EchoTwin AI, a pioneer in AI-powered infrastructure intelligence, has closed an $8 million seed round led by Metis Ventures with support from a global syndicate of investors. Founded by Chris Carson, the company transforms municipal fleets into mobile AI sensors that generate real-time digital twins of cities, enabling predictive and self-healing infrastructure management.
At the core of the platform is a proprietary visual intelligence engine with full spatial reasoning, integrating patented AI frameworks and a vision-language model for semantic traffic and compliance detection. The funding will accelerate EchoTwin’s international expansion as it pilots deployments across major cities in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. Positioned in the fast-growing $4 trillion smart cities market, EchoTwin is driving the shift from smart cities to cognitive cities powered by AI.
