E991: #StartupTuneup with Urban-X: Waste-reducing marketplaces, traffic liability reduction, recreational sharing spaces, firefighter safety software & energy cost saving AI

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

0:41 Jason intros the #StartupTuneup with Urban-X companies
2:33 David Rodriguez pitches Food for All: food marketplace to reduce waste & help restaurants sell unused food
12:43 Jim Selevan pitches Pi-Lit: innovating transportation thru a wireless lamp system
26:33 Caroline Hansen pitches Hubbster: providing easy access to outdoor games & gear
41:24 Patrick O'Connor pitches 3AM Innovations: safety software for firefighters
50:52 Michael Lee pitches Evolve Energy: SaaS product that helps consumers save on energy costs thru AI
1:02:51 Urban Us Co-Founder & Partner Stonly Baptiste joins Jason to discuss the companies

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0:41.0	Hey everybody, welcome to this week and startups.
0:43.3	I'm your host Jason Callicanis.
0:44.6	I invest in companies all year long.
0:47.1	Some of them become huge.
0:48.7	Some of them go away.
0:50.1	All of them try hard.
0:51.3	And one of the great ways for you as a founder to accelerate your growth
0:57.8	and the growth of your company is to join one of the accelerators out there or incubators. But how do you pick one? Well, it's hard. Most of them are
1:06.2	run by people who didn't succeed in their life. Most of them are a waste of time. You're going to get bad
1:11.1	advice. But there's a couple of them that I personally
1:14.0	think are very good one of them that I think is just great is Urban X and my friend Stonyly Baptist runs
1:19.6	it and he's brought five of the companies here today.
1:23.0	You'll see the quality level of these companies tends to be very high.
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