food.
WearWorks is a New York-based haptics design company using sensory feedback systems to communicate information entirely via touch.
Contextere is an Industrial IoT software company enabling the connected workforce.
Campsyte enables citydwellers to easily find and book private outdoor event space.
Near Space Labs builds high-altitude imaging platforms to support citizens, businesses and municipalities in mobility, leisure and urban planning decisions.
Numina collects real-time insights from streets for more responsive cities.
RoadBotics monitors and manages roadways cost effectively and efficiently through an AI technology that identifies and rates a wide array of important roadway features and conditions.
Industrial/Organic rapidly recovers water, energy and nutrients from food waste to produce high-value products such as organic fertilizers, animal feed and clean energy.
Hosta Labs is developing 3D models created from regular pictures for design and renovation.
Brooklyness has designed world’s most intelligent bike helmet, that makes riding a bike in the city safer.
Good Goods is a collaborative retail model for shared urban spaces.
Qucit – for Quantified Cities – applies artificial intelligence to optimize the operation of cities.
O2-O2 is working to enable those in polluted megacities to commute and exercise without fear of pollution.
Revmax develops fleet management and routing software for ride-hail vehicles.
Blueprint accelerates the transformation of buildings into intelligent power nodes that can participate in a transactive marketplace.
The lightest and most compact public transportation sharing system.
Location analytics + quantified self = a new kind of geo-intelligence.
Provides municipalities with tools that enable 21st compliance, taxation and procurement.
Upcycles develops unique human-electric cargo tricycles for moving goods around urban environments, up to and including the last mile.
Upshift makes getting a car in the city simple and delightful.
VN’s patent-pending AI and IoT platform supports construction managers with real-time, actionable insights.
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We’re uniquely positioned to offer ‘sandboxes’ for startups working in areas like mobility, food and waste, the built environment, and utilities.
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