INLAN just dropped a $5M Series A that feels like the moment the supply chain finally gets its hearing checked. When a Montreal deep-tech outfit built on batteryless IoT tags attracts Saas Fee Limited as lead, with Shea Ventures, TandemLaunch, and several strategic investors joining in, it tells you the market is done pretending it can run AI on half-truths and delayed data. Credit to CEO Ali Shajii and CPO MohammadJavad Hajikhani, because the tech they engineered does not whisper incremental progress. It speaks in full sentences, loud and clear, with a 1000x signal advantage over RFID that makes yesterday’s standards feel like static from an old car radio.
The irony is rich. A platform powered by harvested RF energy lands in a world burning through batteries like they grow on trees. INLAN spent 2023 to 2025 building tags that operate without batteries, cost 200x less than typical active devices, and slash deployment costs by 25x compared to RFID systems. The result is item-level visibility at a scale that used to sit somewhere between wishful thinking and budgetary comedy. TandemLaunch may have incubated the company, but what emerged is not another lab experiment. It is a sensing ecosystem designed for manufacturing floors, warehouses, retailers, and logistics networks that have been begging for real-time truth.
The narrative gets even sharper once you dig into the capabilities. Real-time location tracking. Motion sensing without line of sight. Vibration monitoring for predictive maintenance. Environmental sensing that turns every tagged asset into a storyteller reporting temperature, humidity, and conditions. It plugs cleanly into ERP systems without demanding a sacrificial project team, and Pantek Securities along with Fasken Martineau DuMoulin helped guide the transaction like veterans who recognized the significance of a data backbone built for scale.
What elevates this round is the intellectual wiring behind it. Ali Shajii brings a Ph.D. from MIT and years leading Emphysys and R&D at MKS Instruments, while MohammadJavad Hajikhani shapes the hardware with the precision of someone who treats engineering as both science and craft. Together, they built a platform that blends the affordability of passive RFID with the performance of active IoT in a way that feels almost unfair to everything that came before it.
This funding is not the finish line. It is the ignition point for hardware scale-up, software expansion, AI-ready infrastructure, and enterprise pilots that will show what happens when every item in a supply chain becomes a real-time data source. INLAN is not just raising capital. It is raising expectations in an industry overdue for clarity.
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