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SensorUp Closes Growth Financing to Scale its Agentic Operations Platform for Heavy Industry

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Round led by Pender Ventures, with participation from Climate Investment, Evok Innovations, and Occidental. New capital will accelerate deployment of the AI-enablement platform already running inside five OGCI member companies and regional operators, with expansion into adjacent industrial verticals underway.

CALGARY, AB, June 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ – SensorUp Inc., the operational intelligence platform powering integrated operations across asset-heavy industries, announced today the close of a growth financing round led by Pender Ventures. The round includes participation from Climate Investment, Evok Innovations, and Occidental, a strategic investor and client.

SensorUp is the operational intelligence layer for asset-heavy industries: turning fragmented field data, engineering records, and sensor streams into auditable, agent-ready workflows. Operators use the platform today to surface underperforming wells before production is lost, to triage flare and vent events against regulatory thresholds, to coordinate turnaround readiness across thousands of components, to detect and resolve methane leaks, and to assemble emissions inventories that withstand regulator and capital-markets scrutiny, all on a single asset model rather than five disconnected tools.

The platform’s hardened components: asset hierarchy, calculations, review and approval, reporting, and workflow orchestration give customers, consultants, and AI agents a shared foundation to build on, with the auditability, security, and scalability that heavy industry requires. Adding a new use case is configuration, not a new product build. That same architecture is what makes the platform extensible beyond oil and gas, into power generation, utilities, mining, and chemicals, wherever distributed assets, multimodal data, and regulated operations meet.

The round was led by Pender Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on companies that drive the innovation economy as legacy systems are replaced with modern tools. As investors, they focus on finding companies with solutions that have proven their ability to increase revenue, reduce costs, and improve outcomes.

“Industrial software has been waiting for a platform with both genuine architectural differentiation and the field credibility to deploy it at scale. SensorUp has both,” said Cheri Corbett, Partner at Pender Ventures. “Their ontology-based data fabric, their position inside the world’s most demanding industrial operators, and the way customers are pulling them into agentic workloads make this exactly the kind of inflection-point company our fund was built to back. Ultimately, we back teams, and this one has earned a level of operator trust that took years to build and would take competitors years to replicate.”

The capital will be deployed across three priorities aligned with SensorUp’s next phase of growth:

Accelerating customer deployment: Expanding SensorUp’s API framework, advancing zero-touch deployment, and scaling expansion through structured prototyping workshops that compress time-to-value from quarters to weeks.

Enhancing the agentic platform: Investing in advanced AI, modeling, and vertical-specific capabilities, including SensorUp’s Operations AI Agents — the production-grade agents that customers are deploying on top of the platform.

Fueling multi-vertical expansion: Building the data infrastructure, go-to-market, and customer success capacity to support a growing base of customers and the expanding scope of workflows running on SensorUp.

“Our customers are eager to deploy AI strategies, but they need a trusted platform and partner to design and build solutions with them,” said Julia Hole, Chief Financial Officer of SensorUp. “SensorUp was forged in the highly complex environment of methane detection, resolution, and measurement at global scale. That foundation naturally positions us to take on our customers’ next most pressing data challenge: operationalizing AI for tangible ROI. This financing allows us to accelerate a roadmap our customers are actively driving.”

About SensorUp

SensorUp is the agentic system of action for heavy industry — the AI-enablement platform that turns operational chaos into orchestrated execution across distributed assets, multimodal data, and complex workflows. Forged in partnership with the world’s largest oil and gas operators and hardened across thousands of distributed assets, SensorUp is in production today with five OGCI member companies and a growing roster of regional operators, with expansion into adjacent industrial verticals underway. The company is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta. Learn more at sensorup.com.

About Pender Ventures

Pender Ventures is a venture capital investor focused on health tech and B2B technology companies at the inflection point between commercialization and scale. As a hands-on, high-conviction investor, Pender Ventures partners closely with founders to accelerate growth and build category-leading businesses.

With deep roots in the Canadian innovation ecosystem and the flexibility to invest across North America, the team operates from offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary. Learn more at penderventures.com.

About Climate Investment

Climate Investment (CI) is an independently managed specialist investor focused on driving industrial decarbonization. It invests in companies aiming to drive high GHG impact in energy-intensive sectors, targeting opportunities that may deliver scaled, quantified carbon reduction alongside attractive risk-adjusted returns. The firm seeks to accelerate impact by investing and collaborating widely. It provides venture to growth capital to companies, and supports them across their business lifecycle, with the objective of delivering both measurable GHG impact and financial success

The firm has made over 40 investments across energy, industry, buildings, and transportation. CI’s portfolio companies offer solutions that avoid, reduce, recycle or store emitted methane or carbon dioxide. The firm reports its portfolio’s quantified GHG impact annually against a methodology it has co-developed with other investors to encourage adoption of common metrics. In the period 2019-2024 its portfolio companies collectively realized 133 million tonnes of CO2e1 of GHG reduction.

Climate Investment was founded by members of the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative. They have invested in Climate Investment funds and deployed many of its portfolio innovations, supporting their early commercial development. Visit www.climateinvestment.com.

About Evok Innovations

Evok Innovations is a leading climate-focused venture capital firm investing in hard tech solutions for heavy industry. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to scale transformative technologies in our focus areas of energy, mining & minerals, industrial optimization, and adaptation & resilience. 

Beyond capital, Evok delivers deep technical expertise, real-world operating experience, and unparalleled industry access through our network of global strategic partners. We work closely with our portfolio companies to bridge innovation to market adoption, accelerate commercialization, and create clear pathways to scale and exit.

For more information, please visit: evokinnovations.com.

About Occidental

Occidental is an international energy company that produces, markets and transports oil and natural gas to maximize value and provide resources fundamental to life. The company leverages its global leadership in carbon management to advance lower-carbon technologies and products. Headquartered in Houston, Occidental primarily operates in the United States, the Middle East and North Africa. To learn more, visit oxy.com.

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Highstar Launches Full-Chain Battery Cell Portfolio for AI Data Centers

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NANTONG, China, July 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Highstar unveiled its full-chain battery cell solution for artificial intelligence data centers (AIDCs) at the 2026 GGII Energy Storage Industry Summit. The portfolio spans three critical power layers: grey-space UPS and high-voltage direct current (HVDC) systems, white-space battery backup units (BBUs), and grid-side energy storage.

Targeted cells for grey-space and white-space challenges

As AI workloads increase rack density and load volatility, data centers require faster response, dependable backup, controlled temperature rise and stronger lifecycle performance. Highstar’s solution centers on two products for the layers closest to computing loads.

For grey space, the 85Ah high-rate lithium iron phosphate cell is designed for UPS and HVDC systems that must deliver high power rapidly and sustain reliable backup under frequent pulse conditions. High-rate discharge, thermal control, safety and durability support compact system design while helping operators balance availability with lifecycle cost. In addition, the 50Ah sodium-ion battery cells are better suited for operation across a wide temperature range of -40°C to 80°C.

For white-space BBUs,  Highstar offers a portfolio of tabless cylindrical cells spanning 18650 and 21700 formats, with both LFP and high-nickel NMC chemistries. Designed for BBU applications, these cells deliver high instantaneous power, low internal resistance, reduced temperature rise and enhanced safety, while accommodating different rack-space, power and cost requirements.

Completing the chain with grid-side storage

The grid-side system uses 314Ah lithium-ion cells and 160Ah sodium-ion cells, balancing long-duration energy storage, cycle life, and rapid power support. Together, the three layers create a coordinated portfolio extending from rack-level protection and system-level backup to upstream energy storage.

The portfolio combines lithium-ion and sodium-ion chemistries with prismatic and cylindrical platforms. Highstar’s technology integrates cathode, anode, electrolyte and separator development with structural approaches including tabless current collection, precision pressure relief and directional venting.

From individual cells to application collaboration

The full-chain architecture is designed to reduce selection and integration complexity for power equipment suppliers, system integrators and data center operators. It also provides a common foundation for joint validation and application-specific development across AIDC power architectures.

During the summit, Highstar also participated in the launch of the “2026 Global AIDC Power Supply Industry Development Blue Book” and was honored as a “Top Benchmark in AIDC Energy Storage,” earning authoritative recognition from the industry.

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Huawei Unveils Upgraded Xinghe Intelligent Network for Southern Africa

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JOHANNESBURG, July 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At the Huawei Network Summit 2026 held in Johannesburg, Huawei unveiled its upgraded Xinghe Intelligent Network Solution for the Southern African region under the new philosophy of “Secure and Intelligent Connectivity.” This move reaffirms Huawei’s efforts to advance all intelligence across industries together with customers and partners.

With the rapid rise of AI agents, AI is expanding beyond daily office tasks into mission-critical production services. Industry focus has recently pivoted from token consumption to Daily Active Agents (DAA)—signaling the arrival of mass agent adoption, which in turn necessitates fully upgraded next-generation networks.

Leon Wang, President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, said, “As AI moves into core production, networks are shifting from ubiquitous ultra-broadband to AI-centric architecture building on four pillars: lossless compute to unleash computing power; integrated sensing and communications to enable AI perception; full-scope security to address AI-driven threats; and network autonomy to ensure always-on services.”

Powered by a next-generation intelligent network foundation, Southern Africa’s digital and intelligent transformation is embarking on an all-new path.

“Today, AI is becoming a key driver of global innovation, and its adoption in Africa is transitioning from pilot exploration to real-world deployment, accelerating intelligent transformation across sectors such as finance, education, and public services,” said Vincent Chen, Vice President of Enterprise Business, Southern Africa Region, Huawei. “For the Southern African market, Huawei’s goal is to advance all intelligence across industries by collaborating with industry partners to build intelligent, secure, and reliable network infrastructure for the AI era.”

With the explosive growth of AI agents, new scenarios and requirements are emerging rapidly, placing unprecedented technical demands on networks.

“Network infrastructure faces four major challenges on enterprises’ digital and intelligent journeys. These include the ever-widening gap between computing supply and demand; traffic pattern shifts driven by AI agents; surging O&M complexity; and new AI-driven attacks compounding the vulnerabilities of new systems,” said Arthur Wang, Vice President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line. “To address these challenges, Huawei has upgraded its Xinghe Intelligent Network Solution under the ‘Secure and Intelligent Connectivity’ philosophy. The first is an intelligence upgrade, expanding AI beyond O&M into the entire network. The second is a security upgrade, advancing from single-point defense to end-to-end protection that deeply converges network and security. Through these two key upgrades, we aspire to build the solid connectivity foundation for every enterprise in the Agentic AI era.”

Huawei also unveiled its upgraded Xinghe Intelligent Network product portfolio and the Xinghe AI CloudCampus SaaS Service Platform for the Southern African region. Shi Lei, Vice President of the NCE Data Communication Domain of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, stated, “In the past, intelligent O&M was a luxury exclusive to large enterprises. Now, we have deeply integrated AI into the cloud management service platform, enabling SMEs to easily access these capabilities as a cloud service. This is more than tech inclusion; it is about making AI network services genuinely accessible, affordable, and actionable.”

Also at the summit, Huawei presented honorary awards to 12 long-term customers for their remarkable shared journey in the data communication domain. Furthermore, industry pioneers across finance, healthcare, transportation, electric power, and ISP shared real-world success stories in accelerating digital transformation.

Looking ahead, Huawei will remain committed to its “AI for All, All on Secure IP” vision, continuously upgrading its Xinghe Intelligent Network Solution under the “Secure and Intelligent Connectivity” philosophy to stride into the intelligent era with customers and partners.

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AnX Robotica Launches NaviCONNECT™: Connecting the Future of Capsule Endoscopy

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PLANO, Texas, July 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AnX Robotica, a leader in advanced gastrointestinal diagnostic solutions, today announced the commercial launch of NaviCONNECT™, its next-generation cloud platform designed to streamline capsule endoscopy workflow, simplify practice management, and enhance connectivity across the NaviCam® portfolio of products.

NaviCONNECT provides healthcare providers with secure, cloud-based access to capsule studies and reporting, enabling clinicians to access studies from virtually anywhere. Designed to support the evolving needs of GI practices and health systems, NaviCONNECT delivers a modern, scalable platform that enhances operational efficiency, simplifies software updates, and provides the foundation for future innovations in artificial intelligence and enterprise connectivity.

“NaviCONNECT represents a significant milestone in our vision of delivering a fully connected capsule endoscopy ecosystem,” said Stu Wildhorn, Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at AnX Robotica. “By moving to a secure cloud-based platform, we are providing our customers the option of a simpler, more efficient way to manage capsule studies today while creating the infrastructure to support future AI capabilities, enterprise analytics, and expanded clinical workflow solutions.”

NaviCONNECT seamlessly integrates with the AnX Robotica NaviCam Small Bowel portfolio, including NaviCam SB with ProScan™ and NaviCam XS and is designed for future capsule technologies.

The launch of NaviCONNECT reinforces AnX Robotica’s commitment to advancing capsule endoscopy through innovative technologies that improve workflow, expand clinical capabilities, and enhance the experience for both providers and patients. As the foundation for the company’s digital strategy, NaviCONNECT will continue to evolve with new capabilities designed to support enterprise customers, AI-driven clinical insights, and the future of gastrointestinal diagnostics.

For more information about NaviCONNECT and the complete portfolio of AnX Robotica diagnostic technologies, visit www.anxrobotica.com.

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