Devolutions makes strategic investment in Obkio
What's the deal? DevolutionsDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a Canadian IT security and remote access management company, has made a strategic investment in ObkioDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a network monitoring and observability startup founded in 2018. The deal, announced in June 2026, pairs two companies that serve overlapping audiences — IT professionals, sysadmins, and managed service providers — but from different angles.
Devolutions, founded in 2010, is known for its flagship product Remote Desktop Manager and operates in over 140 countries. Obkio builds software that continuously monitors network performance across distributed infrastructure, pinpointing where, when, and why problems occur.
Why now? Obkio has been developing a product called Insight — an auto-diagnostic feature its chief executive officer Pierre-Luc Charbonneau described as the company's most ambitious technical leap. "When I saw the first versions delivered a few months ago, I knew we had done it. At a scale we'd never reached before," Charbonneau said. "To bring this product to market at the scale it deserves, you need solid backing."
The two companies have known each other since 2018. Charbonneau recalled visiting the Devolutions campus that year and telling his co-founder: "That's what we want to become when we grow up."
What could go wrong? Strategic investments from larger companies can create dependency risks for startups. If Obkio's product roadmap becomes too closely aligned with Devolutions' ecosystem, it could limit its appeal to customers using competing remote access tools. Integration challenges between the two platforms could also slow execution.
The signal: Obkio remains at the early stage, making Devolutions' strategic bet a sign of growing appetite among established IT toolmakers to lock in complementary capabilities through investment rather than internal development. The pairing of secure access with network observability reflects a market where distributed infrastructure demands integrated diagnostics — and where corporate investors increasingly see early-stage network monitoring as a gap worth filling before larger players consolidate the space.
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