City Planning : Innovation & Job News

When it announced it had acquired Disruption Corp in Arlington, VA, and Hattery in San Francisco, 1776 cofounders Evan Burfield and Donna Harris and now managing director Paul Singh faced lots of questions from the #DCtech community. They just released a podcast to explain more on their plans.

The Aspen Institute, an international nonprofit organization headquartered in Dupont Circle, is launching a Center for Urban Innovation, and within that, an incubator for social entrepreneurs to work on D.C.'s urban woes.

The District announced the eight startups that will receive up to $200,000 from its Digital D.C. Tech Fund: Aquicore, Azert, EventKloud,FlexSpot, Riide,Silica Labs,Vinolovers and MyMuzik.

Urban Insights, a transportation data and analytics firm, has set up shop in Arlington.

Transit Labs, a transportation data startup out of 1776, has launched an invite-only pilot to turn the power of big-data analytics to public transit.