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Urban Innovation Fund

Founders Clara Brenner Julie Lein

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Total investments 68
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$9M
Portfolio companies 48
Rounds per year 8.50
Lead investments 2
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.28
Exits 3
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • FinTech
  • Information Technology
  • Financial Services
  • Mobile
Summary

In 2016 was created Urban Innovation Fund, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the San Francisco.

The fund has specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 4 or 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Food and Beverage, Water. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Valor Water Analytics, BookNook, Ride Report. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Urban Innovation Fund, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Tumml, Winshall Walt. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Better Ventures, Nyca Partners, Kapor Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Nyca Partners, Kapor Capital, Thirdstream Partners.

This Urban Innovation Fund works on 23 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The high activity for fund was in 2019. The fund is generally included in 2-6 deals every year.

The fund was created by Clara Brenner, Julie Lein. Besides them, we counted 4 critical employees of this fund in our database.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Joyride

Audio
Automotive
Cycling
Last Mile Transportation
Mobile
Ride Sharing
SaaS
Software
Transportation
$5M12 Mar 2024 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Intrinsic

Developer APIs
Information Technology
Software
$3M21 Dec 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Byterat

Battery
Software
Test and Measurement
$4M27 Oct 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Optiwatt

$7M14 Sep 2023 Santa Barbara, California, United States

Solarcycle

Recycling
Renewable Energy
Solar
$30M15 Mar 2023 -

Ferrum Health

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Software
$6M12 Jan 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Plenna

Health Care
Personal Health
Wellness
$4M08 Dec 2022 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Kyte

Apps
Automotive
Car Sharing
Consumer Software
E-Commerce
Fleet Management
Information Services
Information Technology
iOS
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Rental
Software
Transportation
Video
$60M10 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Apply Design

3D Technology
Computer Vision
Content
Photo Editing
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
$2M31 Oct 2022 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
News
Catch takes hold of $12M to provide benefits that aren’t tied to employers

– Catch, a health insurance and retirement savings company, raised $12m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Crosslink and joined by earlier investors Khosla Ventures, NYCA Partners, Kindred Ventures and Urban Innovation Fund.
– The company plans to use the funding to increase its headcount to service those partnerships and go after more.

Allocate banks $5M to open up venture capital fund access

– Allocate, a venture capital investing platform, raised $5m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Urban Innovation Fund, Tusk Venture Partners, Basis Set Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures, Fika Ventures, Ulu Ventures, Anthemis Group and Broadhaven Ventures.
– The company was founded by Samir Kaji and Hana Yang in February 2021.

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Total investments 68
Average round size 9M
Rounds per year 8.50
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 2
Follow on index 0.28
Exits 3
Group Appearance index 0.82

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Joyride

Audio
Automotive
Cycling
Last Mile Transportation
Mobile
Ride Sharing
SaaS
Software
Transportation
$5M12 Mar 2024 Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Intrinsic

Developer APIs
Information Technology
Software
$3M21 Dec 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Byterat

Battery
Software
Test and Measurement
$4M27 Oct 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Optiwatt

$7M14 Sep 2023 Santa Barbara, California, United States

Solarcycle

Recycling
Renewable Energy
Solar
$30M15 Mar 2023 -

Ferrum Health

Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Software
$6M12 Jan 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Plenna

Health Care
Personal Health
Wellness
$4M08 Dec 2022 Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Kyte

Apps
Automotive
Car Sharing
Consumer Software
E-Commerce
Fleet Management
Information Services
Information Technology
iOS
Mobile
Mobile Apps
Rental
Software
Transportation
Video
$60M10 Nov 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Apply Design

3D Technology
Computer Vision
Content
Photo Editing
Real Estate
SaaS
Software
$2M31 Oct 2022 Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
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