Hi  .

“If you get shown a problem, but have no idea how to control it, then you just decide to get used to the problem.” - Squeeze, Sorry to Bother You

We’re investing out of our newest fund and we’d love your help spreading the word. We’re looking for founders who don’t just get used to problems, especially in any of the following areas -

• Built environment & real estate

• Infrastructure & industry

• Public health & safety

• Government & civic solutions

• Food, waste & water

• Energy & grid

• Transportation & mobility

• Finance & risk management

For sharing on LinkedIn, you can use or modify Post 1 or Post 2 or for Twitter, Post 1, Post 2 or Post 3. You can also forward this email or please reply and introduce us to a team you’d like us to meet. To learn more or apply, visit urban-x.com. Cohort 06 applications close on April 1, 2019.

Startups

A must read for founders on time management and fundraising

Series A SaaS Startup Benchmarks for 2018

The most powerful person in silicon valley loves urbantech H/T Micah Kotch

Cities & Sustainability

Corporate America Is Getting Ready to Monetize Climate Change

$300 billion in electric vehicles, with more than 45 percent of that earmarked for China

A New World – The Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation

4 U.S. Electric Vehicle Trends To Watch In 2019 H/T Dan Meyers

Highlights from Michael Batty’s ‘Inventing Future Cities’ by Arnaud Sahuguet

Opportunities

The Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University kindly invites you and your organization to participate in their Spring 2019 Career Fair on February 22, 2019. RSVP with john.cardillo@nyu.edu or 646-997-0565

Citymart BidSpark RFP opportunities:
+ for bikeshare, rideables to deploy in three cities in the Sacramento Metro area
+ in Dublin to combine urban tech to survey street signs coupled with services to clean them along the way
+ with The Los Angeles Department of Transportation, or LADOT, to modernize existing technology within the City’s Transit Services. 

Calling all cybersecurity innovators -- NYC and 8 global cities want to protect small businesses from cyber attacks! Up to $1 million in prizes and investment available.

Jobs

Marketing and Growth Manager at Borrow

Multiple roles at Flair

Head of Marketing at Treau

Junior Marketing Manager at Vigilant

BizOps Development Lead at Blueprint Power

And 59 more jobs from 15 Urban Us portfolio companies.

Urban Us

Sapient Industries launches their equity funding campaign on Republic

The Free Ride in the WSJ

Borrow gets a shout out from Autoblog

Coord selected by City of San Diego to participate in ground-breaking Startup in Residence program

ShopThrilling.com in Entrepreneur Magazine

Radiator Labs in the New York Times - Does My Apartment Have to Be So Hot in the Winter?

10 Urban Us portfolio companies are in the Govtech 2019 Top 100: Mark43, Citymart, OneConcern, Rachio, CoInspect, Coord, SeamlessDocs, Roadbotics, LiveStories and HaaS Alert.

World Tour 2019

We’d love to meet you in the coming weeks at one of our World Tour stops -  Taipei, London, Paris, Tel Aviv and more. Please let us know where you’d like to meet and we’ll follow up with more information.

Best

- Mark, Liz, Anthony, Shaun & Stonly

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