Know a business that could improve urban community quality of life?
Innovative and promising businesses are everywhere—and sometimes the people who encounter them are the first to recognize their potential.
Spot a Business! gives you a simple way to tell UEI about a business you think we should know about. It might be a startup, an established company, or anything in between. It can be located anywhere, as long as you see potential for its products, services, or approach to improve urban community quality of life.
Tell us what the business does and why you think it matters. You don’t need to be affiliated with the business, and you don’t need to be a UEI member to participate.
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| Stage | Business | Where | What |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early Growth | City Institute | Detroit, Michigan | City Institute creates custom Learning Journeys for corporate teams, leadership groups, boards, universities and organizations that want to get out of the office, spend time together and better understand Detroit and the communities where they work, invest, learn and lead. |
| Startup | ICON | Austin Texas | Builds homes with large-scale 3D printers, including homes for people coming out of homelessness. |
| Established | Sanergy | Kenya | Provides affordable toilets in informal settlements. It collects the waste and turns it into fertilizer and animal feed. |
| Early Growth | Rheaply | Chicago | online marketplace where organizations like universities, companies and cities can share, reuse and give away furniture and equipment. |
| Established | Gotham Greens | USA | Runs climate-controlled greenhouses, many on city rooftops, that grow leafy greens for grocery stores nearby. |
| Established | Rebel Nell | Detroit, MI | Makes jewelry from layers of graffiti paint that has fallen off Detroit walls. It hires women moving out of homelessness and gives them financial and life-skills training. |
| Startup | Doroni Aerospace | U.S. | Vehicles for personal flight. |
| Established | May Mobility | Ann Arbor, MI | May Mobility is a global autonomous vehicle technology company partnering with ride-hailing companies to provide autonomous ride-hail services. |
| Established | Too Good To Go | Europe, North America, Oceania, and Asia | A mobile app that connects consumers with local restaurants, bakeries, and grocery stores to purchase surplus food at a steep discount right before closing time. It drastically cuts down on urban food waste while helping people score affordable meals in their neighborhood. |
| Established | PropertyGuru | Southeast Asia | is Southeast Asia’s biggest proptech platform. It basically moved the entire chaotic real estate market online. Founded in Singapore back in 2007, it completely changed how people buy, sell, and rent homes in crowded cities. It gives city dwellers instant transparency on housing prices, floor plans, and localized neighborhood data, completely replacing old-school classified ads |
| Established | Carousell | Singapore | Carousell created a simple mobile marketplace where people can sell what they don't need and buy what they do. It was founded in Singapore in 2012. It is Singapore's ultimate digital flea market where you can snap a photo, list your random clutter, and sell it in like 30 seconds. Since starting in 2012, it has totally changed how people in high-density cities live by turning everyone's extra stuff into a well-connected, local sharing economy. |
| Established | Human Electric Hybrids | Ann Arbor, Michigan | Sell, service, and rent electric micro-mobility equipment, including e-bikes, scooters, and other small e-mobility devices. |
| Stage | Business | Where | What |