Craig Lord

Four Ottawa tech firms to watch in 2018

Martello Technologies Kanata’s Martello Technologies wasted no time proving why 2018 will be its year. In just the...

Startups to watch: Ottawa’s Spiderwort targets growing biomaterials industry

Unlike our fleshy human bodies, when trees break a limb, they don’t have casts put on their...

Ottawa’s Martello merges with Montreal firm; IPO expected in 2018

With ambitions of going public later this year, Martello Technologies is starting 2018 with a merger that...

Who made the cover of OBJ in 2017?

As we turn the page to 2018, OBJ looks back at some of the people and businesses that we featured on the front cover of the newspaper this past year.

Techopia Year in Review: Shopify’s surging success comes with a price

As Shopify grew, the tech firm entered further into the mainstream and into the scrutiny of the public eye.

Ottawa’s Corel enters emerging sales support field with latest acquisition

Ottawa firm buys SaaS company ClearSlide, a San Francisco-based developer of sales support software that counts The Economist and Buzzfeed among its clients.

Shopify’s Harley Finkelstein joins CBC board of directors

One of Ottawa’s most prominent entrepreneurs will help to guide Canada’s public broadcaster for the next five...

Techopia Year in Review: BlackBerry QNX leads Ottawa’s road to becoming an autonomous vehicle hub

Officials from around the country hoping to establish Ottawa as a hub for autonomous vehicles seem to have set the pace car in their efforts: BlackBerry QNX.

Techopia Year in Review: Amazon HQ2 fever grips Ottawa

Competition to host “HQ2” left Ottawa’s tech sector to speculate about if the city would have a shot – and whether winning would even be a good thing.