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Afternoon Brief · October 29th 2026

Solink raises more than $100 million to read business data out of existing security cameras

Solink, an Ottawa company, raised more than $100 million led by Vertu Capital, with Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, Golub Growth and Comcast Ventures, taking its total past $198 million. Its software runs vision-language models and on the cameras retailers, restaurants and warehouses already own, for loss prevention and for screening false alarms in security operations centers B.

The company says about 500,000 cameras at more than 35,000 locations in 65 countries feed its platform. That installed base is the asset: it sells AI as a software layer on hardware nobody has to replace. SourcesB

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This story ran in the Afternoon Brief of October 29th 2026.