According to the UN World Urbanization Prospects, 54% of the world’s population live in urban regions, and projections suggest this will increase to 66% by 2050. In addition, megacities are increasing while rural populations are shrinking.
Cities not only offer opportunities for economic development but it is also often cheaper and more environmentally friendly to provide basic services in densely populated areas rather than rural areas. In other words, sustainable urbanization is key to successful development.
At Urbantech, we believe that the best way to create impact at scale is through corporate-startup engagement. Startups bring innovative ideas and technologies that can solve today’s fundamental problems, while corporates have the experience and resources to bring these ideas to scale.
We bring together the world’s best urbantech startups with our corporate partners, COWI, EWII and VKR/VELUX in Copenhagen, Denmark to help accelerate the development of sustainable cities.
Cogo gathers shared rides for frictionless mobility and a better tomorrow. Cogo is an app gathering all shared scooters, bikes, cars and mopeds as long as they are human or electric powered.
Skipits mission is to allow everyone to travel like a local and make it easier for travellers and tourists to use public transport in some of the worlds biggest cities.
Pluto helps municipalities with safer and longer-lasting roads through AI monitoring ensuring that roads stretch the extra mile.
BuildCode enables construction managers to connect construction reality to VDC, thereby ensuring that the project gets delivered on time, quality and economy.
Constructive.io is a startup with the aim of creating a better financial collaboration for the construction industry.
DeNoize combines years of experience with cutting edge technology, through the worlds first smart glass system that transforms any glass facade into a noise-cancelling system, offering up to 90% reduction against the outdoor noise.
Excess Materials Exchange is a B2B SaaS platform. The platform unlocks the potential of the worlds excess materials and products by matching them to their highest value uses.
Kobots develops collaborative, mobile, voice-responsive robots that help and support workers, initially in the construction industry.
Treble is developing a new cloud-based software product for dealing with soundand acoustics in the built environment. The software builds on a simulationengine that models the acous- tics of spaces.
Eliq offers utilities a SaaS platform that allows them to build strong relationships and grow non-commodity revenue with customers.
The FlexShape platform of smart energy applications and tools, helps energy communities to utilize available energy flexibility to balance green energy production with consumption and save CO2, energy costs, and grid reinforcement.
Linc enables detailed monitoring and control of building parameters by a hardware and software technology for the digitization of buildings.
OrxaGrid provide smart solutions through retrofitting IoT sensor devices on critical grid nodes and predicting efficiency improvements.
Powerfox provides a solution that makes household energy data available for various parties on a scalable platform.
Miru is commercializing electrochromic windows (smart glass) with disruptively low manufacturing costs for the residential, and commercial real estate market.
NEXTs cutting edge solar technology transforms windows into energy producing assets with unsurpassed aesthetics, performance, and economics.
Solartes is developing a unique smart material that harvests and stores solar energy during the day and releases the energy as heat during the night.
WattGlass provides innovative water-based sustainable coatings that increase the performance of glass used in everyday applications, such as windows, solar panels, and LED lighting.
CAALA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hrI4qRBPiM CAALA Profile CAALA enables designers in early-stage projects to take-out the complexity in lifecycle calculations of sustainability, energy and cost, and communicate the
Bimsync by Catenda saves time, money and the environment. It is the next generation cloud based collaboration platform where construction information comes alive.
Parametric Solutions provides technology-driven and intelligent solutions for early stage design processes. We offer a cloud-based platform that helps property developers and architects make informed decisions and create better urban environments.
Procedural designs and develops digital tools that allow clients to run and manage engineering workflows and calculations lowering their risk and reducing technical bottlenecks in their workflows.
VisiLean helps reduce wastage of both materials and time during construction projects through improving planning and coordination through a cloud-based construction and design management service.
Anyware offers a unique Customer Engagement and Analytics Platform for partners based on data collected by the award-winning Smart Adaptor.
CLIMAID helps consulting engineers to do a cost-effective, yet comprehensive indoor climate screening, by collecting indoor climate data and building users comfort level.
AIRBOXLABs Foobot monitors 24/7 indoor air pollution and creates Demand Control ventilation, filtration and purification through algorithms.
Moeco is a blockchain-powered platform designed to provide global IoT connectivity.
RYSTA facilitates sustainable protection of Real Estate assets by providing a modular IoT monitoring solution to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
Woodsense provides an IoT solution that monitors wooden structures & sends alarms when damages occur.
Airplant is an IoT product that automatically improves indoor climate in your local environment.
Breeze Technologies is an industry leader in air quality sensors, data, and analytics. The startup provides hyperlocal air quality and climate data to help cities and corporates design more efficient clean air action plans.
PurCity has developed a self-cleaning and highly-efficient air purification system that can be easily integrated into any new or existing building and turn them into large scale air purification systems.
Through modern technology, Arked has reinvented architectural services making it accessible for private houseowners, who otherwise normally use prefab-house companies or other non-architect / standard solutions.
InfoTiles Profile InfoTiles is a Nordic independent software company with a mission to create smarter and more sustainable cities by making sense of data. InfoTiles
Legacy is a digital platform that helps small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) become Lean, Green, and Compliant.
A software solution based on inverse analysis, cloud computing and machine learning algorithms to minimize geotechnical uncertainties.
SorptionShade is an exterior aluminum sunscreen that is also a solar panel. It is connected to a sorption cooled ventilation system.
Cost-effective digital platform that connects citizens to their municipalities and members to their organizations to foster democratic participation and to co-create solutions to improve quality of life and wellbeing in the community.
Here’s some of the feedback we shared with the 10 startups that pitched as part of a pre-WDBE event organized and hosted by KIRAhub. It
Christian is former Director in NREP, the leading Nordic private equity real estate manager. He recently co- founded 2150, a European sustainable venture capital fund
Eithne is the Programme Director for the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and responsible for the strategic development and delivery of the Accelerator Programme for
