Pat Sapinsley
Managing Director @ Urban Future Lab
Pat Sapinsley is a grant investor at Urban Future Lab focused on Energy and Software.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Pat Sapinsley invests in
Stages Pat Sapinsley invests in
Countries Pat Sapinsley invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 3 (38%)
- Software 2 (25%)
- Clean Energy 2 (25%)
- Renewable Energy 2 (25%)
- Information Technology 2 (25%)
Stage
- Grant 6 (75%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
- Non-equity Assistance 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 5 (63%)
- France 1 (13%)
- United Kingdom 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Dioxycle is develop electrolyser solutions for carbon dioxide emissions. | Jun 21, 2023 | ||
| Soteria is revolutionizing lithium-Ion battery safety to enable inherently safe batteries everywhere. Soteria’s technology acts as an internal fuse within the battery to prevent ignition events. It aims to ensure that these materials are available to every battery manufacturer with local production from a broad supply base so that every device -whether a hearing aid or an electric bus - can have a battery that is virtually impossible to self-ignite. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina. | $50K / Grant / Apr 24, 2020 | ||
| Amperon is a provider of smart meters to deliver real-time energy data forecasts. There over 70M smart meters currently installed in the country, collecting 15 minute resolution electricity data for every type of ratepayer (including residential, commercial, and industrial). The data has been relatively untapped for the past decade, and Amperon isleveraging it to charge forward and bring AI to the energy world to usher in the smart grid of the future. | $50K / Grant / May 07, 2019 | ||
| Avvir works seamlessly with its existing systems from photo capture, to construction workflow management to laser scans and 360 photos. Their platform helps them identify potential risks and slowdowns, plus save time and money by automating their progress and earned value tracking, quality control, and as-built creation. | $50K / Grant / Feb 28, 2018 | ||
| Buildee provides accessible building data and science for a broader market. | $50K / Grant / Feb 26, 2018 | ||
| Dollaride is a mobility company that develops clean transportation projects in urban cities. The company provides mobility software and financial services that increase clean energy/transportation adoption in underserved markets. Backed by world-class investors, venture capital firms, government agencies, and community partners, Dollaride isforging a new path to the green economy for small transportation fleet owners. Dollaride was inspired by NYC commuter vans (aka "dollar vans"). Originating in the 1980s, a robust network of commuter van drivers now provides local transportation services to over 120,000 New Yorkers daily. Dollaride service connects fleet owners, drivers, and passengers through the first digital platform for NYC's informal transit network. | $50K / Grant / Feb 26, 2018 | ||
| Founded in 2005, Highview Power Storage is a developer of large-scale energy storage solutions for utility and distributed power systems. Using liquid air as the storage medium, Highview can design bespoke Liquid Air Energy Storage (LAES) plants ranging from 5MW/20MWh to 100MW/1,000MWh+ to service a growing multi billion dollar market. | Non-equity Assistance / Jan 12, 2017 | ||
| Tagup Inc. was founded in 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts. The team consists of twenty individ- uals, including eight data scientists. The company’s core IP is related to four areas: 1) High-performance computing pipeline (data acquisition, data wrangling, model and data delivery), 2) Time-to-event modeling (large-scale time series-based modeling oftime to event, accurately predicting equipment failure and critical events over timescales ranging from days to decades), 3) Anomaly detection and operating mode classification (a semi-supervised approach for identifying unusual operation without explicit alarm thresholds), and 4) Inference and optimization (for specific applications, recommending specific control actions to optimize equipment use). Tagup’s customers are primarily in the energy industry, ranging from distribution through generation. The technology is deployed in various applications, including electric distribution networks, high-purity water systems, offshore wind turbines, and military ground vehicles, among others. | $25K / Grant / Nov 18, 2016 |
Co-Investors
ACRE
6 deals together
NYSERDA
4 deals together
The New York Community Trust
4 deals together
BP Ventures
3 deals together
Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V Initiative)
1 deal together
Fraunhofer Venture
1 deal together
About Urban Future Lab
Urban Future Lab is the center of cleantech innovation in New York. They are leading the way to a more sustainable world by connecting people, capital, and purpose to advance market-ready solutions to address climate change. Their programs include ACRE, a business incubation program for pre-seed to series A startups, PowerBridgeNY, aproof-of-concept center commercializing research from local universities, and Clean Start, an advanced diploma from NYU for people seeking a transition into the cleantech sector. The UFL is part of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and is located in the Downtown Brooklyn.
Urban Future Lab Contacts
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What does Pat Sapinsley invest in?
Pat Sapinsley invests primarily in Energy, Software and Clean Energy startups, most often at Grant and Funding Round stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Pat Sapinsley closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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