Portfolio

“The Urban Innovation Fund has gone well beyond what you would expect from a seed investor and, most importantly, they always do what they say they will, which is a rare quality in our industry.”

— Samir Kaji, Allocate co-founder & CEO

Portfolio highlights

Portfolio Highlights

Electriphi

Accelerating electric vehicle adoption at commercial scale. Electriphi was acquired by Ford after the Urban Innovation Fund led its Seed round. It now serves as the software backbone of Ford Pro.

Ethic

Helping investors align their values and financial goals. The Urban Innovation Fund invested in Ethic’s Seed round and continued investing in every subsequent round. Ethic most recently raised a $64M Series D led by State Street.

Jeeves

Building the first global business bank. The Urban Innovation Fund led Jeeves’ Seed round and continued investing in every round through its $180M Series C from Tencent, A16Z, and CRV.

Allocate

Bringing transparency to the private markets. The Urban Innovation Fund invested in Allocate’s Seed and Series A rounds. Allocate most recently raised a $30M Series B from Portage and A16Z.

Solarcycle

The largest solar panel recycler on the planet. The Urban Innovation Fund led Solarcycle’s Seed round and backed it through every funding round, including its $35M Series B from Fifth Wall, Heritage Group, Microsoft & Prologis.

Sent

Redefining how businesses communicate with their customers. The Urban Innovation Fund invested in Sent’s Seed round, and continued investing in its $12M Series A from Companyon and Bessemer.

Numen

Increasing access to high quality, low-cost cancer screening. The Urban Innovation Fund led Cleancard’s Seed round and continued to back it through subsequent financing.

Variance

Delivering world class compliance and fraud tools. The Urban Innovation Fund led Variance’s Seed round and invested in its $21.5M Series A led by Ten Eleven Ventures.

Full list of portfolio companies

Portfolio (1-30)

Allocate

Modernizing private market investing

ApplyDesign

Virtual staging made easy

Avela

Education search, admissions, and enrollment software

BookNook

A high-impact tutoring platform

Builders Patch

Financing for affordable housing and multifamily construction

Bundle

AI-powered procurement for construction

Chief AI

AI platform powering the world's leaders

Civic IQ

Bloomberg for government data

ClimateWells

Permanent, local carbon credits

codeSpark

Teaching kids to code (acquired by BEGiN)

Codi

The operating system for commercial real estate

Coinrule

Empowering retail investors with automated trading

Commenda

A global tax & compliance platform for cross-border companies

Dataships

A consent optimization & compliance platform for e-commerce businesses

Dinya

Building custom DNA sequences in record time

DropCountr

Water utility communication tools (acquired by Hearst Communications)

Electriphi

Software to power electric fleets (acquired by Ford)

Ethic

Delivering personalized, values-aligned, and tax-smart investing

Exante

Autonomous collections agents

Fabrica

Digital real estate transactions

Ferrum

AI governance for healthcare

Finli

Digital payments platform for small businesses

Infilla

Faster entitlements & permitting

Ivy Invest

Endowment-style investing for everyone

Jeeves

The financial operating system for global enterprises

Jiffy

On-demand home services (acquired by Intact Financial Services)

Joyride

The all-in-one software platform to power lightweight vehicle fleets

KarmaSuite

Financial tools for the nonprofit industry

Keygraph

An application security platform for large, secure enterprises

Koshy

An engineering knowledge platform

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Lambda Surgical

Building physical intelligence infrastructure for surgery

Listening

Turning textbooks and academic papers into audio

Local Bushel

Logistics software for farm produce (acquired by Hudson Valley Harvest)

Malloc

Data privacy for everyday people

Mason AI

AI-native construction software

McMullen

An e-commerce brand that supports emerging fashion entrepreneurs

Milk Stork

Getting breast milk where it needs to go

Mogul

Helping musicians understand their business and find lost revenue

Monterra

AI-powered electrical engineering firm

Moritz

An AI-native commercial law firm

Numen

Rapid and reliable at-home cancer testing

Ohm AI

Accelerating engineering and testing of complex hardware

Optiwatt

A smart charging app for electric vehicles

Oscar AI

An AI data analyst for quick service restaurants

Pennant

The corporate governance operating system

Plenna

Virtual and in-person women’s health clinic for Latin America

Popl

The in-person go-to-market platform

Public Grid

Helping multifamily residents get access to green energy

Replay AI

Helps companies fund growth by licensing the data they already have

Route Reports

Transportation & infrastructure analytics

Safari AI

A search engine for the real-time physical world

Sent

Messaging infrastructure for the AI era

Solarcycle

Solar panel & e-waste recycling

Stell

Secure requirements management for mission-critical systems

Stop, Breathe & Think

Mental health app for young people (acquired by Meredith Corp)

Sunset

Automates & simplifies estate settlement

Synthetic Users

Test your idea or product with AI participants

Tekton Dynamics

Turns any robot into an autonomous expert welder

Teserac

AI for data center operations

Testparty

Digital accessibility compliance software

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Valor Water Analytics

Big data solution for water utilities (acquired by Xylem)

Variance

AI agents for compliance and fraud investigations

Vendra

A marketplace for sourcing custom parts from US manufacturers

Visage

Hiring platform that harnesses the power of the crowd

Voatz

Changing how the world votes