Ottawa shines at Startup Canada gala
An Ottawa-based company that uses groundbreaking laser technology to restore sight to people with impaired vision has been named the latest winner of the Startup
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David Sali
Dave is OBJ’s senior writer and editor with two decades of experience in the newspaper industry working for a variety of publications from community weeklies to major dailies. He is a four-time award-winning journalist by the Alliance of Area Business Publishers (AABP). He has received awards for best news feature, best scoop and best overall writer among medium-sized business publications.
Ottawa’s Mxi Technologies acquired by IFS; CEO Slangerup departs
Aviation software maker Mxi Technologies announced Tuesday it is being acquired by Swedish enterprise software firm IFS, calling the deal a springboard for growth that will allow
New $10M Innovation Centre lab to help Ottawa startups test IoT, smart city tech
Ottawa’s recently completed Innovation Centre at Bayview Yards will be receiving millions of dollars worth of advanced communications equipment that proponents say will help local startups
Tartan Homes founder Wes Nicol ‘left his mark’ as champion of Ottawa entrepreneurship
When entrepreneur Wes Nicol addressed students at Carleton University’s convocation ceremony in 2006, he offered words of wisdom that couldn’t have been more appropriate coming
HostedBizz’s acquisition of ITUtility.Net helps Ottawa firm expand beyond the capital
One of Ottawa’s fastest-growing companies has acquired a Toronto firm in a bid to expand its cloud-based services. Data backup and recovery firm HostedBizz, which ranked
Ottawa medical software firm Cliniconex readies for expansion
With health-care spending eating up nearly half of the provincial government’s annual budget, an Ottawa company says its software can help stop the bleeding when
FileFacets lands $4M in financing to cap off November to remember for Kanata startup
Of all the entrepreneurs who took the stage at this month’s Best Ottawa Business Awards, probably none had a bigger grin than FileFacets co-founder Chris Perram.
Good call: Ottawa firm’s U.S. election prediction not far off mark
In the aftermath of a U.S. presidential election that garnered almost as many headlines for how pundits called it wrong as it did for Donald
Web design startup PageCloud lands $5.4M in Series-A funding
Craig Fitzpatrick is on a mission to “fix the Internet” – one he hopes just got a little easier thanks to millions of dollars in
Ottawa tech mentor urges feds to reduce risks for venture capital investors
A veteran entrepreneur and mentor to a host of successful startups, Leo Lax has no doubt that Canadian tech enterprises can thrive head-to-head against competitors
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