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.

MindBridge seeing ‘significant’ sales uptick for fraud-detection software as offerings expand

As 2022 draws to a close, MindBridge says it’s enjoying another banner year as its artificial intelligence platform continues to get better at finding anomalies and accounting errors buried in customers’ financial spreadsheets.

Downtown businesses cheer feds’ plan for public servants to start returning to office next month

Employees across all departments in the core public service will be subject to a "phased introduction" of the return-to-office plan starting Jan. 16.

Region’s annual pace of housing starts down 25% in November: CMHC

The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of starts – a six-month rolling average designed to smooth out monthly fluctuations – was 14,691 units last month, down from 19,607 in October.

Porter Airlines adding direct service from YOW to Boston, Newark, Quebec City and Thunder Bay in 2023

The new flights are slated to begin on March 27, the Toronto-based airline announced Wednesday.

‘A big pipeline of opportunities’: Kwesst Micro Systems hopes Nasdaq listing will raise defence-tech firm to new level

David Luxton is quietly confident 2023 will be the year Kwesst Micro Systems graduates from a startup to a mature leader in its field.

Ottawa home prices to rise 2% by Q4 of 2023: Royal LePage

The real estate company says the aggregate price in Ottawa will rise to $739,602 by the end of next year, up from an estimated $725,100 this year.

Jennings Real Estate buys Tudor Hall with long-term plan to build multi-residential complex on site

Jennings Real Estate bought the 1.66-acre property just off Riverside Drive near Hunt Club Road from Franco Giammaria and his family, who opened Tudor Hall in the mid-1970s and owned and operated it ever since.

Field Effect Software upsizes funding round to US$34.5M to fuel southern expansion push

The six-year-old company revealed in October it secured US$30 million in scaleup funding from a group of investors led by New Jersey-based private equity firm Edison Partners. 

Ottawa startups remain bullish on fundraising despite headwinds in VC market

While venture capital investment in Canadian firms plummeted in 2022 as tech valuations took a widespread hit and economic headwinds mounted, some Ottawa tech companies say that won’t deter them from pushing ahead with plans to secure more growth funding.

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