The document proposes a global platform for urban innovation to address challenges related to urban growth, health, climate change, employment, education, and infrastructure through local solutions. It aims to connect urban innovation ecosystems and catalyze scaling solutions by bridging knowledge gaps between innovators, cities, and strategic partners. The platform would establish urban tech hubs and labs in cities around the world to provide startups access to strategic partnerships, market opportunities, and blended public-private funding to pilot, demo, and scale their products and solutions.

1. THE GLOBAL PLATFORM
FOR URBAN INNOVATION

2. ● Urban Growth
● Health
● Climate Change
● Employment
● Education
● Infrastructure
GLOBAL CHALLENGES

4. LOCAL SOLUTIONS
We live in a moment of
unprecedented innovation,
entrepreneurial energy, and
possibility.
Cities are the laboratories of the
21st century. Citizens are the
new scientists.

5. Catalyzing urban
innovation ecosystems
to scale solutions

6. The Opportunity
Connecting urban innovation
ecosystems

7. City government lacks knowledge
and access to urban solutions

8. Urban innovators lack knowledge
and access to strategic partnerships
and market entry opportunities

9. Venture Capital is not enough:
sales cycles are long, returns
are low and companies need
more opportunities to pilot
and demo their products and
solutions

10. Opportunity
Gaps
● Knowledge Gap: exchange
between innovators, cities,
and strategic partners
● Perception Gap: between
global north and global
south
● Access Gap: access to
opportunities to demo, pilot
and scale solutions

11. Private
Sector
University
Community
+Citizens
Government
Hub/
Incubator
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12. Private
Sector
University
Community
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Government
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CITY "Y"
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14. Urban Tech Sites:
Global urban innovation hubs

15. First Round
Targets

16. Blended Finance: Public and Private Support for
Innovation
Ideation
and
R&D
Tech Product Seed
Funding
Series A
Funding
Series B
Funding
Series C
Funding
Series D
Funding
Accelerator Support
Incubator Support
Exit
❏ Academia
❏ Research Institutions
❏ Government
❏ Angels
❏ Universities
❏ Research Institutions
❏ Government
Incubator Alumni Support
❏ Venture Capital
❏ Universities
❏ Government
❏ Developers
❏ Utilities
Pilots and Demonstrations
❏ Venture Capital
❏ Institutional Investment
❏ Developers
❏ Utilities
Resource
and
Capital
Support

17. A global platform for
urban innovation,
connecting entrepreneurs
with government,
academia, business, and
community within their
cities and around the
world.