City Detect Raises $13 Million Series A

Gunderson Dettmer represented City Detect, a company leveraging vision AI to help local governments monitor the health of buildings and neighborhoods, in its $13 million Series A financing led by Prudence Venture Capital. Zeal Capital Partners, Knoll Ventures, and Las Olas Venture Capital also participated in the round. 

City Detect mounts cameras on public vehicles like garbage trucks and street sweepers, captures photos of surrounding buildings as those vehicles pass, and uses computer vision to analyze the images to ensure the buildings are up to code. The new funding will support City Detect’s plans to expand throughout the U.S., hire more engineers, and advance new storm-detection damage technology, among other things.

“We are seeing huge efficiency gains across the departments that we work with, we’re seeing more instances of blight being solved without anyone receiving a citation, we’re seeing tires and litter, and illegal dumping being abated quicker and detected quicker,” said City Detect co-founder and CEO Gavin Baum-Blake, in a Tech Crunch article profiling the transaction. “It’s exciting to see technology-forward municipalities lean into predictive AI like City Detect’s models.” 

The Gunderson deal team was led by Randall Clark and Neil Toomey and included Ally Kaleita and Jaime Lacson.

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City Detect
Prudence Venture Capital
Zeal Capital Partners
Knoll Ventures
Las Olas Venture Capital