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The New York startup ecosystem is a force to be reckoned with. Between the driven entrepreneurs trying to make an impact on the Big Apple ...

From drones taking pictures in the stratosphere to putting sensors on cranes at construction sites, there are nine new Brooklyn companies trying to fix the problems of urban living...

This interview is about the future of our cities, and the technologies and companies making that happen. To learn more about that today we get to interview Shaun Abrahamson...

In the year since Urban-X launched as a partnership between BMW’s “MINIi” brand and the hardware accelerator HAX, the incubator has backed 17 new startups and learned several lessons...

Urban.Us, a venture capital firm whose focus area often overlaps with gov tech, is taking on the URBAN-X accelerator in New York. The venture firm will lend funding and expertise to the relatively new accelerator....

It’s an old story for anyone moving out to a new place, but for Merchant, and others like her, the idea that there can be a better way to move to a place, and live in a city, has led to the creation of new co-living spaces...

At Urban-X in Brooklyn, eight teams of entrepreneurs work feverishly to create their products and hone their pitches...

For taxi drivers in New York, finding their next fare is second nature, both a function of being in a busy neighborhood, or positioning their car near a stadium or concert hall just when a big event finishes. Uber and Lyft drivers, on the other hand, rely on algorithmically generated real-time surge alerts that direct them to areas of high demand—and increased fares....

Chief Digital Officer Sree Sreenivasan and Chief Technology Officer Miguel Gamiño Jr. spoke to the second cohort of Urban-X, A/D/O's resident accelerator for connected-city startups. It got philosophical...

BMW’s MINI auto brand is in the midst of opening its A/D/O public design studio in Brooklyn, as MINI’s head of brand strategy and business innovation, Esther Bahne, recently discussed here. But the space will do more than serve as a hub for designers...

URBAN-X is expanding and adding funding to its Brooklyn, NY-based startup accelerator with new venture capital partner Urban Us...

After years as a venture capital pariah, cleantech startups are rebranding themselves to capitalize on the quest to build a smart city...

The Post's Steven Mufson discusses ways to implement models of efficiencies in cities with BlocPower chief executive Donnel Baird, Urban.us co-founder Shaun Abrahamson and Austin Blackmon, Boston's chief of environment, energy and open space...

The Urban-X investors showcase is a closed-door event that shows off eight different incubated startups to potential investors and press...

Venture fund Urban.us is gearing up to close a $10 million fund to continue investing in startups focused on impacting urban city living across mobility and logistics, environment, utilities and local government. Urban.us expects to close the fund later this year...

In the past, city planners, policymakers and real estate developers could safely assume that energy was cheap, water abundant and garbage could simply be moved away. There was no downside to burning more fossil fuels and we could keep adding everything from air-conditioning to more roads (and cars). Now we know this reasoning is not just wrong, but...