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Techopia Live: Aetonix tackles at-home care market in Ontario, U.S.

As pressure on Ontario’s healthcare system rises amid concerns of overcrowding in hospitals, one Ottawa startup is...

Tehama, offshoot of Ottawa’s Pythian, accepted to New York accelerator

An Ottawa-based SaaS developer is headed to the Big Apple to join the next cohort of a...

Kanata-based Equispheres lands $8M cleantech funding from BDC

The Business Development Bank of Canada is putting $8 million from its cleantech fund into a made-in-Ottawa...

Ottawa’s SmartCone partners with IBM Watson to improve worksite safety

A made-in-Ottawa Internet of Things device will work alongside one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence...

Dragons’ Den holding auditions for Ottawa entrepreneurs in March

Ordinarily the threat of dragons roaming the countryside and descending onto unwitting cities is enough to send...

Invest Ottawa adds four startups to accelerator program

Invest Ottawa has added another four startups to its rolling accelerator program, bringing the total number of...

Techopia Live: Ottawa’s Contextere laying the foundations for global AI success

Techopia Live got a crash course in business fundamentals this week from Contextere, an Ottawa firm working...

Ottawa-based Telesat to launch low-earth orbit satellites on Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket

Ottawa’s Telesat is partnering with some of the biggest companies in space to put its satellites into...

Techopia Live: Tracking the evolution of Kanata’s L-Spark accelerator

From its origins as an upstart accelerator for Canadian SaaS firms to its new program partnering with...

FedDev Ontario puts $615K into Ottawa startup’s first responder tech

An Ottawa startup equipping first responders with smart tech has received a $615,000 loan from FedDev Ontario,...
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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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