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Every six months we select up to 10 urbantech startups and invest $100,000 per company. Our 20-week accelerator program equips startups facing the unique challenges of working with and in cities.
$10,000,000
Average investment
per company
6 EXPERTS
On-site Design
'Experts-in-Residence'
$100,000
Initial Funding
from URBAN-X
50+ Startups
in the network.
100+ Global Cities
in the network.
2000+ Mentors
in the network.
THE ACCELERATOR
FOR STARTUPS
REIMAGINING
CITY LIFE.
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Expanding possibilities for construction through robotics and automation.
Short-term, flexible leasing for electric vehicles.
Treau is building advanced climate control systems to bring sustainable, comfortable, and efficient cooling and heating to the masses.
Truck-based waste analytics systems to improve logistics, diversion and recycling.
Equipment optimization for the construction industry.
The first dedicated e-commerce platform for vintage and second hand stores.
The Free Ride provides free, electric shuttle transportation in 17 cities around the US.
Envairo is a light-weight platform that quantifies space use to optimize workplaces.
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.
Farmshelf helps feed the world by building urban farms that enable anyone to grow great tasting nutritious food.
Open Data Nation provides Predictive problem mitigation based on open city data.
Citiesense creates data-driven maps that layer information about permits, sales and property changes, guiding stakeholders to smarter development decisions.
WearWorks is a New York-based haptics design company using sensory feedback systems to communicate information entirely via touch.
Swiftera builds high-altitude imaging platforms to support citizens, businesses and municipalities in mobility, leisure and urban planning decisions.
Campsyte enables citydwellers to easily find and book private outdoor event space.
Contextere is an Industrial IoT software company enabling the connected workforce.
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.
Good Goods is a collaborative retail model for shared urban spaces.
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.
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.
Upgrade your existing intercom to enjoy keyless access and unattended services.
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.
A NETWORK
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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