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Welbi eyes U.S. market as software company lands $6M seed round to fuel expansion

Techopia

Ottawa firm that helps retirement and long-term care homes design recreation programs and other activities for seniors says its revenues have risen 1,800 per cent

Spiderwort lands US$13M in fresh funding to develop ‘life-changing’ tissue-regeneration products for humans

Techopia

Ottawa firm that’s pioneering a process of regrowing spinal cord tissue and other body parts using plant-based materials has attracted big-name investors to boost its

Entrepreneur Mark Sutcliffe vows to bring ‘new leadership’ to city hall as he enters mayoral race

Ottawa

Sutcliffe, a founder and former publisher of OBJ, has deep connections to Ottawa’s business community.

SheBoot selects Braiyt.Ai as its first participant for upcoming cohort

Techopia

With the application process for the third cohort of SheBoot now closed, co-founding partners in the program, Invest Ottawa and Capital Angel Network (CAN), have

‘A big challenge for the grid’: BluWave-ai looks to steer EV users away from peak charging times

Techopia

Ottawa cleantech firm has landed $4.5 million in new funding as it gears up to launch a multimillion-dollar pilot project that will see Ottawa Hydro

Invest Ottawa head encourages more businesses to apply for trucker convoy relief fund

Ottawa

Organization has approved 340 applications and disbursed almost $900,000 over the past month under the Downtown Ottawa Business Relief Fund.

Ottawa businesses hard-hit by trucker convoy ready to snap up government help

Ottawa

Ottawa businesses plan to take advantage of the government support available to help them cover costs incurred during the weeks-long trucker convoy protest last month.

Higher interest rates could dim valuations for VC backed startups in Canada: experts

Canada & World

Venture capital experts say higher interest rates could trim sky-high valuations Canadian startups have grown accustomed to over the last couple of years, but not right away. On Wednesday,

Businesses impacted by occupation to receive new provincial funding, support

Ottawa

Ottawa businesses affected by the weeks-long protests against vaccine mandates will be eligible for grants of up to $5,000 to help recoup their losses, the

$20M federal relief package ‘just the start’ of what’s needed to aid merchants hit by protests, biz group says

Ottawa

Under the initiative announced last weekend, downtown businesses will be eligible for up to $10,000 to cover non-deferrable operational costs not covered by other federal