Ottawa, Canada – October 30, 2025 – Invest Ottawa proudly celebrates Solink, a homegrown leader in AI-powered security and analytics technology, as the company expands its Ottawa headquarters and sets its sights on reaching 1,000 employees worldwide by 2030.
As reported in a recent BetaKit article, Solink’s renovated west-end headquarters more than doubles its footprint from 14,000 to 31,000 square feet, reflecting rapid growth in both customers and revenue, with the company averaging 50 percent annual increases over the past four years.
Founded in Ottawa in 2009, Solink’s technology leverages artificial intelligence to help businesses get more out of their security cameras. Its cloud video security and analytics platform transforms traditional video footage into valuable operational insights that detect issues, reduce loss, improve safety, and optimize performance in real time.
Today, Solink’s solutions are deployed across 500,000 cameras in 35,000 locations and 60 countries, including major brands such as Tim Hortons.
Solink CEO Michael Matta addresses the audience at the company’s recent ribbon-cutting ceremony.
“We’re proud of our Canadian beginnings and have grown the team here to 400 employees,” Michael Matta, CEO of Solink was quoted in the article. “This expansion is both a celebration of our early ambition and a commitment to making Solink a global leader.”
Innovation and Growth Anchored in Ottawa
With this expansion, Solink aims to strengthen logistics and production capacity, increasing potential output from a few hundred to several thousand systems per month.
Its growth not only creates jobs – it also demonstrates how Ottawa-based companies are shaping global industries, helping businesses protect their assets, enhance operations, and make smarter data-driven decisions through AI innovation.
“Your continued growth exemplifies the spirit of innovation that defines Canada’s Capital Region: bold, visionary, and globally competitive,” Sonya Shorey, President and CEO, Invest Ottawa wrote in a recent post. “From your home base here in Ottawa, you are taking Canadian-built AI to the world, helping over 35,000 organizations across 60+ countries make communities safer, smarter, and more secure.”
Solink joins a growing list of Ottawa-based technology companies expanding their global reach while deepening their roots in Canada’s Capital Region, further reinforcing the city’s position as a centre for AI excellence, security innovation, and talent development.
About Solink
Solink provides AI-powered video surveillance and analytics software that transforms video data into actionable business intelligence. Its solutions help organizations in sectors such as retail, hospitality, logistics, and security enhance operations, reduce risk, and protect people and property. Learn more: www.solink.com.
About Invest Ottawa
Invest Ottawa is the lead economic development agency for knowledge-based industries in Canada’s Capital Region, facilitating economic growth and job creation in Ottawa. Guided by a vision to help realize Ottawa’s full potential as a globally recognized, innovative, inclusive, and future-ready city, Invest Ottawa delivers venture development, global expansion and talent programs and services that catalyze the growth and success of entrepreneurs and firms. These include small business training, mentorship, acceleration for technology firms, foreign business and investment attraction, local business retention and expansion in targeted sectors, commercialization and marketing Ottawa’s diversified economy and high quality of life. Invest Ottawa is also the manager of Bayview Yards, Ottawa’s innovation hub and one-stop business acceleration shop, and founder and operator of Area X.O, the R&D complex for next-gen smart mobility, autonomy, and connectivity technologies. Since 2017, Invest Ottawa has supported and delivered $3.7 billion in GDP impact, 29,343 jobs, and $622 million in government revenues.
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