Ginkgo (fka Citiesense) (Pre-Seed)

Founders: Carl Cornilsen, Starling Childs, Volkan Unsal
Company Description: Ginkgo takes a community-first approach to helping cities. We equip local organizations like Business Improvement Districts and small business groups with tools to build resilient and thriving mixed-use neighborhoods. Downtowns and Main Street organizations across the US are using Ginkgo to track local conditions and improve how they serve their communities of businesses, property owners and other stakeholders. There are neighborhoods in cities everywhere suffering from the same set of issues, such as: High cost of housing & homelessness, More transient populations & Less sense of community, Commercial vacancies, Unsustainable energy & waste management systems, Lack of mobility options & congestion, Poorly managed public spaces. Ginkgo helps community leaders work with their communities to tackle these issues in a structured and organized way using our online maps, portals and cloud data management services.
Location: United States