How Urban Future Lab by NYU Tandon School of Engineering delivers high start-up to scale-up climate tech success results
Tune in to this conversation with Fred Clerc from Urban Future lab to learn about the accelerator program UFL runs and its outsized performance results
Listen in to this conversation between Frederic Clerc, Director, Carbon to Value Initiative and Interim Managing Director at Urban Future Lab, and Alex Cameron, Founder of Decarb Connect as they talk about the accelerator program UFL runs and its outsized performance results. UFL has welcomed 170 companies into its accelerator programs the last few years, and these have gone on to raise more than $2.5bn and have an 85% success rate.. great stats by anyone’s measure.
You’ll hear about the hardtech landscape that Fred and team focus on and what they have learned in the last few years about the drivers of success for climatetech. UFL works with early stage companies helping hem scale both the tech/IP of their solution, but also the commercial partnerships and business models they need to scale essential climate tech through series A, B, C and beyond.
Key topics:
- How can we overcome the blocks to scaling complex, but essential, decarb hardware solutions?
- Who should be stepping into the lead investor role?
- What are we seeing change in the approach of private and philanthropic capital?
- What changes and opportunities is Fred seeing in the investor community?
- With a focus on their c2v cohorts, what pattern is the UFL team seeing in the companies that are able to go beyond Seed/Series A and really get to scale?
- Examples of key tech that has been through the program and on to funding/scale success
Show links:
- Connect with Fred Clerc and the team at Urban Future Labs
- Learn more about the portfolio of tech companies working with UFL
- Follow Alex Cameron on LinkedIn and find how to get involved with the membership and work of Decarb Connect
- C2V’s Year 4 Kick-off Event in Houston on Sep 19: https://lu.ma/x202y69w
- UFL’s Annual Urban Future Summit on Oct 24: https://lu.ma/p0parlfi
- An example of successful collaboration between NYU and a UFL startup: https://engineering.nyu.edu/news/clean-energy-solution-getting-mars-and-back
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