Our Story, Mission, and Team

Designed & Built in Canada

About Soralink

Trusted by industry leaders across North America. Headquartered in Brossard, Quebec.


Our Story

In 2021, a manufacturing veteran and a smart-sensor innovator recognized the same broken promise: traditional IoT gave factories endless data but zero certainty. Maintenance teams were drowning in alarm fatigue, not preventing failures. Predictive maintenance remained locked behind data science expertise that most facilities simply did not have.

Drs. Yun Yao and Jean-Samuel Chenard saw that something had changed. Energy-efficient hardware, reliable wireless protocols, and high-capability AI had finally converged. The gap between raw sensor data and real answers was closeable — but only if the intelligence layer was designed from the ground up to serve the factory floor, not the algorithm.

They built Soralink on one core insight: an intelligence layer is only as good as the hardware feeding it — and even the best algorithm lacks the judgment of a seasoned mechanic.

Today, Soralink delivers what traditional IoT never could: certainty. Every anomaly our AI detects is reviewed by our experts before an alert is ever sent.


Mission

To provide operations of any digital maturity a direct shortcut from reactive to predictive maintenance — delivering verified, accurate machine condition monitoring with no false alerts.


Vision

To lead the next era of industrial autonomy, where every machine is visible, understood, and optimized. A world where machine intelligence enables continuous progress and unplanned downtime is the exception.


Core Values

  1. Absolute Reliability — Every alert we send is human-verified. When we say a machine needs attention, it does.
  2. Radical Accessibility — Advanced AI that works for any facility, regardless of digital maturity or existing hardware.
  3. Continuous Evolution — A continuous feedback loop of expert validation makes the AI sharper every day.
  4. Accountable Craftsmanship — Hardware and software designed and built in Canada, with the quality and proximity of a local partner.
  5. Human-Centered Intelligence — AI detects the anomaly. Our experts deliver the certainty.

Co-Founders

Yun Yao, CEO & Co-Founder of Soralink

Yun Yao, PhD

CEO & Co-Founder

Dr. Yun Yao holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from McGill University. Before co-founding Soralink in 2021, she co-founded Tactile Labs (2010), a non-profit advancing haptics research, and spent 12 years working in manufacturing — experiencing firsthand the daily frustrations of reactive maintenance and alarm fatigue. She serves on the Board of Directors of the REAI and has been featured on multiple industry podcasts discussing AI, IoT, and predictive model drift in industrial environments.
Jean-Samuel Chenard, CTO & Co-Founder of Soralink

Jean-Samuel Chenard, PhD

CTO & Co-Founder

Dr. Jean-Samuel Chenard holds a PhD in Microelectronics from McGill University. A serial entrepreneur and professional engineer with a 25-year career in smart sensors and embedded systems, he founded Optimal Microsystems and Motsai Research (2010) before co-founding Soralink. His expertise in miniature sensor design and wireless communication systems forms the technical foundation of the Soralink sensor lineup.

AWS Strategic Partnership

Soralink has a strategic agreement with Amazon Web Services to deliver scalable Industrial IoT solutions using Amazon Monitron technology. Soralink is positioned as the definitive successor for Amazon Monitron customers seeking a complete predictive maintenance ecosystem. This partnership was officially announced at VivaTech Paris in June 2025.


Accelerators and Recognition

  • Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Lab — Cohort 2024; $250,000 investment secured
  • Next AI — 2022 graduate; $25,000 grant awarded
  • District 3 Innovation — 2021 graduate
  • L-Spark — 2023 graduate
  • Plug and Play — 2023 startup immersion (San Francisco)
  • The Firehood (SAAS NORTH) — 3rd Place, $20,000 investment (2023)
  • CTAQ Innovation Awards — Finalist, Technology and Productivity (2023)
  • VivaTech Paris — Part of largest-ever Canadian delegation (2025)
  • Hannover Messe — Exhibitor (2024)

Partners and Clients

Soralink is trusted by leading organizations across food and beverage manufacturing and industrial operations:

Excellence Industrielle Saint-Laurent, Olymel, POM, Lassonde, Leclerc, Yaya, SPB, USI Home, Modern Niagara, Saputo, Digifab, STI Maintenance, Unidindon, SPB Solution, Relocalize, Nova, Lantic, Agropur, Eska.


Headquarters

9935 Chateauneuf, Suite 170, Entree 2 Brossard, QC, J4Z 3V4 Canada

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