Clara Brenner built her career by combining commercial real estate and public policy experience into an investing thesis around highly regulated urban tech companies, co-creating the urban-tech accelerator Tumml years before launching a traditional VC vehicle to prove out her thesis. She treats policy and regulation as a proactive sourcing lens rather than a risk to avoid, systematically tracking regulatory trends and using them as a core driver of investment decisions while serving as a regulatory sherpa to help portfolio founders navigate government stakeholders. Clara Brenner built her career by combining commercial real estate and public policy experience into an investing thesis around highly regulated urban tech companies, co-creating the urban-tech accelerator Tumml years before launching a traditional VC vehicle to prove out her thesis. She treats policy and regulation as a proactive sourcing lens rather than a risk to avoid, systematically tracking regulatory trends and using them as a core driver of investment decisions while serving as a regulatory sherpa to help portfolio founders navigate government stakeholders.