Techopia

In this episode of Techopia Live, OBJ talks with Syntronic’s senior vice-president, who says Syntonic is having a big impact on Ottawa and its technology sector. 

As 2022 draws to a close, MindBridge says it’s enjoying another banner year as its artificial intelligence platform continues to get better at finding anomalies and accounting errors buried in customers’ financial spreadsheets.

Job search company Indeed says postings on its site for Canadian tech roles have dropped 32 per cent since May and are showing no signs of stabilizing.

The Ottawa tech company is abandoning plans to open an office at The Well complex at King Street West and Spadina Avenue.

David Luxton is quietly confident 2023 will be the year Kwesst Micro Systems graduates from a startup to a mature leader in its field.

"We've had to make some tough decisions...but one of the things that we've hopefully demonstrated to the world is that we're a company that is incredibly resilient," said Shopify president.

The six-year-old company revealed in October it secured US$30 million in scaleup funding from a group of investors led by New Jersey-based private equity firm Edison Partners. 

While venture capital investment in Canadian firms plummeted in 2022 as tech valuations took a widespread hit and economic headwinds mounted, some Ottawa tech companies say that won’t deter them from pushing ahead with plans to secure more growth funding.

Riaz Sidi, president of Ottawa’s Sidi.io, takes OBJ viewers on a trip through SaaS North, chatting with many of the players who make the event such a success.

The government’s Digital Ambition program was announced by the Treasury Board in August with the stated goal, “To enable delivery of government in the digital age for all Canadians.