
Techopia Live: Matt Whitteker on maintaining Assent Compliance’s rapid growth
While $130-million venture-capital rounds are no doubt exciting for any tech firm, the prospect of scaling a company that rapidly can be daunting. Following Assent
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Techopia Live: Matt Whitteker on maintaining Assent Compliance’s rapid growth
While $130-million venture-capital rounds are no doubt exciting for any tech firm, the prospect of scaling a company that rapidly can be daunting. Following Assent

Entrepreneur Rob Woodbridge riding high as he leads Lyft in Ottawa
San Francisco-based ride-hailing service Lyft has enlisted a big-name local entrepreneur in its drive to challenge Uber for supremacy in the Ottawa market. Rob Woodbridge

Klipfolio ranks as sole Ottawa firm on Deloitte Fast 50
An annual ranking of Canada’s fastest growing companies lists dashboard developer Klipfolio as the only Ottawa entrant. The Deloitte Fast 50 ranks Canadian tech firms

Ottawa’s Calian reports record revenues in fiscal 2018
Calian Group (TSX:CGY) extended its streak of consecutive profitable quarters to 68 and managed to hit record annual revenues at the same time. The Ottawa-based

Shopify surpasses Mitel as Ottawa’s top R&D spender
After years sharing Ottawa’s top two spots on the ranking of Canada’s biggest research and development spenders, Shopify has overtaken Mitel as the capital’s top

Ranovus lands $20M in federal funding to build Ottawa manufacturing facility
A Kanata firm that develops technology that makes it cheaper and more energy-efficient for customers to store data in the cloud has landed $20 million

Norway-based firm taps Ottawa for first North American office
A Norwegian firm designing tech to help aging adults stay active has landed in Ottawa, marking the firm’s first North American footprint. Norway-based Motitech announced

Update: Ottawa’s You.i TV tackling sports media with $US23M funding round
With fresh funding from some high-ranking sports executives, You.i TV is looking to add up to 100 employees to its bench in a play to

Op-ed: Canada’s innovation policy agenda just doesn’t do it
The creation of superclusters is a good first step to advancing Canada’s competitive innovation ranking. And the proposed USMCA trade agreement keeps the door open

Reduced guidance sends shares of Ottawa’s Kinaxis down 16%
Kinaxis (TSX:KXS) executives struck a confident tone during the Ottawa firm’s third quarter conference call on Friday, but a drop in the firm’s full-year guidance
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