Urbantech

Miriam Roure is passionate about improving cities through technology and design. She is the Program Director at URBAN-X, an accelerator built by MINI and Urban Us, dedicated to investing in and supporting entrepreneurs developing urban solutions.

Previously, Miriam worked at MIT Senseable City Lab, a research laboratory dedicated to exploring the future of cities from a data and sensor-based technology perspective. At MIT, Miriam managed several urban tech projects and led collaborations with private and public partners. Trained as an architect an urban planner, she also worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam and at Mateo Arquitectura in Barcelona, where she developed a variety of projects that demanded applied architectural thinking, within and beyond built form.

Miriam has been invited to speak at a number of venues including the Smart City World Congress, Ignite Talks Barcelona, the Architecture Boston Expo, the European Lab Forum, amongst others and was a guest at 8TV with Josep Cuní.

Andrew is a recovering consultant turned serial entrepreneur startup mentor and angel investor.  The Managing Director for DreamIt’s New York program, Andrew is also a contributing writer to AlleyWatch.com. In a previous life, Andrew led Bunk1.com as COO/Head of Product where he built it from scratch to the leading provider of web services to the summer camp industry.  In 2008, Andrew moved on to manage a family office where he was responsible for both incubating new ventures and for managing over $50M of alternative assets including hedge, private equity, and venture capital funds.

Simon is the Founder of CIV LAB, a non-profit dedicated to scaling solutions for cities globally. He is a Strategic Advisor to the US Department of Commerce and the International Trade Administration on Smart Cities. Now in his third year, Simon teaches 'Global Entrepreneurship', a class he created, at NYU's Center for Global Affairs.

In 2014, Simon founded Urban Data NYC, NYC’s largest smart city Meetup (+1,300 members) and in 2016 co-founded Smart Cities NYC, North America's largest Smart City conference. In 2015, he served on the founding group of the United Nation’s Digital Technologies for Sustainable Urbanization Network. Simon holds an MS in Global Affairs from NYU where he was the O'Mara Energy Fellow, an MSc in International Business Economics from the Westminster Business School and a BS in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Sussex both in the UK.

Joy is an experienced founder, investment evaluator, and advisor to high growth innovative companies across sectors seeking to scale sustainably. She advises on partnerships, business modeling, go to market strategy, operations, and financial modeling. Joy has advised dozens of companies across geographies from M&A and strategic planning to process improvement and supply chain management.

Joy is an active advisor across accelerators and university startup communities including VentureOut, Techstars, I2F CyberNYC, Cal Hacks, and Columbia University’s Entrepreneurship Design Studio.  Joy is an alumna of Columbia Business School, The London School of Economics, and UC Berkeley.

Lisa is the Founder and CEO of AccentC3. At AccentC3 the accent is on communication with their desired audience, clarity in their speech, and confidence communicating in a new cultural landscape. They have worked with people in several industries, from technology to finance, "big law" and healthcare. They also work with a global clientele from countries such as Brazil, Russia, China, France, and Italy.

Lisa also has a lot of experience in this field. She graduated from The University of Cambridge with an ESOL Certificate in English Teaching to Adults. Lisa has been a Speech and Language Pathologist for many companies, even as an independent consultant.

Joshua Siegel is General Partner of Rubicon Venture Capital VC fund that invests in Later Stage Seed and Series A & B venture capital financing rounds of early-stage disruptive technology companies. Rubicon only considers companies that have raised a minimum of $500k non-founder cash funding.

Eliot is a General Partner at boldstart ventures and has been investing in enterprise startups for over a decade, he is most passionate about supporting teams going to market.

Prior to Boldstart, Eliot cofounded Penny Black in 2008; a private investment firm in NYC investing across broad range of sectors.  He also previously founded Templates.com, an online software retailer, sold in late 2002 and worked at the Permal Group, a multi-billion dollar global fund of hedge funds (acquired by Legg Mason in 2006).

Eliot is a graduate of Georgetown University with post-graduate study at Columbia University. He enjoys house music, surfing, and lives downtown in New York City.

At White Star Capital, Lylan invests in Seed & Series A tech startups. He actively helps their portfolio companies succeed by sourcing investment opportunities and tries to be helpful to startups. He looks at companies across all tech sectors and tends to gravitate more towards startups in IoT, big data & analytics, fitness technology, proximity & beacons, adtech, and the ridiculously disruptive startups that don’t fit in a clear bucket.

Founder Coach specializing in Seed to product-market-fit.
Serial Entrepreneur with mobile ecommerce focus - UX/UI visionary.

Brett joined the VentureOut team in January 2014 as the Director of Business Development responsible for developing the pipeline of programs sponsor and partner outreach and startup due diligence. Prior to VentureOutBrett spent time in consulting, finance, and sales within a number of startups and small institutions. While not at work you can find him playing guitar, checking out local music or cheering on his beloved Knicks. He earned his Bachelor's of Science in Management at Tulane University where he studied Finance and Music and is proud to call New Orleans a second home.

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