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Member365 lands partnership with downtown management industry group

A partnership with a North American group is bringing hundreds of downtown management organizations under Ottawa-based Member365’s...

Techopia Live: Assent Compliance’s ‘winner-takes-all’ mentality

On the surface, Assent Compliance appears to be chasing a niche market. The firm specializes in software that...

Techopia Live: Mitel CFO Steve Spooner breaks down Ottawa firm’s $430M ShoreTel acquisition

Industry veteran explains the thinking behind the purchase, Mitel’s M&A strategy and why businesses are losing interest in managing their phone and communication systems in-house.

As Liberals tout ‘innovation agenda,’ CRA keeps scaling back SR&ED credits: CATA

CATA argues $5.3 billion has been removed from the program between 2009 and 2016.

Do you need a computer science degree to break into Ottawa’s tech sector?

Techopia was on the road again this week, dropping by the Rideau Street offices of PageCloud for...

Bell joins Ottawa-based telecom consortium CENGN

One of Canada’s telecom heavyweights has joined a local industry organization aimed at developing the next generation...

SurveyMonkey surpasses 100 employees in Ottawa

Making good on a promise to scale up hiring at its Ottawa office, California-based SurveyMonkey says it...

Ottawa’s Shopify widens reach with eBay sales channel

Digital merchants using Shopify’s popular e-commerce platform in the U.S. will have a new way to reach...

Fulbright donation leads to new entrepreneurship chair at Carleton University

Four visiting academic and research chairs will come to Carleton University, including an entrepreneurship chair at the...

Video: Why are Ottawa’s telecom competitors cooperating on 5G?

In a follow-up to Techopia's feature on the 5G buzz in Ottawa, Ritch Dusome – CENGN's president...
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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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