Urban Future Lab
Portfolio Companies
Since 2009, we have worked with 170+ teams of innovators. We are proud to champion the brightest minds in climatetech innovation on their journey to scaling their transformative solutions by providing them support in fundraising, workforce development, customer acquisition, and much more.
How UFL helps companies
Connecting purpose-driven companies, communities, and capital to advance market-ready climate solutions.
01. Assessment of Market Fit and Positioning
To guarantee that our member companies align with our mission, we assess essential factors such as leadership quality, technological readiness, solution maturity, social impact, and the potential for widespread deployment during our rigorous down selection process.
02. Bespoke Approach to Commercialization
We understand that each venture is unique, and as such, we tailor our support to address the specific needs and challenges of each company. This personalized strategy involves a deep dive into the intricacies of the technology, market dynamics, and business model of the startup.
03. Continuous Growth and Support
By maintaining an active role in the development of our member companies, we aim to create an ecosystem where innovative solutions not only survive but thrive. This involves ongoing mentorship, access to industry experts, networking opportunities, collaborative initiatives, fundraising support, and more.
Current Companies
Air Company is the world's most sustainable alcohol company, using proprietary technology to transform carbon dioxide from the air into the purest alcohol on the planet.
Ardent is a process technology company that is developing membrane-based solutions for point-source carbon capture and other chemical separations.
Boxkite Software develops a rapid online analysis system that quickly produces up to bankable-level accuracy energy yield assessments. This allows for swift site feasibility analysis, comparing different farm layout options, and iterating site design.
Cadence OneFive's SaaS platform delivers streamlined workflows and unprecedented transparency to speed up climate-responsive retrofits in existing multifamily buildings.
Camfridge's solid-state cooling technology cuts carbon and reduces the cost of refrigeration for commercial users.
CarbonBlue develops a chemical process that mineralizes and extracts CO₂ from water, which then reabsorbs more atmospheric CO₂.
Claviate provides a visual data platform, using strategically placed cameras and sensors that record every step of the construction process. AI software collates and anonymizes the data, providing developers and OEMs with a transparent overview of progress.
The Danish Cleantech Hub is a US-Danish public-private partnership that is the single point of entry for all cleantech related activities between Denmark and New York.
Dollaride provides an innovative technology platform that connects people living in transportation deserts to private ride-sharing networks called “dollar vans.”
Eli makes electrification affordable and accessible to all by simplifying and automating rebates, incentives, and financing for electrification installers and their customers.
Faura builds climate resilience scoring into homeowners insurance, helping insurance companies expand their books of business into highly profitable risk areas like wildfire, hurricane, and flood zones.
Helix Earth Technologies revolutionizes liquid-gas chemistry by leveraging cutting-edge technology, originally developed for space at NASA to disrupt and decarbonize the built environment and heavy industries.
Indeximate supplies a fibre optic sensing technology for predictive maintenance of subsea power cables. By remotely profiling the integrity and condition, cable lifetimes are extended and inspection is targeted, cheaper, and more efficient. The technology is hardware agnostic.
Kensa is revolutionizing heating and cooling for hard-to-decarbonize homes with its ground-source heat pumps. Their ‘Networked Heat Pumps’ use boreholes installed in roads, allowing consumers to plug in low-carbon, energy-efficient systems, scaling from homes to entire city districts.
MacroCycle develops a chemical recycling process to turn polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyester-fiber waste into “virgin-grade” plastics.
Maple Materials develops an electrolysis process to convert CO₂ into graphite and oxygen.
Based in New York City, NineDot Energy® is a community energy solutions developer making the urban grid cleaner, more resilient, more equitable, and less costly.
Olsights creates affordable, web-based tools for clean energy data visualization, enabling quick decision-making in the energy transition. Their interactive tools help developers and authorities screen viable opportunities in Hydrogen, Carbon Capture Utilisation & Storage, and grid connections.
Oxylus Energy develops a direct electrochemical process to convert CO₂ into fuels and chemical feedstocks, such as methanol.
Pliant Energy Systems develops a highly maneuverable autonomous underwater vehicle with robotic propulsion technology. This efficient undulating propulsion system, with stealth characteristics and amphibious capabilities, enables new seafloor surveying capabilities.
Phlair develops a renewable-energy-powered Direct Air Capture (DAC) system using an electrochemical process for acid and base generation.
RenewCO₂ is developing an electrochemical process to convert CO₂ into fuels and chemicals, such as sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) or propylene glycol.
ReVentas has developed a novel dissolution recycling process that removes pigments and additives from post-consumer Polyethylene and Polypropylene, producing virgin-like plastic. Their technology helps companies meet sustainability goals by reducing reliance on virgin plastics and lowering GHG emissions.
Seabound builds carbon-capture equipment for new and existing ships.
Secant Fuel develops a one-step electrocatalytic process that converts flue gas into syngas.
Sensatek enables structural health monitoring of turbine blades by using video-based dynamic measurement analysis that extracts pixel-level vibration information. Utilizing ruggedized smart camera enclosures and motion extraction, the technology enables early detection and monitoring of damage progression.
SWTCH provides electric vehicle (EV) charging and energy management solutions for high-density urban settings.
Tailwind is an innovation studio focused on accelerating the deployment of climate adaptation and resilience solutions.
Triton Anchor develops a novel low-cost, silently installed, foundation installation system. The modular anchor design allows for all platform sizes and soil types, allowing for any mooring configuration and it is marine life friendly. Technology also allows local manufacturing and rapid fabrication.
Trust Electric Heating addresses Net Zero challenges with award-winning, smart heating technologies that maximize energy efficiency. Their British-made products offer significant savings on heating bills while delivering comfort and sustainability for domestic and commercial customers.
Turnover Labs is building the next generation of ultra-durable electrolyzers to recycle industrial facility emissions CO₂ into useful chemicals. By eliminating transit, compression, and refining costs, our technology seeks to decarbonize the most basic building blocks in the chemicals industry, and help manufacturers reduce their carbon footprint without the green premium.
WATS (Waste Administration + Tracking Software) helps businesses achieve waste reduction by quantifying the carbon footprint of the materials they discard, and automatically delivering action oriented steps to reduce impact.
Wavelength is an LED lighting and networked controls distributor and project company serving the tristate area.
Zeti is a fintech start-up solving the cost bottleneck of ZEV fleet adoption with a more flexible and transparent pay-as-you-go financing model.
Graduate Companies
475’s e-commerce platform provides High Performance, low energy, and Passive House building professionals with specialized products and knowledge resources.
Advanced Infrastructure builds AI-powered digital twins that help corporations emit less carbon.
Advanced Ionics enables green hydrogen production without the green premium.
Aluminum Technologies has developed Carbo-Chloride Reduction (CCR) aluminum manufacturing technology, which captures process CO₂ and also reduces power consumption relative to conventional methods.
Amperon builds real-time electricity demand forecasts for energy suppliers and utilities using smart meter data and AI.
Anellotech has developed a clean technology platform for inexpensively producing petrochemicals from renewable non-food biomass.
Arco Technologies develops a proprietary Anion Exchange Membrane electrolyzer with the lowest capital expenditures and operating expenses possible today.
Artemis is the premier indoor farming intelligence platform which helps growers collect and analyze growing data to make more profitable decisions.
Avvir automates construction inspections by comparing LiDAR scans to building designs.
Benchmark Labs provides hyper-accurate forecasts to turbines and buoys. Unlike traditional approaches, Benchmark Labs offers asset-specific environmental forecasts to high-value asset managers to increase opportunity costs and operational margins.
Bohr provides digital sensor solutions that enable the creation of green, fair, and profitable gas.
BlocPower delivers clean energy and energy efficiency solutions to underserved communities in American inner cities.
Brenmiller Energy uses its unique heat storage technology to provide low cost, sustainable energy storage solutions to the distributed generation market.
BuildStream is the clean energy sector labor marketplace. From sourcing and verification, to reporting and payments, we’ve got your workforce covered in one digital platform. We’re taking the hassle out of hiring so you can focus on real work out in the field.
C-Probe Systems produce smart, low-carbon cementitious materials, for the build, repair, protection and monitoring of all types of concrete and masonry structures.
Capro-X deploys a biorefining platform that upcycles organic waste to fatty-acid biochemicals that can be used in a wide range of applications.
Capture6 removes carbon from the atmosphere while producing clean water and other industrial products from seawater or other saltwater inputs.
Carbfix provides a natural and permanent carbon storage solution by turning CO₂ into stone underground.
Carbonfree has commercial technologies that capture and convert industrial CO₂ emissions into minerals for sale or storage.
Carbonova Corp utilizes CO₂ and methane as a feedstock to produce carbon nanofibers (CNF) that may be used in various fields such as transportation and buildings.
CarbonQuest provides decarbonization technologies and solutions for buildings with a focus on modular carbon capture.
Carbon Collective puts 401ks to work to solve climate change by divesting from CO₂ producing companies, investing in environmentally clean companies and voting proxies to encourage even better corporate behavior.
Carbon To Stone is developing a carbon mineralization technology coupled with high-value minerals and metals recovery.
Carbon Upcycling Technologies utilizes point-source CO₂ and mineralizes it with waste materials to create supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) that can be used in building materials.
Catagen is pioneering a green emissions testing facility based in Belfast, providing unrivaled metrics to optimize catalyst development and reduce harmful tailpipe emissions.
Celadyne accelerates industrial decarbonization with durable fuel cells and cheap green hydrogen.
Cemvita Factory engineers microorganisms to use CO₂ as feedstock for biomanufacturing of intermediate chemicals such as ethylene.
CERT converts CO₂ to chemicals such as ethylene via electrolysis.
Clean Power develops a novel, low-cost, highly durable hydrogen polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell delivering zero-emission electricity.
Crop Intellect Ltd is an R&D company developing technologies to improve crop productivity sustainably.
Dandelion provides affordable, renewable heating and cooling for the homeowners by inexpensively accessing the geothermal resources below our homes.
Demand Logic is a data analytics company which utilizes its award-winning technology & platform to optimize property performance, reduce carbon and energy wastage, improve comfort and create maintenance efficiencies.
DGEP Management is comprised of a nimble and experienced staff focused on building quality solar systems that create long-term value for our clients and investors.
Dioxycle is building an electrolysis platform to convert carbon emissions into chemicals and fuel building blocks.
Diverso Energy is a Geothermal Utility Company providing developers all of the benefits of geothermal while eliminating the entire capital cost and all the risk associated with the technology.
Dodona provides an AI-driven platform to help EV companies make informed decisions to identify where to deploy EV charging infrastructure and operate that infrastructure efficiently.
eCAMION USA, Inc. an advanced energy company, specializing in Energy Storage Integrated DC Fast Charge infrastructure. Our “Charge Hub” is able to manage the flow of power efficiently between the Electric Grid, Electric Vehicles, the Host Building and Distributed Generation resources.
Ecogy Energy develops distributed energy assets and deploys capital to help businesses, municipalities, nonprofits, and utilities reduce energy costs.
Ecolectro commercializes alkaline exchange materials that make electrolyzers and fuel cells less expensive and longer lasting.
ecoLocked converts waste biomass into biochar to create admixes that can replace a share of the cement used in concrete manufacturing, and thus sequester carbon within buildings.
EcoLogical monitors, assesses, and improves sustainability performance for real estate assets on a portfolio level.
EcoLogic Solutions is a manufacturer and distributor of environmentally preferable cleaning products and technologies for restaurants, offices, hospitals, hotels, schools, and other institutional users.
Electric Miles offers a smart charging system that integrates with existing chargers, allowing EV customers to optimize charging to a time when there is lower demand, when electricity is cheaper or more available, while still satisfying driver calendar and diary demands.
Electro-Active Technologies Inc. is developing a modular system to convert food waste and renewable electricity into affordable, renewable hydrogen.
Element Resources enables compressed hydrogen storage tank technology.
enaDyne develops non-thermal plasma catalysis reactors to convert CO₂ into chemicals and fuels.
Encycle’s patented Swarm Logic technology optimizes commercial and retail energy usage without affecting business operations.
Enerknol provides energy regulatory data streaming from the cloud.
Enertiv is a real estate technology company that streamlines building operations by digitizing the physical infrastructure of commercial real estate.
Envirovue optimizes waste and resource management by leveraging data analytics.
EVBox is the European Market leader in Electric Vehicle charging points, delivering high-quality, American-made equipment and smart software for parking garages, workplaces, and homes for U.S. customers.
Flucto's mission is to make the installation of offshore wind farms faster, more predictable and transparent to all stakeholders involved. With their bespoke sensors and software, the team is offering a one-stop-shop solution to scale up and bring wind farm installation to the digital age.
Full Cycle Bioplastics has a patented bacteria-based technology that converts organic waste into Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), a biopolymer that can be used to replace a wide range of oil-based plastic applications.
Global Algae Innovations grows algae that capture CO₂ from the atmosphere to produce protein and oil for food and industrial use.
Go Electric provides customer side of the meter solutions by integrating renewables, generators, batteries and advanced software to provide energy security and grid stability.
Grid Smarter Cities offers Kerb, a curbside management platform that identifies locations for flexible, dynamic loading zones. Using an app, drivers can search for, book and pay for time slots in these loading zones, which has information on locations, bookable days, times and tariffs (depending on congestion and the emissions of the vehicle). Grid Smarter Cities helps drivers avoid block, circling, idling, double-parking or parking in bike or bus lanes, reducing pollution and congestion.
H2GO Power is the developer of innovative hydrogen storage systems and software systems. H2GO Power's HY AI platform helps optimize design and control of hydrogen systems to reduce capex and opex. It aims to optimize control to maximize monetization and leverages IoT data from systems to create a digital twin version that can be modified to derive the greatest value.
Heerema Engineering Solutions provides engineering and consultancy for the construction of offshore renewable projects. Their tool, METIS, was developed to better estimate the duration of the offshore construction process, solving a major challenge in the offshore renewable market.
HEVO’s mission is to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles through the deployment of its wireless charging network.
Highview Power designs and develops large-scale energy storage solutions for utility and distributed power systems. Their Liquid Air Energy Storage technology offers locatable, low-cost systems scalable up to 1GWh+.
Honest Building collaboratively track project costs, intelligently level bids and generate portfolio-wide insights.
Connected to regular gas grid HYGEN's supercharger fuels your gas-powered vehicle at home/office in just a few minutes.
ISB Global develops software to integrate, automate, and simplify to drive greater operational efficiency, productivity, and profitability for organizations that operate in the waste, recycling, clean energy, and environmental sector. Creating clean, efficient operations that contribute positively to the environment and circular economy.
Jet Connectivity is a provider of communications for offshore wind farms, serving both the survey installation and commissioning phase, and providing resilience to fiber optic failures.
Keen Home makes intelligent room-by-room zoning and indoor air purification with the Keen Home Smart Vent. More Comfort. More Efficiency. Cleaner Air.
Kelvin’s smart radiator covers, heat pumps, and thermal batteries save money, reduce carbon emissions, and enable pinpoint temperature control for apartments in legacy buildings.
Levelise is a one-stop-shop for residential flexibility.
LimeLoop combines reusable packaging and smart technology to create an efficient, profitable reusable shipping program while saying goodbye to single-use packaging.
Lumiode is working on the next generation of microdisplay technology for portable, head-worn, high brightness, energy efficient, transparent, daylight-readable displays.
Lydian develops an electro-thermal reactor technology that converts captured CO₂ into fuels and chemicals.
Maalka is an open, scalable platform for managing people, analytics, and communications across data-driven sustainability programs.
Made of Air creates drop-in ready, durable thermoplastics using carbon captured by biomass.
Mars Materials develops new pathways for carbon fiber production using CO₂ as a raw material.
MeteoViva provides smart predictive capabilities to existing static building management systems to reduce energy use by an average of 25%.
Miralis develops software solutions to reduce carbon emissions in transport. Fuuse is our advanced operating system for EV charging, providing advanced smart charging solutions at work, on the road and at home.
Mitico delivers a solution for carbon capture using dry granular metal carbonate (GMC) purification technology with integrated measurement, reporting, and verification.
M.J. Beck Consulting, LLC (MJB) provides advisory services to clients in the energy industry.
Molecule Works develops a solid sorbent Direct Air Capture (DAC) system using a novel reactor and contactor configuration.
New Motion Labs are on a mission to become the industry standard by developing and licensing deep-tech engineering solutions.
Olokun Minerals is developing a new, cleaner way to filter out valuable metals and minerals from brines.
Opus One Solutions is a software engineering and solutions company delivering real-time energy management to the modern grid for utilities, owners of DERs, and other market participants.
Origin Solar finds superior sites for solar by deploying proprietary Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and AI machine learning algorithms to find superior solar farm sites rapidly.
OSC provides advanced simulators for offshore wind operations. This helps developers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), offshore wind bases and engineering, construction, and installation contractors de-risking the most advanced offshore wind installation projects.
Osmoses develops polymers for gas separation, enabling membrane-based carbon capture applications.
Patch is a platform for negative emissions.
Planetary combines hydrogen production with CO₂ sequestration via ocean air capture.
Power to Hydrogen catalyzes materials and unique cell designs that enables low-cost hydrogen generation for energy storage. (Formerly pH Matter)
Powerline Technologies applies Artificial Intelligence to solve power engineering challenges in electricity distribution.
PowerMarket provides community solar management and customer acquisition solutions to utilities and renewable energy project developers. We also provide shared renewable products and services directly to customers through our community solar marketplace.
Protium Innovations provides lightweight liquid hydrogen tanks and fueling solutions for reliable hydrogen-electric vehicles.
Qualis Flow is dedicated to decarbonizing construction through a photograph, tracking materials and waste for cost, quality, and carbon control.
Remora is capturing CO₂ from semi truck emissions.
Rentricity is a renewable energy company that designs and installs a unique energy recovery system that harnesses excess pressure and uses it to generate clean electric power.
Resonant Energy coordinates grassroots solar campaigns and develops affordable solar in underserved markets, with a mission to provide 100% clean energy to 100% of people.
Ripple is a clean energy ownership platform that enables consumers to own large scale wind farms and solar parks and have the green, low cost electricity supplied to their homes and business.
RUNWITHIT Synthetics creates a live, digital twin modeling platform that generates decision-support data for regional hydrogen-demand scenarios.
Scanifly's 3D modeling software uses drones and AI to automate solar project development.
Sealed makes it easy for homes to be more energy efficient while guaranteeing savings for the homeowner. Sealed will implement the right energy saving measures, and then combine your gas, electric and oil bill into one Sealed bill.
Senergy designs and manufactures low cost low carbon solar thermal panels to deliver low cost low carbon heating and cooling.
Setpoint provides a Climate-as-a-Service platform for multi-room structures, that senses, analyses, and automates climate comfort in every room.
Shifted Energy supports utilities and consumers through deployment of low-cost distributed energy resource control systems and monitoring, machine learning-based data analytics, aggregation and dispatch optimization software.
simuwatt reduces building energy expenses through its patented software platform - buildee®. The buildee software platform enables portfolio owners, municipalities, utilities and their downstream service providers to identify and act on energy efficiency and decarbonization at 90% less time and cost than other methods.
Sistine Solar designs beautiful custom solar panels and seamlessly integrate them into rooftops, outdoor furniture, and canopies.
SKYRE develops electrolyzers that decarbonize the world's energy system through hydrogen recycling, green hydrogen production and carbon utilization.
Smarter Grid Solution’s “active grid management” solution incorporates intermittent changing grid edge devices as well as changing weather, electricity, market dynamics, demand levels in order to manage the new grid architecture.
Smartpipe Technologies develops a robust self-monitored repurposed pipeline system for hydrogen with minimal environmental disruption.
SMPnet is a technology company supporting real-time grid optimization and control to facilitate the transition to software defined electricity networks. SMPnet's OMEGA platform offers a suite of features including: Real-time optimisation and control of distribution networks and connected assets, Congestion management and power flow, Informed decisions based on AI, Market interface capabilities (realizing flexibility for DSOs), and is Vendor-free (connecting to any technology on the grid).
Sollega designs, tests and manufacturers solar mounting solutions serving the US and European markets.
Soteria Battery Innovation Group is dedicated to ending lithium-ion battery fires without compromises by developing two licensable technologies and bringing the industry together through an open innovation consortium.
SPEC Sensors creates a robust and reliable meshed sensor network for hydrogen leak detection and line-monitoring systems.
Sperra is dedicated to using 3D printing technologies with concrete to manufacture low-cost renewable energy support structures, anchors, and subsea pumped hydro energy storage systems that couple with offshore wind.
Sunamp world leading thermal storage technologies contain high-performance phase change materials and work with a wide choice of energy sources to deliver lower carbon heating, cooling and hot water.
Sunthetics is developing more efficient and more sustainable chemical processes, starting with Nylon 6,6 intermediates.
Sylvera is the provider of a leading ratings system to deliver transparency to buyers and traders of carbon credits. Sylvera provides the data infrastructure to carbon markets, ensuring companies can deliver on their climate commitments.
Tagup saves money and reduces downtime on any industrial machine. Tagup identifies system failures before they occur by monitoring equipment in real time from anywhere.
Teknobuilt develops a comprehensive "digital construction block" that digitizes construction processes, optimizes delivery of projects, converts formerly analog inputs into a holistic, single digital platform, mitigates inefficiencies, and tracks carbon intensity of projects, among other features.
TerraFixing develops a direct-air-capture technology for cold climates using zeolite-based adsorbent materials.
ThinkEco’s “modlet” is a self-installable solution that makes it simple to bring energy awareness and device-level energy management to home and office environments.
Twipes manufactures truly flushable and biodegradable wet wipes.
United Wind Inc. is a distributed wind energy developer with the mission of putting a wind turbine at every suitable property in the country.
Urban Electric aims to build the world's largest urban on-street electric vehicle charging network, by reducing the streetscape impact of chargepoints and maintaining accessibility of pavements for pedestrians.
Urban Energy is making community solar viable for NYC's multifamily buildings with solar canopy hardware and software, project financing, and battery storage solutions specific to this building class.
VinciVR provides workforce recruitment, filtering, and training Virtual Reality tools for the offshore wind market. VinciVR leverages highly immersive, affordable VR technology to simulate complex offshore wind environments to engage and educate the US industry.
Voltaiq provides companies with insight into battery performance allowing them to get products to market faster and ensuring reliability in the field.
WexEnergy increases profitability of real estate portfolios with WindowSkin®, a simple, cost-effective window retrofit that improves window energy performance.
Zinc8 Energy Solutions develops and manufactures Zinc-Air Energy Storage Systems that are redefining the energy storage market by offering a low-cost, safe, robust, and long-duration (8+ hours) energy storage solution to utilities, commercial & industrial sectors, micro-grids and renewable energy developers.