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Meet Ottawa’s 2020 Bootstrap Award winners

The annual event is a celebration of self-funded start-ups and entrepreneurs from a variety of categories. 

Techopia Live: Behind the scenes of Calian’s latest acquisitions

Alio, part of $14.5M deal, began as a business to connect patients with trained nurses for in-home care

L-Spark partners with Queen’s University on Women in Tech Accelerator

L-Spark and Queen's recently announced Compass North, an accelerator program targeting female entrepreneurs in Belleville, Kingston and Brockville

Techopia Live: Entrust Datacard bringing cybersecurity to physical identification

While the cyber arena might be more hazardous than ever before, the physical world – and its intersections with the digital realm – is increasingly under scrutiny for its level of security

Venture capital flowing into Ottawa dries up in final half of 2019: MoneyTree report

Despite a strong start to the year for Ottawa companies raising venture capital, the second half of 2019 saw a sharp decline in funding for local firms

Invest Ottawa partnership brings Microsoft for Startups program to the capital

The capital’s brightest startups now have access to the services and sales arm of one of the world’s biggest tech companies, thanks to a new partnership between Microsoft and Invest Ottawa

Three Ottawa companies rank on 2020 Narwhal List of Canada’s high-potential firms

Three of Ottawa’s most well-funded companies are ranked among Canada’s biggest IPO prospects, according to the 2020 edition of the Narwhal List

Techopia Live: Kanata’s March Networks applies video security to cannabis tracking

CEO Peter Strom joined Techopia Live this week to talk about how the firm stays fresh in a rapidly changing industry

Ottawa tech execs to headline TEDxKanata 2020

Local technology leaders will look to fire up the crowd onstage at TEDxKanata in March as they share their own perspectives on this year’s theme: Ignite

Techopia Live: Capital Angel Network crests $5M in investments in 2019

Ottawa’s local network of angel investors cracked a significant milestone in 2019 as it heads towards a decade of supporting the capital’s up-and-coming startups
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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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