Solink has raised over $100 million in funding led by Vertu Capital, with participation from Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Golub Growth and Comcast Ventures. Its AI Vision Intelligence platform transforms existing security cameras into real-time operational insights. Serving 35,000+ locations across 65 countries, Solink plans to accelerate its AI roadmap and global expansion. [link]

Montreal-based Assembler AI has secured $4 million in seed funding led by Diagram ClimateTech Fund, with participation from Drive Capital, Fondaction and others. Its Operator Vision platform monitors manual manufacturing processes, detecting cycle-time deviations, quality issues and production risks. The funding will support expansion across North American manufacturers. [link]

Singapore-based Ailytics has raised $7.4 million in Series A funding led by Tin Men Capital, with participation from SG Growth Capital and Safie. Its Ailyssa platform converts existing industrial CCTV into real-time safety and operations intelligence. With 400+ deployments across 15 countries, the company plans expansion across APAC, the US and Gulf. [link]

Kroger is combining RFID, computer vision and AI to improve inventory accuracy and product availability. Its RFID pilot across approximately 1,500 bakery departments achieved 98% read performance, nearly 70% faster inventory counts and 50% less waste. Kroger plans to expand the technology across more than 2,300 stores by 2029. [link]

Orca AI and Samsung Heavy Industries have commercially launched BerthView, an AI-powered berthing assistance solution combining SeaPod and SVISION. Using fisheye cameras, it provides a 360-degree bird’s-eye view, visual distance guides and virtual safety boundaries. Available for vessel retrofits, the solution aims to improve situational awareness and accelerate autonomous shipping. [link]

OH.io Capital has invested $2 million in CVAT, the open-source platform for annotating images, videos, audio and 3D point clouds used to train AI models. The partnership includes dedicated sales and marketing support to expand enterprise adoption, particularly across manufacturing, robotics, machine vision, geospatial AI and precision agriculture. CVAT has over 17,000 GitHub stars and 3 million downloads. [link]

South Korean startup QBlack AI has secured seed funding from Partners Lounge and Korea Investment Accelerator. Its physics-based digital twin platform simulates camera hardware, imaging environments and AI algorithms without requiring physical prototypes. By generating realistic synthetic data and validating hardware-software combinations, the company aims to reduce computer vision development cycles from weeks to minutes. The funding will support hiring and technology development. [link]

Israeli drone technology company Sightec has raised $5.5 million from Powerhouse Ventures and New River Asset Management. Its flagship NavSight system uses computer vision to enable drones to navigate and land without GPS, including in jammed or GPS-denied environments. The company reports 4,000+ deployments worldwide, targeting defence, security and autonomous drone operations. [link]

LMI Technologies has agreed to acquire Vitronic Machine Vision’s Weld Seam Inspection business unit, expanding its presence in robotic welding and turnkey machine vision solutions. The acquisition strengthens LMI’s capabilities in safety-critical post-weld inspection, including edge AI vision systems. WSI will leverage LMI’s Gocator sensors and GoPxL and GoFactory software platforms. [link]

OpenNebula Systems and Axelera AI have partnered to develop European sovereign AI infrastructure, combining cloud and edge orchestration with energy-efficient AI inference hardware. The collaboration integrates Axelera’s Metis accelerators into OpenNebula’s virtualized platform, enabling on-demand AI computing. Both companies will explore generative AI, LLM serving and large-scale AI Factory deployments. [link]

IDS Imaging has joined Germany’s IPAI platform to advance industrial AI, computer vision and edge AI. Initiatives include collaborative hackathons, AI Vision Circles and hands-on camera experimentation to accelerate practical machine vision applications. [link]

In a recent article in The Week, CTO of US-based Lumana, Ofir Mulla is turning existing surveillance cameras into intelligent AI agents using its proprietary VIA-1 video intelligence model. Its hybrid-cloud architecture enables real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, natural-language video search and operational analytics while processing footage locally

Pony.ai showcases its Robotaxi navigating Zagreb’s urban streets in a fully driverless ride featured by YouTuber Chris Karatsonyi. The company is expanding European testing, with Gen-7 Robotaxis undergoing trials in Manchester and London.