David Sali

Dave is OBJ's senior features writer 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.
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Strong foundation: Corfix raises new funding round to fuel U.S. expansion

Kwesst Micro Systems raises $3.4M in U.S. private placement

Kwesst Micro Systems said this week it has closed a brokered private placement offering to an institutional accredited investor. The move generated gross proceeds of $3.4 million.

Invest Ottawa, other local groups receive $15.6M in federal funding to boost startups

Invest Ottawa, Carleton University and the University of Ottawa are among the local organizations that will receive...

Ottawa commercial real estate execs ‘seeing the market come alive again’

Michael Pyman, Colliers’ Ottawa-based vice-president of national investment services, says there could be a significant uptick in local commercial transactions in 2025, especially if the Bank of Canada continues to reduce interest rates and it becomes cheaper for investors to borrow capital.

Ericsson partners with feds to boost funding for Kanata R&D centre

Wireless networking technology company Ericsson Canada says it is expanding a previously announced partnership with the federal...

Flair Airlines pulls out of Ottawa market, citing insufficient demand and ‘high fees’

Low-cost carrier Flair Airlines has officially pulled out of Ottawa Airport, blaming insufficient demand and “high” airport...

Ottawa home sales surge nearly 50% in October: OREB

Ottawa home sales soared 46 per cent in October compared with the same month a year ago,...

Noibu, Fellow among Ottawa startups to crack Deloitte’s 2024 Technology Fast 50 rankings

Four Ottawa-based organizations made Deloitte’s 2024 ranking of Canada’s 50 fastest-growing tech companies, while another local startup...

InterRent REIT acquires 50% stake in new downtown Montreal apartment complex

InterRent REIT has teamed up with another firm to acquire a newly constructed apartment building in downtown...

YOW will ‘come close’ to matching pre-COVID passenger volumes in 2024, chair says

Ottawa International Airport Authority chair Bonnie Boretsky said the number of travellers using YOW is steadily climbing thanks to new routes from carriers such as Porter Airlines, which has turned Ottawa into one of its main hubs, and Air France, which launched direct flights from the nation’s capital to Paris last year.
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The narrative surrounding the Canadian tech sector often focuses on boom-and-bust cycles, brain drain, or the historical demise of past giants. But the numbers tell a different story. Driven by evolutionary waves from telecommunications to software-as-a-service, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence, the national technology ecosystem has quietly produced remarkable long-term enterprise value. New research shows that Ottawa tech unicorns have produced at least one billion-dollar firm every single decade, making it the highest per-capita producer of unicorns in the country. Moreso, local tech ventures account for a staggering three-quarters of all-time wealth creation in Canadian tech history, driving $1.4 trillion in wealth over the past 36 years. In this episode of Techopia Live, OBJ publisher Michael Curran celebrates Ottawa Innovation Week by speaking with tech veteran Sasha Gera, chief operating officer of HealWell AI. Gera shares his research and insights from his newly launched ledger, Unicorn North, highlighting how Ottawa stacks up against other major Canadian cities and why it remains the most productive, distraction-free destination for building sustainable, hundred-year companies. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:22 Introducing Sasha Gera 14:45 Sponsor Segment 17:57 Innovation Week 25:15 Closing and What’s Ahead at OBJ For more on Ottawa’s tech and innovation scene, visit https://obj.ca/techopia Subscribe to Techopia’s weekly newsletter here: https://obj121.activehosted.com/f/5
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