SFL 2024 Graduation & Pitch Event

Join us at the Graduation celebration for the  Smart Futures Lab 2024 program! This pitch event is a great opportunity to explore groundbreaking investment opportunities in the Smart City sector. 

Ten high-potential startups will present their innovative products and prototypes, each designed to address key challenges faced by municipalities and local governments. With companies at various stages of development, this is your chance to discover early-stage ventures poised for growth and make strategic investments in the future of urban innovation. Don’t miss the opportunity to engage with the next wave of transformative technologies

RSVP to confirm your seat! We will have light breakfast refreshments and lunch will be served. 

Agenda: 

• 10am | Special Guest Speaker Opening Remarks
  
• 11am | Company Pitch Presentations
  
• 12pm| Lunch & Networking

Event Details:

Where: Tivoli Student Union/Tivoli Brewery at the Adirondacks Room (Room 440)| 900 Auraria Parkway, Room 440, Denver, CO, 80204)
Cost: Free Event! Let us know you're coming by registering/rsvp
Parking: The Tivoli Parking Garage and the Spruce parking lot next to the Tivoli building are paid parking lots guests can access. Click here to see the map.

About the Companies

Incubator Companies

InfraSmart Solutions| Denver, CO | CU Denver Faculty Founder
Founders: Brian Zavareh and Dr. Farnoush Banaei-Kashani
InfraSmart Solutions is innovating in urban infrastructure with AI, focusing on making sewer pipeline defect detection automatic. They plan to bring their advanced solutions to cities across the country, aiming to change how infrastructure maintenance and city development are done.

Addazu | Denver, CO
Founder: Kelly Pickering
Addazu proudly steps into the workforce and entry-level housing sector, leveraging its unique position as a design, engineering, and sales firm with a groundbreaking panelized modular housing system. 
https://addazu.com/

Pin Point | Denver, CO | CU Denver Faculty Founder
Founder: Caroline Clevenger
PinPoint uses augmented reality to helps assist individuals with cognitive impairments navigate unfamiliar indoor environments.
https://www.pinpointbuddy.com/

Civic Trust | Boulder, CO
Founder: Matt Harder 
Civic Trust provides process design, technology, and strategic communications support that allows your city to execute successful participatory budgeting initiatives. They help cities build, grow and lead civic engagement through participatory budgeting.
www.civictrust.us

Accelerator Companies

Tiami Networks | Elk Grove, CA
Founder: Amitav Mukherjee
Tiami Networks extracts radar sensing information from ambient 5G network signals to track people, vehicles, and objects.
https://www.tiaminetworks.com/ 

GO See The City | Orlando, FL
Founder: Aneshai Smith
GO See The City is a tech startup dedicated to combating food waste and hunger in municipalities across the nation and beyond. Through their platform and app, they connect eateries of all types, including restaurants, stadiums, festivals, and food trucks with surplus food to customers at a discount, or to nonprofits.
www.GOSeeTheCity.com

N5 Sensors Inc. | Rockville, MD
Founder: Debra Deininger
N5 Sensors provides precise, timely and actionable intelligence to keep people, communities, and infrastructure safe from wildfires and environmental hazards.
https://n5sensors.com/ 

Ecosystem Informatics Inc | Ontario, Canada
Founder: Shirook Ali
Ecosystem Informatics Inc offers a comprehensive air quality monitoring (AQM) system via a combined hardware and software solution. It is deployed in sectors where accuracy, precision, timeliness, and reliability are non-negotiable.
https://ecosinfo.ca/ 

Taro AI | San Francisco, CA
Founder: Cynthia Wu
Taro AI helps communities automate monitoring and issue detection for trees and urban infrastructure. They leverage existing imagery, machine learning, computer vision, and engage local residents to map and monitor risks in a built environment.
https://www.taroai.com/ 

State of Place | Boston, MA
Founder: Dr. Mariela Alfonzo
State of Place helps developers create more just, thriving communities more effectively, cost-efficiently, and inclusively by harnessing the power of AI to produce data-driven, evidence-based approaches that help governments identify optimal environment investments.
https://www.stateofplace.co/