Techopia

Techopia is focused on Ottawa’s technology sector. This multimedia project includes regular online news coverage, a video and audio podcast, private networking events and quarterly reports. OBJ also partners with EY to create an annual magazine called Techopia-EY Insights.

Game for adventure: serial entrepreneur Jason Flick loving life after You.i TV

Two years after selling his software company for US$100 million, Jason Flick is reaching for new heights...

Ottawa’s first automated restaurant provides answers to industry’s woes

One local restaurateur is stepping out of the pandemic and into the future with a new restaurant concept that he believes will solve some of the biggest challenges facing the industry.

Greentech startup Invert inks deal aimed at helping preserve Amazon rainforest

Ottawa firm announced Tuesday it’s investing US$1.5 million in two projects aimed at saving about 270,000 acres of the world’s largest rainforest – about 60 million trees – from being cut down.

Lightspeed joins Shopify and others in a round of cost-cutting layoffs

Lightspeed Commerce Inc. is cutting about 300 jobs as part of a reorganization meant to unify a slew of companies it bought in recent years.

Life after Shopify giving Ottawa entrepreneur Jean-Michel Lemieux a ‘second wind’

University of Ottawa grad who built Shopify’s engineering department from a few dozen developers into a global workforce of thousands is relishing his new role as adviser and investor at Denver-based software startup DreamTeam.

Techopia Live: How Corsa is scaling network security

In this episode of Techopia Live, Ottawa Business Journal publisher Michael Curran speaks with Carolyn Raab, the co-founder and chief product officer of Corsa.

Kanata’s Syntronic pulls trigger on third acquisition in last eight months

As layoffs in the tech industry mount amid plummeting valuations and an overall economic slowdown, Syntronic is flipping the script and adding to its footprint in the National Capital Region.

Hoppier eyes 2023 breakout as digital gift-card provider embraces lean business model

Nearly a year after it slashed its headcount to five people from 21 in a last-ditch bid for survival, the Ottawa-based tech venture is back on a “very nice staircase upwards,” in the words of co-founder Cassy Aite.

Canadian firms raised $8.2B in venture capital in 2022, down 42% from 2021: Report

CPE Analytics total is still well above the $7.5 billion Canadian companies secured in 2019 before the pandemic triggered widespread economic uncertainty.

Shopify to ‘delete’ thousands of employee meetings in bid to become more efficient

Ottawa-based company argues time previously devoted to meetings can be better spent serving customers, developing new products and improving its current offerings.
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