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Every six months we select up to 10 urbantech startups and invest $150,000 per company. Our 20-week accelerator program equips startups facing the unique challenges of working with and in cities.
$10,000,000
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'Experts-in-Residence'
$150,000
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50+ Startups
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100+ Global Cities
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2000+ Mentors
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We are closely monitoring the spread of COVID-19. For the safety of our community, programming for Cohort 08, which starts this summer will be entirely remote. URBAN-X companies are responding to COVID-19. To learn more click here.
As always, we encourage founders from around the world to apply to URBAN-X Cohort 08. Our robust programming will continue, however all startups will remain remote and all programming will be conducted online. Applications close on April 03, 2020. Cohort 08 will begin in July. All interested innovators can apply here.
Our partner, Urban Us, has put together a resource to help founders respond to emerging challenges resulting from COVID-19, including team management, remote work and fundraising.
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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 protect our food and our planet.
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.
Enhancing road safety and traffic guidance via innovative hardware, software and design-focused solutions.
Envairo is a light-weight platform that quantifies space use to optimize workplaces.
Expanding possibilities for construction through robotics and automation.
Short-term, flexible leasing for electric vehicles.
AŌ AIR is working to enable those in polluted megacities to commute and exercise without fear of pollution.
Truck-based waste analytics systems to improve logistics, diversion and recycling.
Situational tracking during emergencies to improve on-scene awareness for first responders.
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.
Ometry 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.
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.
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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LIKE NO OTHER.
We work with founders, investors and advisors who’ve built many of today’s most notable startups that are transforming cities - helping you meet the right people, communicate effectively with them, and make new collaborations happen.
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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