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.

‘Antacid for the ocean’: Ottawa-born cleantech firm foresees lucrative future for carbon-capture system

Techopia

Planetary Technologies has raised nearly $8 million in seed funding as it vies for tens of millions of dollars in prize money in a green-technology

Green dreams: Ex-Canopy Growth exec tackles climate change with new funding platform

Ottawa

Mark Zekulin says he was seeking a venture that would do good and was in a field that was “as exciting and as dynamic” as

Ex-Windmill partner George to lead Colonnade BridgePort’s GTA expansion effort

Real Estate

City’s largest commercial property manager is turning to a veteran of the green building movement to scale up its development pipeline in Ottawa and accelerate

Montreal’s BTB REIT bullish on Ottawa industrial sector as firm pulls trigger on $12.5M buy

Non-Residential

Real estate investment trust is shopping for more warehouse and other commercial space in the National Capital Region as it looks to shift its portfolio

‘Y Combinator on steroids’: Former elite soldier, Shopify co-founder launch security-focused VC fund

Techopia

While the white-collar world of venture capital financing might seem as far removed from the combat theatre of special military operations as Afghanistan is from

Proptech’s prospects may rise in the wake of COVID-19

Techopia

Long before COVID-19 became an omnipresent part of Canadian life, Meredith Thatcher could sense an emerging seismic shift in the way tenants used technology to

Telesat warns supply chain woes could delay Lightspeed launch

Techopia

Ottawa firm said Friday its low-Earth-orbit satellite network aimed at delivering high-speed internet to remote areas might not be in orbit until 2025, a year

Ottawa’s Fullscript chasing magic $1B revenue mark after ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ acquisition of U.S. firm

Techopia

Deal will raise online health-care platform’s annual revenues from $300 million to $600 million while boosting its headcount from about 600 to 950.

Martello lands $2.5M funding boost after two quarters of flat growth

Techopia

Martello Technologies is getting a multimillion-dollar funding boost as it looks to bounce back from a pandemic-fuelled slump that stalled a years-long stretch of virtually

Business prof predicts surge in bankruptcies as soaring inflation spurs rate hikes

Ottawa

A prominent Ottawa business expert is predicting a wave of bankruptcies in the coming months as Canada’s central bank raises its benchmark interest rate in