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  • Anchorbase closes a $2 million USD pre-seed round

  • Qubic raises an oversubscribed $2.5 million USD seed round

  • Wyvern gets selected for a NASA satellite data program

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Calgary's Lex Technologies launches an AI architecture built around enterprise trust

Left to right: CTO Imad Victor Lahoud, CEO and founder Tristan Vivier, and COO Glenn Sando. Photo: Lex Technologies

For many organizations, the promise of enterprise AI runs into a practical wall: internal documents, contracts, compliance records, and operational manuals contain sensitive information that can't be freely handed to external AI tools. Existing AI systems can produce hallucinations, inconsistent interpretations, and unverifiable answers when applied to that kind of material.

Calgary-based Lex Technologies is trying to solve the enterprise AI trust problem at the architecture level. The company has launched Lex AI, a platform built on patent-pending reasoning layers and what it describes as deterministic retrieval — an approach Lex says is designed to eliminate hallucination risk by grounding every answer in source material and making it traceable back to the underlying documents.

"Businesses should not have to choose between the speed of AI and the security, accuracy, and control required for enterprise use," said Tristan Vivier, CEO of Lex Technologies. "Our architecture allows organizations to retrieve precise, cited, and actionable answers from their own knowledge without exposing sensitive data or relying on unreliable AI outputs."

The platform is aimed at organizations where accuracy and security are a priority — regulatory, legal, compliance, and operationally complex environments where unverifiable answers create real problems. Alongside its broader enterprise platform, Lex Technologies has also developed a separate regulatory research tool that gives companies access to source-cited answers across complex regulatory environments.

Lex AI is currently available for enterprise organizations, with the company working with select partners across regulated industries on initial deployments.

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🤝 Funding, Deals, and Partnerships

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  • Qubic secures oversubscribed $2.5 million USD seed round. The University of Calgary’s UCeed participated alongside Two Small Fish Ventures, UC Investments, and Quantacet. Qubic

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