Montreal-based Shearwater Aerospace has closed a $3 million seed round to accelerate commercialisation of Smart Flight, its AI-powered autonomous flight platform for uncrewed aircraft. The round was led by a strategic Canadian corporate venture capital investor. Smart Flight enables drone operations in challenging weather and complex terrain by leveraging real-time environmental intelligence. The drone-agnostic technology extends operational range by 30%, improves transit efficiency by 25%, and reduces pilot workload by 90%. Founded as a TandemLaunch portfolio company, Shearwater partners with drone system integrators and prime contractors for beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations across commercial and defence programmes. The funding will support customer deployment, expand autonomous capabilities, and scale engineering and customer-facing teams.

INLAN, a Montreal-based technology company, has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Saas Fee Limited, with participation from Shea Ventures, TandemLaunch and strategic individual investors. The company develops battery-less IoT tags and AI-ready data infrastructure for supply chains. INLAN's technology combines the affordability of RFID with the performance of active IoT devices, enabling granular, real-time data collection. CEO Ali Shajii said current sensing technologies are either too limited or too expensive to provide the data quality needed for AI-driven supply chain management. The funding will support large-scale deployment of INLAN's hardware and expansion of its software platform. The company has spent two years developing the technology and will now scale into real-world industrial and supply chain applications.