Urban Us was founded in 2013 because we concluded that startups would play an outsized role in re-imagining the core sectors used to design, build and operate cities. It’s working – our earliest investments are leading the way in areas like electrification of mobility, conservation of water, resilient food supplies and natural hazard simulations.

City sectors like transportation, real estate and energy are central to decarbonization and resilience. Urban Us invests in startups using tech to make higher density city life more appealing.

Cities are the front lines of adaptation because they’re home to most of the at-risk people and assets.

Higher density communities make decarbonization and climate change adaptation cheaper, per capita. , so Urban Us also focuses on how to make city life more attractive, by addressing negative externalities of city living like public health and traffic congestion.

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