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Ottawa entrepreneur Jeff Clarke honours dad’s fighting spirit

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Twenty years later, CBRE Ottawa is still going strong — and getting stronger

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Infinity Convention Centre dazzles with disco party in support of Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health

Claridge Homes founder Bill Malhotra matches grand total to help raise $102K for mental health cause

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Winners of 2019 Ottawa Philanthropy Awards announced at reception hosted by Foundation WCPD

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National Arts Centre goes for gold, raising $765,000 at 50th Anniversary Gala with Sarah McLachlan

Philanthropists Janice and Earle O’Born make largest gift ever of $10 million to NAC

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Ottawa’s AI scene is evolving. Early momentum was created by companies such as Solink, founded by Mike Matta, which applied computer vision to retail analytics, and Ranovus, led by Hany Mussad, which develops the optical hardware necessary for high-capacity AI data centres. Subsequent growth was driven by firms such as MindBridge, co-founded by Solon Angel and Eli Fathi, and BluWave-ai, led by Devashish Paul, which targeted specific industrial applications in financial auditing and energy grid management.

A new AI player is garnering international attention. Backboard.io is developing a memory-native API designed to manage long-term context in large language models. In January 2026, the company closed a pre-seed funding round led by Mistral Venture Partners, with participation from N49P, Garage Capital, and Developer Capital.

In this episode of Techopia Live, OBJ publisher Michael Curran speaks to Rob Imbeault, the founder and CEO of Backboard.io. Having already co-founded tech unicorn Assent, Imbeault is now in the CEO seat and predicting big things to come.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:56 Introducing Rob Imbeault
14:00 Sponsor Segment
22:27 Building a Better Working World
24:03 Techopia Sponsors
24:43 Closing and What’s Ahead at OBJ

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