City Detect, Which Uses AI To Help Cities Stay Safe And Clean, Raises $13M Series A

City Detect, Which Uses AI To Help Cities Stay Safe And Clean, Raises $13M Series A

A startup using cameras on garbage trucks just secured $13 million to help local governments catch urban decay before it spirals out of control. City Detect, the vision AI company helping local governments monitor neighborhood health, announced a $13 million Series A round on Friday, led by Prudence Venture Capital. The startup uses artificial intelligence to scan buildings for signs of blight, graffiti, illegal dumping, and code violations — and it's doing it thousands of times faster than any human crew ever could. The Urban Blight Problem Nobody Talks About Enough Walk through almost any city and you'll spot it: a crumbling facade here, a graffiti-tagged wall there, trash piled against a building that nobody seems responsible for. Urban blight isn't just ugly — it drives down property values, discourages investment, and can signal deeper safety issues in a community. For years, cities have relied on small teams of inspectors to manually log these problems, a process that …