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Kwesst Micro Systems, Thales Canada team up on DND contract

Kwesst Micro Systems is joining forces with one of Canada’s largest defence companies on a multimillion-dollar project...

Techopia Live: Inside TrueContext’s $150M acquisition

In this episode of Techopia Live, Talvaro Pombo talks about the decision to sell TrueContext and what comes next with Battery Ventures. Pombo also talks about the challenges of operating a microcap public company.

‘The stars are aligning’: New KNBA executive director Kelly Daize has high hopes for tech park

Kelly Daize, who begins her new role as leader of Canada’s largest tech park on Monday, has been a fixture of Ottawa’s technology scene for decades.

Food Cycle Science raises millions in fresh financing to fast-track ‘table-to-farm’ tech

Founded in 2011, Food Cycle Science sells a portable device about the size of a couple of large crock pots that grinds up food waste such as fruit and vegetable peelings, meat, bones, pits and shells and converts it into a dry, odourless fertilizer containing nitrogen, phosphate and potassium.

Pythian hires veteran U.S. tech leader Borcherding as new chief executive

Ottawa-based big-data analytics and cloud services provider Pythian has hired longtime tech leader Brooks Borcherding as its...

Interim no more: Sonya Shorey named president and CEO of Invest Ottawa

Invest Ottawa has turned to one of its longest-serving executives to lead the organization as it tackles...

Tech ecosystem, talent, venture capital: How does Ottawa stack up?

An interview with Christopher Gillam, vice-president, operations and strategic initiatives, BDC Capital

UPDATE: Shopify shareholders approve exec pay plan, proxy advisers urged rejection

Shopify shareholders have approved the e-commerce giant's compensation plan for executives. Prominent proxy advisers Institutional Shareholder Services and...

Techopia Live: Giatec cracking into concrete industry

Now 14 years into its mission, Giatec has commercialized academic research into a complete suite of solutions for the world’s $800-billion concrete industry.

Cool customers: TerraFixing gets $1.6M to capture CO2 in Canada’s North

Founded in 2020 by chemical engineers Vida Gabriel and Sean Wilson, TerraFixing was recently named one of the top 100 most promising ventures competing in XPRIZE Carbon Removal, a US$100-million, multi-year global competition sponsored by Tesla founder Elon Musk and his foundation.

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