Smart Futures Lab 2024 Demo Day

Smart Futures Lab
Demo Day x CU Denver Block Party
Thursday, August 22 | 12 pm – 3  pm
Meet us on Lawrence Street, between 14th and 15th Street

Join Smart Futures Lab as their incubator and accelerator program members give live demonstrations of their innovative Smart City products and prototypes. We have ten startup companies that are in various stages of development, each with a unique solution that seeks to solve problems for Smart Cities, municipalities, and local government.

This event will be hosted outdoors as part of the Annual CU Denver Block Party. Come and learn more about these startups, enjoy some food, and music!

Where: Between Lawrence Street on 14th and 15th Street | 1250 14th Street, Denver, CO 80202
Cost: Free Entry! Let us know you’re coming by registering
Parking: Paid Parking is available on Larimer Street and 14th Street | 1394 Market St, Denver, CO 80202

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
Point-It-Out uses augmented reality to helps assist individuals with cognitive impairments navigate unfamiliar indoor environments

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/