Urban Innovation Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that provides seed capital and regulatory support to entrepreneurs building technologies that shape the future of cities. The firm invests in startups transforming massive, regulated industries across areas like transportation, energy, fintech, and government tech.
30% of their portfolio is in Fintech. Deal activity increased 100% year-over-year (2 deals in the last 12 months). Average disclosed round size is $22.3M (across 54 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
41
Fund Size
$121M
Top Stage
Series A
Last 12 Mo
2
Team
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
63 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Exante | Unknown | $2.6M | Apr 2026 |
 Variance | Series A | $21.5M | Jan 2026 |
 Sent | Series A | $12M | Jan 2026 |
 Variance | Series A | $21.5M | Jan 2026 |
 Allocate | Series B | $30M | Sep 2025 |
 Ethic | Series D | $64M | Apr 2025 |
| Sent | Seed | $3.5M | Jan 2025 |
| Exante | Pre-Seed | $2.6M | Jan 2025 |
 TestParty | Seed | $4M | Jun 2024 |
 Byterat | Seed | $4M | Oct 2023 |
 SolarCycle | Series A | $30M | Mar 2023 |
 Ferrum Health | Seed | $6M | Jan 2023 |
 Ferrum | Series A | $16M | Jan 2023 |
| BBundle.Build | Seed | $4.7M | Jan 2023 |
 Kyte | Series B | $60M | Nov 2022 |
 Apply Design | Seed | $3.3M | Nov 2022 |
| Ethic | Series C | — | Sep 2022 |
| Allocate | Series A | $15.3M | May 2022 |
 Jeeves | Series C | $180M | Mar 2022 |
 Ethic | Series C | $50M | Jan 2022 |
| EEthic, Inc. | Series C | $50M | Jan 2022 |
| Jeeves | Series C | $180M | Jan 2022 |
| Kyte | Series A | — | Oct 2021 |
 Kyte | Series A | — | Oct 2021 |
 Dataships | Seed | — | Sep 2021 |
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Top Co-Investors
Y Combinator14 shared
Kapor Capital9 shared
Nyca Partners7 shared
Sound Ventures7 shared
Andreessen Horowitz6 shared
Oak HC/FT6 shared
Clocktower Technology Ventures5 shared
Stanford University5 shared
Fidelity Investments5 shared
500 Global5 shared
Okta Ventures4 shared
645 Ventures4 shared
Anthemis3 shared
Silicon Valley Bank3 shared
Spike Ventures3 shared
CRV3 shared
Gaingels3 shared
1984 Ventures3 shared
UBS3 shared
Wireframe Ventures3 shared
Last updated: 7 October 2026