{"id":37236,"date":"2017-04-15T23:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T06:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/urban-tech-trends-in-2017"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:04:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:04:45","slug":"urban-tech-trends-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/urban-tech-trends-in-2017","title":{"rendered":"Urban Tech Trends in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/urban-tech-trends-in-2017.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago we unveiled the latest eight companies that are part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/urban-x.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>URBAN-X<\/b><\/a> smart cities accelerator in Brooklyn. This is the second time we\u2019ve run this program, which differs a little from SOSV\u2019s other ecosystem accelerators, in that the space isn\u2019t constrained by the deep intricacies of a vertical (manufacturing, biotechnology, etc) as much as by environment and mission. The kind of companies we\u2019re interested in working with through this program are changing the way that humans live in cities: they\u2019re working on topics as various as mobility, urban health and safety, energy, waste, water, city planning, construction, and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>We see hundreds of applicants to our program, and interface with hundreds more through our network, mentors, and co-investors. Here are some of the trends we\u2019ve seen ticking up over the last 12 months or so:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sosv.com\/urban-tech-trends-2017\/\">https:\/\/sosv.com\/urban-tech-trends-2017\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago we unveiled the latest eight companies that are part of our URBAN-X smart cities accelerator in Brooklyn. This is the second time we\u2019ve run this program, which differs a little from SOSV\u2019s other ecosystem accelerators, in that the space isn\u2019t constrained by the deep intricacies of a vertical (manufacturing, biotechnology, etc) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58063,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37236\/revisions\/58063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}