Calgary-based fashion tech startup Prevoir has closed a $750,000 CAD pre-seed round from Edmonton AI developer AltaML to scale its AI-powered platform. The company also secured $50,000 from Alberta Innovates for product development. Founded in 2023, Prevoir uses AI and computer vision to extract product attributes and connect them to sales and inventory data, helping fashion retailers and merchandisers curate collections, predict trends and analyse performance. The platform is available via a $250 USD monthly subscription and on the Shopify app store as of December 2025. The startup has been testing with brands including New York's Elie Tahari. Prevoir is eyeing a seed funding round in late 2026 whilst focusing on user acquisition and scaling infrastructure.

UpRow, an Edmonton-based app marketplace that assists newcomers, won a pitch competition on May 31 at the Inventures conference by Alberta Innovates in Calgary. It's the second win for UpRow at Inventures in as many years."Between last year and this year, we have grown a lot — we've made some really big, significant strides," company founder and CEO Kelise Williams told Taproot at the event. "We have launched the second version of our app, we are onboarding new partners, and we're really extending our reach."Williams and her company got $10,000 in the Tech Triathlon: Quantum + AI + IoT track of the main Inventures pitch competition. Last year, UpRow was one of five winners in The51's HerStory competition at the conference.UpRow was the lone Inventures winner from the Edmonton region in 2024 across six main pitch tracks and five ancillary tracks. "I'm happy that there was at least one," Williams said, through a laugh.The closest to taking a win was one young innovator in the ancillary Student Pitch Competition. MacEwan University's Sujit Velmurugan came second for his marketing automator, Workflow

Alberta is collaborating with software company AltaML to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technology aimed at predicting wildfire locations.