Startups with innovative ideas to improve urban life can find support in a new D.C. incubator founded by the Aspen Institute.
The D.C. Urban Innovation Lab launched this week in Dupont Circle to support social entrepreneurs with ideas on how to fix all kinds of problems facing cities right now. The Aspen Institute, which is involved in a host of policy and educational activities, told Elevation DC that part of the point of the Urban Innovation Lab is to have a direct impact on the local area.
The between five and seven companies fostered at the incubator will improve life in the D.C. area in fields like education, jobs and social justice causes. The narrow focus on urban improvements will be what sets the Urban Innovations Lab apart from other incubators in the area, even those that focus on social good startups like Halcyon. The companies working at the Lab will all be working on issues related to D.C. and its environs, although with a high likelihood of being applicable to other cities too.
Applications for the new incubator will open up in the next couple of weeks.
