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First Funders12: First checks building the future of cities since 2012 led to unicorn investments and $215M in AUM - Julie & Clara, Urban Innovation FundAn ill-fated business school fashion show led to a venture capital fund with $215 million AUM. The duo met in 2010 at the MIT Sloan School of Management and soon after became research partners investigating why VCs were shunning startups in highly regulated spaces even though AirBnB and Uber were starting to reach venture scale very quickly. Tech-enabled startups impacting how we live in the real world were new (back then). Their research sparked Tumml in 2012, an early-stage accelerator, and culminated with the Urban Innovation Fund I in 2016. Now on their third fund with $215M in A...2024-09-241h 18
1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast566th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Julie Lein, Urban Innovation Fund - 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast
Julie Lein, Managing Partner at Urban Innovation Fund, discusses pre-seed and seed funding in companies focused on the betterment of cities.
2022-03-0523 min
Voices of Women in Venture 🌊Clara Brenner of Urban Innovation Fund - Venture Unlocked 026 Podcast: Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managers (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Clara Brenner of Urban Innovation Fund - Venture Unlocked 026Pub date: 2021-03-16Notes from Voices of Women in Venture 🌊:Clara Brenner, co-founder and Managing Partner of the Urban Innovation Fund. (https://www.urbaninnovationfund.com)Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn this week’s show, we’re lucky to have on Clara Brenner, co-founder of the Urban Innovation Fund which provides seed capital and regulatory support to...2021-04-1936 min
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managersClara Brenner of Urban Innovation Fund - Venture Unlocked 026On this week’s show, we’re lucky to have on Clara Brenner, co-founder of the Urban Innovation Fund which provides seed capital and regulatory support to entrepreneurs shaping the future of our cities. Along with her co-founder Julie Lein, their story is very compelling, from how they raised their first fund (from primarily strategic investors and special interest investors) to how they help founders unlock large businesses by helping them navigate regulatory hurdles. Prior to starting Urban Innovation Fund, Clara was the co-founder and CEO of TUMML, an accelerator and startup hub focused on urba...2021-03-1636 min
Mission DrivenMission Driven - Episode 3 - Julie Lein (Urban Innovation Fund)Julie Lein, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Urban Innovation Fund, a venture firm that invests in the future of cities.
'Mission Driven' is a conversation about startup founders on a mission to address the world’s biggest challenges and how they leverage their social mission for competitive advantage. Today Connor and I explored, in particular, how he leverages his mission for hiring.
Urban Innovation Fund is a venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed stage startups shaping the future of cities. They invest in areas such as transportation, energy, water, the future of work, all...2020-01-1527 min
Voices of Women in Venture 🌊Clara Brenner: the VC investing in social entrepreneurs for a better urban future Podcast: Secret Leaders (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Clara Brenner: the VC investing in social entrepreneurs for a better urban futurePub date: 2019-03-05Notes from Voices of Women in Venture 🌊:Featuring Clara Brenner, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Urban Innovation Fund (https://www.urbaninnovationfund.com/)Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationClara Brenner is co-founder and Managing Partner of the Urban Innovation Fund, a venture capital firm she established to invest in the future of cities. She had a vision...2019-08-2846 min
Secret LeadersClara Brenner: the VC investing in social entrepreneurs for a better urban futureClara Brenner is co-founder and Managing Partner of the Urban Innovation Fund, a venture capital firm she established to invest in the future of cities. She had a vision to empower entrepreneurs keen to solve urban problems, and so with business partner Julie Lein, she is helping grow tomorrow’s most valued companies.The UIF provides seed capital and regulatory support to social entrepreneurs looking to create solutions to tough urban challenges, such as transportation, work force, housing in the built environment and education, amongst others.Clara’s journey began in Washington DC where the two...2019-03-0546 min
10,000 NOsHow to Build Your Own Empire When Others Don't Give You What You Want, Social Media Icon Simonetta LeinIt's hard to imagine how Simonetta Lein accomplishes all that she does. She has over 1 Million extremely engaged Instagram followers who find inspiration in her messages of female empowerment and fashion. She's a successful model and journalist, and she runs a charity, The Wishwall Foundation, that helps others express and experience their wishes. But when we spoke, I learned that all of this was created as a reaction to something that happened to her when she was in her early 20's back in Italy. She and her now-husband decided to pick up their lives, leave their families and move...2019-03-0149 min
Leading Voices in Real EstateClara Brenner | Venture Capitalist Making City-Living EasierClara Brenner is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of the Urban Innovation Fund, a venture capital firm that provides seed capital and regulatory support to the tech startups addressing the challenges facing urban dwellers. Clara and I had a wide-ranging discussion about her career, business, and the startups and technologies in which her firm has invested.Real Estate and GovernmentGrowing up in Washington, D.C., Clara was surrounded by real estate and government, and found herself drawn to both. Her undergrad thesis explored the historic relationship between real estate developers and...2018-08-2058 min
Social Entrepreneur109, Clara Brenner, Urban Innovation Fund and Tumml | Creating an EcosystemClara Brenner is creating a startup ecosystem for urban innovation. More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas. Globally, 512 cities have at least 1 million inhabitants. With urbanization comes unique challenges, from transportation to public health.
To meet these challenges, entrepreneurs need a unique blend of business and political savvy. Clara Brenner and her co-founder Julie Lein are dedicated to solving core urban problems. Together, they co-founded the Urban Innovation Fund and also Tumml.
Tumml is an accelerator whose mission is to empower entrepreneurs to solve urban problems. Their 33 portfolio companies have raised over $35 million in in...2016-10-0327 min
The KulturecastAnimal FarmWe continue on with our Page to Screen month, where we look at films that are based off of books, with the 1999 live-action version of Animal Farm. The book deals with the terror of communism as shown allegorically through animals taking back a farm from the farmers. The voice actors in the film are quite well known: Patrick Stewart, Kelsey Grammer, Julie Louis-Dreyfus. It's an interesting film that is not for kids, even though it was made by Hallmark and features talking animals. We also spoke with John Stephenson, who directed the film, about what it was like to work wit...2015-08-0647 min
INNOVATE PODCASTS - Arch Street PressClara Brenner and Tumml: Accelerating and Scaling Social Impact in Urban Spaces
Clara Brenner is the CEO and cofounder of Tumml, a nonprofit urban ventures accelerator located in San Francisco. Tumml offers seed funding, mentorship and resources to some of the most innovative entrepreneurs across the country to increase their models' success to solve some of the most pressing issues faced by urban communities—homelessness, mobility, water and resource management, et al. Clara and her cofounder Julie Lein have provided resources for over 15 urban innovation ventures to make each organization's mission of urban development a reality.
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