Urban Partners will combine real estate, venture capital, private equity, and credit under one company.
Now, a new investment vehicle wants to deploy an array of financial instruments in unison to rapidly transform the green credentials of cities and make them more liveable. "We started thinking about what real estate investing can do beyond just a piece of investment," Claus Mathisen, CEO of Urban Partners, told Insider."You start thinking about servicing customers – the stakeholders who actually use the real estate – and you design around them."
At the same time, the team also became interested in the circular economy, where materials are reused and recycled. One of the projects with financing by Velo Capital is Project Arch, an urban hub with a mix of office and retail spaces in central Düsseldorf, Germany.The idea is that the company can help to design solutions.