EchoTwin AI Raises $8M to Expand AI-Powered Urban Digital Twins

• EchoTwin AI secured $8 million in seed funding led by Metis Ventures, joined by a global group of strategic and financial backers.
• The company will use the capital to accelerate international growth of its fleet-based infrastructure intelligence platform.

EchoTwin AI has raised $8 million in a seed round led by Metis Ventures, joined by a global syndicate of strategic and financial investors. The funding will support international expansion and scaling of the company’s real-time infrastructure platform for smart cities.

“EchoTwin is rewriting the infrastructure playbook—one that hasn’t fundamentally changed in decades. Instead of embedding sensors into concrete, Chris and his team are transforming moving fleets into real-time infrastructure intelligence. It flips the smart cities script. They’re not just building technology for cities. They’re building an AI-powered cognitive layer that helps cities think, manage, and self-heal,” said Merve Zabcı, managing partner of Metis Ventures, in a press release. 

The platform transforms municipal fleets into mobile urban sensors, enabling cities to create a living digital twin of the city. It integrates a proprietary visual intelligence engine with full spatial reasoning, a patented AI and machine learning framework, and a Vision-Language Model that detects infrastructure issues and traffic violations.

EchoTwin AI is piloting its technology with agencies in cities across the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. The company plans to expand internationally and deploy its platform to support real-time monitoring and issue detection in urban infrastructure.

🌀 Tom’s Take:

EchoTwin’s use of visual intelligence shows how real-time, spatially aware AI can turn urban fleets into mobile infrastructure watchdogs, spotting issues before they escalate.

Source: EZ Newswire / EchoTwin AI