Techopia Staff

With valuations down and a tight venture capital market, tech venture founders are looking for ways to stretch their working capital. In some cases, that means cutting expenses and laying off employees. In other instances, it means going back to early-stage investors for more money.

In this episode of Techopia Live, Ottawa Business Journal publisher Michael Curran talks with Alfred Jay about this quarter century working in local tech, why Recollective is finding such traction with its customers these days, and what artificial intelligence might mean to market research in years to come.

Ottawa-based companies raised 23 per cent less venture capital in 2023 than they brought in a year earlier, a new study says, mirroring a national trend that saw total VC funding to Canadian firms drop by more than third last year compared with 2022.

In this episode of Techopia Live, Ottawa Business Journal publisher Michael Curran speaks to Miron about his passion for advising young entrepreneurs and what he is excited about at Invest Ottawa.

In this episode of Techopia Live, correspondent Riaz Sidi visits TechTuesday, a monthly event organized by the Wesley Clover Foundation.

In this episode of Techopia Live, Ottawa Business Journal publisher Michael Curran speaks with Storm chairman and CEO Birket Foster about how this longstanding local internet service provider continues to thrive and how upcoming CRTC decisions could open up new opportunities.

In this episode of Techopia Live, the Ottawa Business Journal speaks with Yazdani about her growing business ventures, her business model, and what might come next in her entrepreneurial journey.

Growcer co-founders Corey Ellis and Alida Burke are determined to improve food security, especially for Indigenous communities in Canada’s North, through innovation in agriculture.

In this bonus episode of Techopia Live, Michael Curran of Ottawa Business Journal and Susan Richards of numbercrunch explore what AI could mean to Ottawa’s technology sector.

Wesley Clover International occupies a unique role in Ottawa’s technology ecosystem. It’s more than a company. It’s a foundation upon which dozens of technology startups have launched and scaled.