Urban Morph - Invested in progress

Innovate

• Oorulabs within Urban Morph is urban tech accelerator, we either build our own technologies like Altmo, WattsNext & SyntheSYS, or we work with a set of partners whose solution can help solve urban problems.

• Altmo is an employee engagement and climate action technology platform helping companies manage and measure their employee health and transport emissions. 8600 from 860 companies across 115 cities have saved 2 lakh liters of petrol and offset 500 tons of CO2 emissions. Read here why this is important for your organisation in achieving your ESG, SDG and employee wellbeing goals. Get started today

• WattsNext Energy is a smart battery management system for battery pack makers to save on warranty replacement costs, which can be sometimes be upto 40% of their revenue, by providing analytics of inappropriate usage.

• In the era of entropic content SyntheSYS brings an informed view of Urban problems with added perspective from experts for quicker understanding of root causes. Beyond aggregating content for contextuality it is supported by the OoruLabs podcast to clarify and make informed decisions. If you are someone who wants to solve problems in the urban space and not sure where to deploy capital, this is the go-to product for you.

Orchestrate

• For Philanthopies, Regranters and Organisations planning to deploy CSR capital for impact, we are able to provide a thesis and strategy to deliver long term sustainable impact in the urban space. We understand how to string portfolios that create sustainable collaborations based on mutual incentives and a deep understanding of the problems to be solved. We can setup inpact portfolios around strategies and run them as a service or transition to lean teams which can operate around this framework.

• As a strategic partner for the India-UK Netzero center called ITES setup between Energy Systems Catapult of UK and Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, we enabled multiple India and UK innovators to establish collaborative partnerships in India.

• We have signed an MoU with the Sustainable Transportation Lab of Indian Institute of Science as orchestrators of the Active Mobility Center of Excellence. We provide orchestration services for the center in taking research out to the real world via partners, governments and communities.

• We have experience of delivering thesis, strategy and orchestration for one of India's leading CSR organisation's with a grant budget of upto USD 100 million.

Accelerate

• We use inhouse expertise in complex systems and urban problem solving, intellectual properties from the OoruLabs engine and external partners to deliver impactful change on the ground. Our work is able to integrate Government, Market and Society in creating place based sandboxes and implementations that have shown to create impact.

• Church street first in Bengaluru was an award wining sandbox for bringing together government, market, research institutions and society into a sandbox that allowed people to experience streets of the future. It provided space for innovators testing out electric micro mobility solutions and air quality monitors. A few of the innovators have successfully learned on the ground and made it to the mainstream. It enabled creative artists from across the city to engage the public, even today church street in Bengaluru carries the legacy of busking and artists like Ed Sheeran performing there. It allowed research institutions like IISc to gather data an document quantative and qualitative evidence of urban transformation.

• We have delivered multiple solutions in active mobility from tactical interventions to frameworks like pedestrian frendly streets, bicycle seperators, counters, bicycle stands, bicycle repair kiosks, shared pathway designs, transport accessibility index, walkability audits. All of these and more are what has given us learnings that can be brought together and made to work in synchronization.

• Engaging citizens is a bedrock of public problem solving. We have done this for more than a decade. From the country's first and longest running open streets event called Cycle Day to the marquee Pedaluru, we have engaged with more than 80+ communities in Bengaluru.

Sathya Sankaran

Co-Founder/Director

Sathya is a Computer Science graduate with a Post graduation in Public Policy. He brings three decades of experience in using technology and data to solve Urban issues in Mobility and Energy. He is the architect of AltMo, a gamified mobility intelligence platform for the future of climate friendly cities. The data from this platform enabled a 342% increased allocation in the Comprehensive Master Plan for cycling and walking, helped put up more than 20 kms of cycle tracks in Bengaluru and won Silvassa Smart City an award for Excellence in Innovation. It is now helping corporates meet their ESG goals. His Relief Riders initiative during the COVID pandemic won the 2021 UN World Bicycle Day Special Award and nominated for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the host of OoruLabs podcast, India's premiere urban affairs podcast. He is the strategy lead delivering a thesis based investing for urban sustainability, waste, energy and materials at Rainmatter foundation. He is the CEO at WattsNext Energy which is redefining the way power is delivered for vehicles and built forms. He is an adjunct faculty teaching Urban Governance and public problem solving for masters students in public policy at Kautilya School, Hyderabad and Mount Carmel, Bengaluru. He is a Director at the waste management startup, Bioman and the Bicycle Mayor of Bengaluru.