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Ottawa health startup Welbi wins $50K Ontario Brain Institute award

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Ottawa’s Ranovus, Giatec to receive millions in federal clean-tech funding

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Kanata’s L-Spark accelerator unveils fall 2018 cohort

The L-Spark accelerator is widening its sectors of focus but keeping closer to Ottawa with the first...

Kanata’s L-Spark accelerator partners with payment processor Stripe

Kanata-based accelerator L-Spark has struck a partnership with one of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing payment processors. L-Spark, which got...

Techopia Live: Pythian side business Tehama secures the international workforce

If your business has ever tapped a third party or remote worker for services, you might be...

Techopia Live: Hollywood comes to Ottawa’s autonomous vehicles hub

Before autonomous vehicles were being built in our own backyards, people would turn to Hollywood to inform...

Techopia Live: Kinaxis, Mitel leaders share how #MeToo affected Ottawa tech firms

This week, Techopia Live called on some of Ottawa’s largest tech firms to tackle an issue bigger...
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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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