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Andrew Felbinger

Principal at Urban Innovation Fund

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Overview 

Andrew Felbinger is a Principal at Urban Innovation Fund in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a background in investment banking and portfolio management. Notable highlights include his role as a Founding Angel Investor at Vitalize Venture Capital and his contributions as Head of Finance and Biz Ops at Grain Technology (YC W20), where he invested in companies like Jeeves and Bumblebee Spaces.

Work Experience 

  • Principal

    2022 - Current

    The Urban Innovation Fund is a venture capital firm that provides seed capital and regulatory expertise to entrepreneurs solving our toughest urban challenges – helping them grow into tomorrow’s most valued companies.

  • Founding Angel Investor

    2021

  • Mentor

    2019

Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.

Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.

  • Head of Finance and Biz Ops

    2021 - 2022

Grain provides a digital credit card that empowers users to manage their credit responsibly.

Raised $16,779,788.00 from Beyond Capital, Paul Longhenry, Aperture Venture Capital, Pioneer Fund, Bradley Horowitz, Tamar Capital, Urban Innovation Fund, Pioneer Fund, Leonis Investissement and Y Combinator.

  • Senior Associate

    2018 - 2021

  • Summer MBA Intern

    2017 - 2017

Raptor Technologies is a developer of visitor management systems used to provide possible protection for every child in school.

  • Acquisitions Associate

    2015 - 2016

    Led and closed the acquisition, disposition and refinance of multi-family and retail properties in New York City and the greater metropolitan area.

  • Assistant Vice President

    2012 - 2015

    Delivered Fixed Income strategy, research, trading commentary, and liquidity to the firm’s institutional client base executing an average of $2.5b of assets and generating $100k in daily sales credit revenues.

  • Summer Intern/Analyst

    2010 - 2011

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