Solink AI Agents Raise $100M to Expand Vision Intelligence

Ottawa-based Solink AI agents maker Solink has raised more than $100 million in growth financing to expand an AI vision platform that turns the security cameras businesses already own into a network of working sensors. The company announced the round on Thursday, framing it as a push to put more of its intelligence at the edge, close to the camera, rather than in a distant data centre.

Toronto private equity firm Vertu Capital led the financing, according to reporting on the announcement. Existing backer Goldman Sachs Asset Management joined the round, along with new investors Golub Growth and Comcast Ventures. More than 90 percent of the capital is primary funding headed to the company's balance sheet, with the remainder going to secondary stock sales for employees and early investors.

The transaction brings Solink's total equity raised to more than $198 million, according to the same reporting. That scale of backing puts the Ottawa company among the better-capitalized Canadian firms working on applied AI for physical spaces, a corner of the market that has drawn less attention than chatbots and coding agents but touches every store, warehouse and restaurant that already runs cameras.

Solink AI agents move intelligence to the edge

Solink connects its software to cameras that businesses already operate, rather than selling proprietary hardware, according to the company. That distinction matters for adoption: a retailer or restaurant group does not need to rip out its existing camera fleet to start using the platform. The software layer sits on top, reads the video, and turns it into searchable events and alerts.

In February, Solink introduced Solink AI agents designed for perimeter monitoring and loss prevention. Running models on or near the camera means footage can be analysed in near real time without shipping every frame to the cloud. For stores using Solink AI agents, that can mean a faster alert when someone lingers near a restricted area. For a loss-prevention team, it can mean searchable video tied to specific incidents instead of hours of scrolling.

Solink AI agents will benefit as the company plans to use the fresh capital to execute on an AI roadmap, renew its go-to-market efforts, and explore growth through strategic opportunities, according to reporting on the announcement. The roadmap matters because edge AI is a moving target: models get smaller and faster, cameras get smarter, and the companies that keep their software current win the renewal.

Growth targets point to agents as the revenue engine

Solink AI agents maker Solink reported that its revenue has grown between 40 and 50 percent annually, putting it on track to cross $100 million in annualized revenue by April, according to the announcement coverage. That pace, if sustained, would make the financing look less like a lifeline and more like fuel for a company already finding its market.

Looking ahead, the company projected that Solink AI agents and associated intelligence software and associated intelligence software will generate more than 40 percent of its total revenue within three years, up from less than 10 percent today, according to the same coverage. That shift describes a business model in transition: from video software that records what happened, toward agents that notice, interpret and flag what is happening while there is still time to act.

The bet fits a wider pattern across the AI agent economy. Enterprises are increasingly buying agents that do specific jobs, from IT support to finance workflows, rather than general-purpose assistants. Solink AI agents embody that idea by watching the physical world. A camera network that can reason about what it sees is, in effect, an agent workforce already installed in thousands of locations.

There are open questions, as with any surveillance-adjacent technology. Businesses deploying Solink AI agents will need clear policies on what is monitored, how long footage and derived data are kept, and who can search it. The companies that answer those questions well tend to keep their customers; the ones that treat them as an afterthought tend to lose them. Solink's hardware-agnostic approach at least avoids locking customers into one vendor's cameras, which gives buyers more room to set their own rules.

For now, the financing gives Solink room to build. The edge AI agent market is still early, the camera base is enormous, and the company has just added substantial capital to chase it. Other agent-focused firms have raised large rounds this month as well, a sign that investors continue to back agents that solve narrow, measurable problems. Solink AI agents pitch is among the most physical of them: agents that watch the real world, not just the browser. Readers following the agent economy can also see how agent identity and security are becoming a parallel concern, and how agentic IT support is spreading across service providers.

Sources: reporting on the Solink financing from Silicon Report, with additional context on the AI agent funding market from TechCrunch.