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Techopia Live: Spectrafy co-founders making solar spectral data affordable

Techopia Live put the lights on Spectrafy this week, an Ottawa-based startup with the federal government’s seal...

Techopia Live: Spectrafy co-founders making solar spectral data affordable

Techopia Live put the lights on Spectrafy this week, an Ottawa-based startup with the federal government’s seal...

Techopia Live: L-Spark adapts SaaS accelerator but keeps the ‘aggressive style’

Strapped with lessons learned from their previous cohorts, L-Spark’s Leo Lax and Jamie Petten dropped by Techopia...

Ottawa-based Spectrafy lands federal contract for national solar sensor network

An Ottawa-based startup’s technology will power a network of climate and solar measurement systems across Canada after...

Full list revealed of Ottawa’s Startup Open House participants

Ottawa startups are closing off October by opening their doors and sharing their treats with the public;...

Techopia Live: Driving more government innovation, women in tech

Techopia Live’s Wednesday line-up was full of guests fed up with the status quo. Innogov founders Paul Harding...

Techopia Live: Everyone is a 3D modeller in Masterpiece VR’s world

Jonathan Gagne’s outlook changed in unexpected ways the first time he tried on a virtual reality headset....

Techopia Live: Ottawa gears up for Canada’s first on-road autonomous vehicle demo

Kanata’s credentials as the autonomous vehicle capital of Canada will get a major boost tomorrow during the...

No filter: Shopify teams up with Instagram to expand merchants’ reach

Buried in the avalanche of news about Shopify’s shares plunging last week was a new agreement between...

Techopia Live: Can gamification end distracted driving?

With current fines and penalties proving to be ineffective in the battle against distracted driving, an Ottawa...
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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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