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Urbint, a startup developing AI-powered solutions for infrastructure and utility safety, today announced it has raised a $20 million round. The company will use the capital to scale products and expand into new markets and countries, with the goal of delivering "quantifiable" improvements in worker well-being. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, energy companies around the U.S. were forced to send workers home to reduce the spread of infection. This exacerbated many of the industry's longstanding challenges, like how to minimize risks from severe weather, aging infrastructure, and workforce turnover while identifying threats that could cause high-consequence outages to facilities like hospitals and nursing homes. Urbint taps AI to anticipate and prevent catastrophic power failures, with models of the world and machine learning that enable risk-driven decision-making.