
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 finding its niche in improving at-home care for
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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 finding its niche in improving at-home care for

Solmaz Shahalizadeh’s unexpected journey to Shopify’s doorstep
Before she was leading Shopify’s data science team, before she was working at one of the world’s biggest investment banks and before she was researching

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 national accelerator program. Tehama, a business unit of

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 metal powder with the potential to reduce fuel

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 systems in an attempt to minimize worksite hazards.

Update: BlackBerry to add hundreds of autonomous vehicles jobs, co-op positions in Kanata
The Liberal government is adding $40 million in federal money to a $310.5-million pledge from BlackBerry aimed at supporting the development of self-driving car technologies

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 townsfolk heading for the hills, but an upcoming

Ottawa bets on NCC farm as future precision agriculture hub
Local tech firms, politicians and economic development officials are pushing to turn the Greenbelt Research Farm in south Nepean into an R&D centre for the

Op-ed: Three pieces of advice every startup founder should ignore
When I was running my first startup out of university, I was uncertain of so many things. As a young entrepreneur, I was trying to

Update: Ottawa’s Shopify passes US$1B in annual revenues, looks abroad for next billion
Shopify passed a major milestone – and did so faster than any other SaaS firm before it – in its fourth quarter earnings report on
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