Urban Innovation Fund
urban.vc Direct investor
Urban Innovation Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups in sectors such as energy, transportation, and fintech, with a focus on improving cities.
Urban Innovation Fund is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, United States. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in built world, social systems and economic vitality. Its stated cheque size is $500K-$3.5M. 61 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in startups transforming massive, regulated industries.”
— Urban Innovation Fund, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Invests in
- US
- Sectors
- built world, social systems, economic vitality
- Cheque size
- $500K-$3.5M
- Portfolio
- 61 companies
Team, as Urban Innovation Fund publishes it
- Julie Lein Managing Partner
- Clara Brenner Managing Partner
- Andrew Felbinger Partner
- Jenieri Cyrus Senior Associate
Names and roles exactly as listed on urban.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 46 co-investors found.
- Slauson & Co. Management, L.L.C. 2 shared companies: finli.com, bundle.build
- Data Point Capital 1 shared company: visage.jobs
- Newfund 1 shared company: visage.jobs
- Fusion Fund 1 shared company: codespark.com
- Bling Capital 1 shared company: jiffyondemand.com
- Golden Ventures 1 shared company: jiffyondemand.com
- Round13 Capital 1 shared company: jiffyondemand.com
- Giant Ventures 1 shared company: ohm.ai
- Global Brain 1 shared company: teserac.ai
- Floodgate 1 shared company: sunsethq.com
and 36 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Urban Innovation Fund publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.urban.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, cheque_size, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, people
- https://www.urban.vc/portfolioportfolio_count
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Record 3887 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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