Urban Future Lab
VC Fund
Brooklyn, United States
Urban Future Lab is a VC fund in Brooklyn focused on Energy and Software. 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.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Urban Future Lab invests in
Stages Urban Future Lab invests in
Countries Urban Future Lab invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Grant
- $25k–$50k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Energy 4 (50%)
- Software 2 (25%)
- Renewable Energy 2 (25%)
- Information Technology 2 (25%)
- Battery 1 (13%)
Stage
- Grant 5 (63%)
- Seed 1 (13%)
- Funding Round 1 (13%)
- Non-equity Assistance 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 4 (50%)
- France 1 (13%)
- Latvia 1 (13%)
- United Kingdom 1 (13%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Pat Sapinsley
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 8 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| HYGEN brings to the market superchargers for G-Mobility that can fuel your Gas Powered Vehicle at home or at the office in just 3 minutes. By utilizing the regular household or office gas distribution grid HYGEN solves the chicken and egg problem of the NGV market turning this grid into a decentralized fuelling infrastructure. By offering toend-users this low-cost at-home "supercharger" with unique freedom in terms of refueling, HYGEN transforms out-dated NGV image into an appealing and modern EV-like concept. HYGEN's proprietary liquid piston gas compression technology eliminates friction, excess heat and oil vapours. It extends the service life by a factor of 5 and reduces total cost of ownership by six-fold. It results in reinventing at-home fueling concept and enabling HYGEN's direct customers- Gas Utilities to open up for them a completely new business segment – transportation fuel market and to deliver clean and inexpensive fuel to your doorsteps at a competitive price. | Seed / Jun 17, 2019 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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
5 deals together
The New York Community Trust
4 deals together
NYSERDA
3 deals together
BP Ventures
2 deals together
Fraunhofer Venture
2 deals together
Greentown Labs
2 deals together
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FAQ
What does Urban Future Lab invest in?
Urban Future Lab invests primarily in Energy, Software and Renewable Energy startups, most often at Grant and Seed 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.
What round sizes does Urban Future Lab invest in?
Urban Future Lab typically joins rounds of $25k–$50k at Grant. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Urban Future Lab's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Urban Future Lab took part in.
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The team at Urban Future Lab includes Pat Sapinsley (Managing Director). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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