21. CAN WE HELP REDUCE FAILURE?
Adapted from CBInsights
Don’t Understand
Customer Needs
Ignore
Customers
Wrong Team
Poor
Customer
Comms
Team
Discord
Cash
Other
Outcompeted
Price Issues
Poor
Product
Business
Model
25. HOW CAN WE CHOOSE BETTER?
Just closed
Series A at
$65m post
Just closed
Series A at
$70m post
Source: Urban Us Survey
26. WHAT PROBLEMS ARE UNDERSERVED?
URBANTECH DEALS
(BAY AREA)
Source: Urban Us
& Crunchbase
27. WHERE SHOULD WE FOCUS?
Mobility
Utilities
Built Environment
Government
Other
Source: Urban Us Survey
What’s in here?
28. HOW CAN WE BE MORE DELIBERATE
ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH?
“These buildings
are actually
making children
sick,”
29. RISE OF THE REST?
Source: Urban Us Portfolio Data
30. SHOULD WE INVEST EARLIER?
Seed(angels,MicroVC)
SeriesB,C,etc
< Valley of Death
PublicMarkets
Pre-seed(FF,accel.)
REVENUES/USERS
SeedII(MicroVC)
PostSeed(MicroVC)
TIME
SeriesA(VC)
32. URBANTECH LEADERSHIP SPOTLIGHT
TOUR WITH
MAY
Boston
NYC
LA
JUNE
Montreal
DC
Portland
Seattle
SF
NYC
Austin
Chicago
JULY
Barcelona
Paris
London
Moscow
Berlin
Montreal
Munich
Amsterdam
SEPTEMBER
Singapore
33. RESEARCH - URBANTECH HUB ANALYSIS
Source: Urban Us & Crunchbase
Percent of total Urbantech Deals in each region
PERCENT OF URBANTECH DEALS IN 2016
34. ANGEL INVESTORS
Kenneth Chenault
Bre Pettis
Dave Waiser
Joanne Wilson
Victoria Grace
Esther Dyson
Bob Pasker
ACCELERATORS
Techstars
ACRE
1776
URBAN-X
Grand Central Tech
ERA
MetaProp
R/G/A
VENTURE CAPITAL
Thrive Capital
RRE Ventures
Lerer Hippeau Ventures
General Catalyst
Two Sigma Ventures
BoxGroup
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
Collaborative Fund
Urban Us
Source: Urban Us & Crunchbase
RESEARCH - URBANTECH HUB ANALYSIS
(LEADING NYC URBANTECH INVESTORS)
38. FUNDING - EXPAND FUNDING OPTIONS
+ 43 Backers
+ ~$280,000 Backing
+ Strong platform & process
+ NEW
+ Mission Focused
+ Benefits from angel.co learnings
+ Now over 400 investors
+ LPs interested in direct deals
+ More focus on strategics
39. FUNDING - URBAN US CAPITAL FOR XaaS
Chart: Saasmetrics Blog
Help hardware
startups to
become XaaS
companies