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The Ottawa firm, which specializes in customer survey and data collection software, reported revenues of $23.5 million in the 12-month period ending Dec. 31.
The contract win comes less than two months after the Ottawa firm appointed veteran tech executive Philip Deck as co-CEO to lead its pursuit of bigger customers.
Ottawa firm – which, as the story goes, was hatched after its founders weighed the pros and cons of starting their own business over beverages at the Lieutenant’s Pump on Elgin Street – has become a leader in its field, with clients across Canada and beyond.
Six-person Ottawa cleantech startup is one of nine companies from around the world that’s taking part in a three-month accelerator program in Oslo, Norway, backed by international investment firm Techstars and Norwegian energy company Equinor.
More than half a million square feet of industrial space is in the works at two sites in west Kanata as developers scramble to satisfy demand for warehousing and light-manufacturing facilities in the city’s tightest submarket.
The measures include more than $16 billion in tax credits over the next five years for cleantech manufacturing; clean electricity such as wind, solar, hydro, tidal and nuclear; and investments in clean hydrogen production.
Kanata-based company has partnered with organizations such as the National Research Council to develop technology that makes computer chips faster and more energy-efficient.
Dan Goldberg tried to calm analysts’ concerns about the company’s financial future Wednesday, assuring them he remains “confident” the Ottawa firm will raise enough capital to get its next-generation satellites off the ground.