Urban Us

Urban Us is the leading early stage investor for startups upgrading cities for climate change. Urban Us was founded in 2013 as an event to understand how to best support startups focused on cities and climate. Today, over 100 investments like Onewheel, Rachio, Bowery Farming, One Concern, Thrilling, Mark43, Cove Tool and Versatile are leading the w... ay in areas like electrification of mobility, high performance building design, resilient food supplies and natural hazard risk management. The Urban Us platform includes the Urban Us Network, a resource for founders, investors, partners and customers. URBAN-X, in partnership with MINI, supports early stage teams with company building and fundraising. Urban Us VC makes pre-seed and seed venture investments. Urban Us Credit serves teams needing access to all forms of non-equity capital for project finance, asset finance and inventory finance. Urban Gateway supports startups business development in Asia. Urban Us partners were ranked in the top 10 of nearly 400 investors in The VCs who founders love the most by TechCrunch and #1 early stage climate fund in North America by Climate50. Previously the team worked for Citigroup, Microsoft, Prudential, Goldman Sachs, First Round Capital, Wellington Management and Roosevelt Institute and graduated from Harvard, MIT, Georgia Tech, NYU and UPenn.Read More