The Solink $100M Funding round has closed: Ottawa-based Solink has raised more than $100 million to expand its AI vision intelligence platform, which turns ordinary security cameras into real-time sources of business data for retailers, restaurants, and warehouses. The company announced the funding on October 29, 2026, with Toronto private equity firm Vertu Capital leading the round and Goldman Sachs Alternatives returning as a major participant. It is one of the largest rounds this month for AI applied to the physical world.
What Was Announced?
The growth round was led by Vertu Capital, with material participation from existing investor Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and new investors Golub Growth and Comcast Ventures joining. More than 90 percent of the capital is primary funding going to Solink’s balance sheet, with the remainder buying out stakes from employees and early investors.
The round brings Solink’s total equity raised to more than $198 million, according to SiliconANGLE. It is a step up from the company’s $60 million Series C in July 2023, which was also led by Goldman Sachs. No valuation was disclosed.
Investors framed the bet as a category play. “AI vision intelligence represents one of the most significant opportunities in software today,” said Eric Kafka, partner at Vertu Capital. “Solink has demonstrated the foresight and execution required to define this emerging category.” Mike Reilly, managing director at Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, said strong customer adoption and the company’s product vision made reinvesting “a natural decision.”
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From Surveillance Footage to Business Data
Solink started in Ottawa in 2009 selling cloud video surveillance. Its platform now connects to cameras that businesses already have installed and pairs the video with point-of-sale data, so footage becomes searchable operational intelligence: drive-through speed, checkout queues, inventory gaps, and safety hazards. By the company’s count, roughly 500,000 cameras at more than 35,000 customer locations in 65 countries now feed into the platform, and no proprietary cameras are required.
The AI layer has thickened this year. In February, Solink added AI agents for perimeter security and loss prevention that run on edge devices, and in March its VerifEye command center gained vision language models aimed at filtering out false alarms before a human operator ever sees them.
“We’re entering a watershed moment for how physical businesses operate, as AI Vision Intelligence brings the richness and immediacy of digital data into the physical world,” said Mike Matta, co-founder and CEO of Solink. “Nobody should need to watch footage to know what is happening inside a business.”
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Why It Matters
The raise lands inside a crowded flow of capital into camera-based AI: investors are betting that the fastest path to computer vision at scale is not new hardware but software that mines the millions of cameras already bolted to walls. Solink’s installed base of 500,000 cameras is its moat, and the funding accelerates what the company calls an aggressive AI roadmap plus strategic growth opportunities.
What remains undisclosed is the valuation, and how much of the round is primary versus secondary beyond the rough 90 percent figure. But with revenue-generating scale across 65 countries and a product moving from passive recording toward real-time operational computing, Solink is positioning itself as infrastructure for the next wave of physical AI.
