| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.06.2024 | Lectrium Launches New Suite of Digital Tools to Help Automotive Dealerships Sell Electric Vehicles | Tools help to address consumer concerns around battery range, charging times and vehicle cost
BROOKLYN, N.Y., June 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Lectrium, a technology and software company designing tools to help dealerships adapt to selling ele... |
| 11.01.2022 | 5 startups present at BMW-backed accelerator Urban-X’s 10th demo day | Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more
Urban-X, a startup accelerator backed by venture capital fund Urban Us and BMW’s Mini to suppo... |
| 11.01.2022 | 5 startups poised to solve urban problems | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Urban-X, a startup accelerator backed by venture ... |
| 01.06.2021 | BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke : URBAN-X STARTUP ACCELERATOR BY MINI AND URBAN US GRADUATES NINTH STARTUP COHORT WITH FIRST-EVER URBAN-X SUMMIT. | The three-day summit features eight early-stage start-ups alongside energy, real estate, and city experts on the power of innovation in tackling our most pressing urban and climate challenges
Brooklyn, NY (June 1, 2021) - URBAN-X, the leadi... |
| 18.05.2021 | Dorothy is a startup that offers faster cash post-disaster | When disaster strikes, costs pile up quickly. Flood waters can wipe out the foundation of a home or building, just as much as wildfires can burn down the walls or the entire structure. For residents and business owners, rebuilding and rebui... |
| 28.04.2021 | Innovative ideas for more sustainability: BMW Group invites startups worldwide to collaborate | Munich. The BMW Group has set itself ambitious goals to increase sustainability. To achieve this aim, the company is inviting startups worldwide to participate in the Open Call 360° Sustainability Challenge.
Collaboration with young compani... |
| 28.04.2021 | BMW AG
Innovative ideas for more sustainability: BMW Group invites startups worldwide to collaborate | Munich. The BMW Group has set itself ambitious goals to increase sustainability. To achieve this aim, the company is inviting startups worldwide to participate in the Open Call 360° Sustainability Challenge.
Collaboration with young compani... |
| 28.01.2021 | Urban-X launches its latest cohort as the world catches up to the accelerator’s climate thesis | Urban-X, the accelerator launched by the venture capital fund Urban US and BMW’s MINI subsidiary to invest in companies that primarily address sustainable and resilient living in the cities of the future, has launched its latest cohort.
Thi... |
| 31.10.2020 | How technology and policy can mitigate climate effects in an age of colliding crises | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Today, the federal government spends less than $9... |
| 31.10.2020 | How technology and policy can mitigate climate effects in an age of colliding crises | Today, the federal government spends less than $9 billion annually on energy innovation, which is less than a quarter of what it invests in health innovation and less than a tenth of what it invests in defense innovation. As we sit at a cro... |
| 19.10.2020 | Xtelligent Next-Generation Signals Use Algorithms And Artificial Intelligence To Reduce Road Traffic | Xtelligent has received the green light from federal and local governments in the United States to ... [+] upgrade traffic signal networks.getty |
| 22.06.2020 | Cities are wrestling with a potential new exodus in the COVID-19 era, but Urban-X still believes in their future | Embodying the tensions that cities across the world face as they wrestle with controlling a pandemic in dense, urban environments, Urban-X, the accelerator for technology startups focused on the problems cities face, has launched its eighth... |
| 26.03.2020 | Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 is impacting real estate & proptech | Several months ago, we surveyed more than 20 leading real estate VCs to learn about what was exciting them most in the real estate tech sector and hear their opinions on proptech trends like co-working, flexible office space and remote offi... |
| 17.03.2020 | New York based Urban-X Accelerator invests $150K in Hades.ai | Under nearly every road, there is a sewer whereby in the US and Europe alone, there are about 2.4 million miles of public sewers with an average age of 45 years in the US. Moreover, the drains were designed to last 50-80 years. However, the... |
| 17.03.2020 | New York based Urban-X Accelerator invests $150K in Hades.ai | |
| 04.12.2019 | The Urban.Us and BMW Mini accelerator focused on urban innovation names its latest cohort | URBAN-X, the accelerator program focused on companies developing technologies to increase the sustainability, resiliency and efficiency of cities, has selected seven companies for its latest cohort.
Operating as a partnership between BMW’s ... |
| 14.11.2019 | Where top VCs are investing in real estate and proptech (Part 1 of 2) | The multi-trillion dollar global real estate market is getting flipped on its head.
Business model innovation, data accessibility and the proliferation of mobile, SaaS and other cloud-native software have already given rise to a cohort of t... |
| 26.09.2019 | This MINI-backed startup accelerator is using tech to combat climate change | As cities around the globe contend with the impacts of climate change, and search for new human-centric solutions in safety, energy, food systems, and social infrastructure a new generation of leadership is answering the call.
That’s one r... |
| 06.06.2019 | Urbantech accelerator URBAN-X launches sixth startup cohort | URBAN-X, a leading accelerator for startups reimagining city life, today announced its sixth cohort of companies. URBAN-X is part of the Innovation and Brand Strategy practice at MINI and partners with venture firm, Urban.Us. The seven star... |
| 06.06.2019 | Urban-X accelerator backs seven new companies pitching services for the world’s cities | Urban-X, the startup accelerator for companies focused on solving the problems facing the world’s urban environment, has selected the latest seven companies for its sixth cohort.
Backed by the design arm of BMW’s Mini division and the ventu... |
| 01.05.2019 | Top startup news for today, Wednesday, May 1, 2019 | Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Wednesday, May 1.
Motus Ventures launches $30 million Smart World Innovation Fund. Motus Ventures, a seed stage venture capital fund and business accelerator investing i... |
| 30.04.2019 | 7 startups present at BMW-backed accelerator Urban-X’s 5th demo day | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Urban-X, a startup accelerator backed by BMW’s Mini and urban tech venture fund Urban Us, today graduated its fifth cohort of startup c... |
| 30.04.2019 | 7 startups present at BMW-backed accelerator Urban-X’s 5th demo day | Urban-X, a startup accelerator backed by BMW’s Mini and urban tech venture fund Urban Us, today graduated its fifth cohort of startup companies at a demo day event held at its Brooklyn headquarters. The seven startups in this year’s class —... |
| 15.04.2019 | The other micro VC allocation model | Shaun Abrahamson Contributor
Shaun Abrahamson is a managing partner at Urban Us Ventures and serves on the Investment Committee at URBAN-X.
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| 06.02.2019 | NYC launches partnership network, ‘The Grid,’ to help grow urban tech ecosystem | The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and CIV:LAB — a nonprofit dedicated to connecting urban tech leaders — have announced the launch of The Grid, a member-based partnership network for New York’s urban tech community... |
| 14.11.2018 | RoadBotics Secures $3.9M To Transform Road Management | RoadBotics, developer of advanced computer vision technology for inspecting roads and infrastructure, has raised $3.9M in its series seed round of financing, led by Boston-based Hyperplane Venture Capital. The capital will help the company ... |
| 27.09.2018 | Our 3 favorite startups from Urban-X’s 4th demo day | Urban-X, the urban-tech startup accelerator backed by MINI and early-stage urban-tech fund Urban.Us, hosted at its Brooklyn HQ a demo day today for its fourth cohort of companies. The seven presenting companies offered solutions to issues p... |
| 20.09.2018 | Lunewave is pitching a new sensor offering better vision for autonomous vehicles | The investment arms of BMW and the Chinese search technology giant, Baidu, along with a large original equipment manufacturer for the auto industry and a slew of technology investors, have all come together to back Lunewave, a startup devel... |
| 19.07.2018 | With new tech coming online, cities need a department of urban testing | Shaun Abrahamson Contributor
Shaun Abrahamson is a managing partner at Urban Us Ventures and serves on the Investment Committee at URBAN-X.
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| 06.12.2017 | Here’s who won the Technical.ly Brooklyn Awards last night | The best and the brightest in the Brooklyn tech world came together Tuesday night for the Technical.ly Brooklyn Awards, held at WeWork Dumbo Heights.
The night is always a good one to see what’s going on at the most creative and adventurous... |
| 29.11.2017 | Women in Agtech: Amanda Weeks Says Female Founders Have to Jump Through More Hoops to Get Investors Excited | Amanda Weeks is cofounder and CEO of Industrial/Organic, which means she’s not just a women in agtech, she’s also a woman in the male-dominated world of waste.
Industrial/Organic is an norganic waste recycling operation that began in Brookl... |
| 21.08.2017 | The 8 Top Cleantech Corporate Incubators and Accelerators | Corporations need to stay competitive in their industries, and that cutting edge can be tough to keep up with, particularly for the most rapidly shifting industries out there. As a sector evolves, the source of a revolutionary new tech coul... |
| 21.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, June 21 | YES, MORE UBER
🚨 Travis Kalanick is permanently out as CEO of Uber.🚨
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• Investors did this. Benchmark, First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital, Menlo Ventures, and Fi... |
| 31.05.2017 | How should startups work with city governments? | Shaun Abrahamson Contributor
Shaun Abrahamson is a managing partner at Urban Us Ventures and serves on the Investment Committee at URBAN-X.
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With new tech coming online, cities need a department of urban testin... |
| 17.05.2017 | The very simple argument for the rise of co-living: people need people | People, people who need people, are the luckiest people in the world.
So go the lyrics of the famous Barbra Streisand song. It was also a theme at a future of cities panel at Disrupt today, where the discussion came back and time again to c... |
| 08.05.2017 | Columbus welcomes urban problem solvers with new accelerator | Every American city wishes it could better support technology, entrepreneurship and infrastructure, unfortunately few actually have the resources to set truly ambitious goals into motion. But Columbus, Ohio, having secured $40 million in gr... |
| 06.05.2017 | Urban-X’s investors showcase features high-tech face masks, navigation for the blind and more | The Urban-X investors showcase is a closed-door event that shows off eight different incubated startups to potential investors and press. I stopped by earlier this week to see what the fuss was about.
Of the eight companies in Urban-X’s 02 ... |
| 15.03.2017 | Applications are open for the next Urban-X cohort | Working on an alternative to factory farming? Or a way to shore up the social safety net?
Those are among the sorts of ideas that Urban-X is looking to fund. The Greenpoint-based accelerator for “smart cities” startups is accepting applicat... |
| 09.03.2017 | Meet the latest cohort of Urban-X startups | As we reported Monday, New York City’s chief technology and digital officers recently talked about their plans for making our city a truly “smart” place. But that discussion was just a prelude to the main event inside Greenpoint makerspace ... |
| 02.03.2017 | BMW’s Mini Drives Urban Tech’s Future With New Greenpoint Spot | Above the main common area, the skylight has been made as a periscope that lets people who look up see out onto the Manhattan skyline.
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The space has lots and lots of LCD screens.
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Micah Kotch i... |
| 17.01.2017 | Where do we go from here? Towards a unified Brooklyn tech future | More than two dozen of Brooklyn’s sharpest entrepreneurs, civic leaders, artists and engineers squeezed into a conference room at the Dumbo Heights WeWork prior to the Brooklyn Innovation Awards to talk about what’s next for Brooklyn tech.
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| 14.11.2016 | Investing in the future of urbanization | For roughly a year, Niko Bonatsos, a managing director at the venture firm General Catalyst Partners, didn’t make a single investment. He was meeting with startups daily, as it’s his job to do. But Bonatsos, who steered General Catalyst to ... |
| 28.10.2016 | 8 ‘smart cities’ startups that Greenpoint’s Urban-X accelerator is hype on | With temperatures approaching 100 degrees at night in New York City, the summer of 2016 was the hottest on record. So far this year, the planet’s average temperature has been 2.4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the late 19th century, accordi... |
| 26.08.2016 | This hardware-focused accelerator for ‘smart cities’ is launching in Greenpoint | Urban-X, a hardware-focused accelerator program for companies “shaping the future of cities through technology,” is moving from Manhattan to Brooklyn. It’ll launch its second cohort this fall at A/D/O, a design-focused center opening in Gre... |
| 04.04.2016 | Stae wants to prepare cities for the future | Meet Stae, a New York-based startup that wants to make cities and tech startups work together. Major cities are getting denser and facing bigger challenges. And yet, innovation is coming from private companies. These companies are starting ... |
| 15.01.2016 | BMW MINI Teams Up With HAX To Build A NYC Accelerator Focused On Connected Cities Of The Future | What will the city of the future look like? We’re starting to see new technologies capable of helping future urban populations share more resources, reduce costs and communicate in new ways and BMW’s MINI would like to be at the forefront o... |
