Great to be at the launch of AccelerateOTT with Invest Ottawa today. Big thanks to Sonya Shorey, Nick Quain, and the team for supporting local founders and helping businesses grow right here in Ottawa. Companies like Fellow, Rewind, Compose Health, Pluvo, and Backboard.io show what’s possible here in AI, telecom, defence, and health innovation. Ottawa is a place where you can start, scale, and succeed and that should give us all confidence in our future. Très heureux d’avoir participé aujourd’hui au lancement d’AccelerateOTT avec Invest Ottawa. Un grand merci à Sonya Shorey, à Nick Quain et à toute l’équipe pour leur travail exceptionnel afin de soutenir les entrepreneurs d’ici et d’aider les entreprises à croître à Ottawa. Des entreprises comme Fellow, Rewind, Compose Health, Pluvo et Backboard.io illustrent bien ce qui est possible ici dans des secteurs comme l’IA, les télécommunications, la défense et l’innovation en santé. Ottawa est une ville où l’on peut lancer une entreprise, la faire croître et réussir. Et cela devrait nous donner à tous confiance en notre avenir.

Through Pearson LIFT, @TorontoPearson is transforming Canada’s busiest airport into a proving ground for local Canadian startups to co-create digital and AI systems. betakit.com/how-toronto-pear…

Two former @awscloud leaders (Ath Caramanolis and @mariohsouto) have brought a new startup out of stealth to tackle one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks: power. Vancouver’s Soma Energy has raised $7 million to help data centres optimize electricity use. betakit.com/ex-aws-leaders-b…

Years after retreating from the sector, @bdc_ca is back in life sciences with a new $150-million fund. The bank will target seed- and Series A-stage companies, marking a return to a sector it said it left too early. Who will manage the fund? Read on: betakit.com/bdc-launches-150…

Big changes to SR&ED are a game-changer for Canadian manufacturing tech. With capex now eligible and the credit limit doubled to $6M, @BoastCapital helps you claim every dollar you're owed while saving you up to 60 hours of prep betakit.com/how-new-sred-cha…

After five years with @Startup_TNT, Jesse Wiebe is moving on to a what he calls a larger role, which he says will be similar, but national in scope, and allow him to accomplish bigger goals. The official announcement is expected in a few weeks. betakit.com/jesse-wiebe-buil…

CoolIT’s employees to get massive cash payouts with $4.75-billion sale to Ecolab theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…

Janet Bannister bucks tough venture-capital trend, raising $50-million for early-stage fund theglobeandmail.com/business…

Canada’s innovators don’t lack ambition. They lack capital. Over the past few months I’ve had dozens of conversations with founders across Canada. A quiet anxiety keeps surfacing. It isn’t about talent. It isn’t about ideas. It isn’t about work ethic. It’s about capital formation

🍁Let’s get Canada’s emerging founders on the 🏆Capital MASHUP26 Pitchfest Stage 📆 20-21 May 📍TCC Canada - 150 Elgin Ottawa Applications open with special perks for early applicants. Designed for tech startup raising pre-seed in the next year 🙏 Community Partners

Lawyers for the Spice Girls threaten to sue Canadian entrepreneur over seasoning brand ctvnews.ca/canada/article/la…

We’re excited to share that Ewan will be speaking at the BHER Executive Summit 2026, sharing Mission Control’s perspective on the future of Canada’s space sector and emerging opportunities in the space economy.

Does Georgian have its groove back? VC firm touts recent momentum to LPs as it aims to raise US$1-billion. Globe & Mail exclusive look at Canada’s largest independent VC firm and how it has regained its footing after a tough post pandemic bubble period. theglobeandmail.com/business…

What do @TechTuesOttawa and 🇨🇦Women founders have in common? They’re joining @CapitalAngels #SheBoot and @LSPARKGlobal in Kanata 3 March celebrating International Women’s month Applications for tech / tech enabled women led startups to pitch are open until 23 January

Taking in the festive lights in downtown Ottawa. Today is definitely the calm before the storm. Enjoy a mix of sun & cloud, then ⬆️ cloud. High -9°. Freezing rain begins ~9pm and lasts until ~midday Mon. May mix with ice pellets. Temps may briefly rise above 0° before ⬇️ Mon pm.

The Business Development (BD) Forum at the OBIO® Investment Summit is designed to connect Canada’s biotech, medtech & healthtech companies with licensing and BD professionals from multinational corporations to explore partnerships and licensing opportunities.

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What you are actually doing here is to bribe nokia to put these jobs into Canada by paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per job from taxpayer money. What this does is to lower the cost basis of nokia per employee. This has been going on for decades, called FDI which all civil servants think is a good thing. I spent a lot of time explaining to civil servants in ottawa that its not good for our economy that American and Oversees branch offices can employ Canadians at half the cost to all the canadian companies around them due to these subsidies. We should not do them at all, they are toxic, at least in the tech sector. It's never meat to be this way, but the situation that very often arises is: It's strictly worse inside of Canada to be a Canadian company compared to a company headquartered everywhere else. This is a bad situation, because the fruits of the subsidized labor will accrue to the wealth of other countries and not Canada. It's tax payer money invested into locking up scarce high tech talent in jobs where they no longer contribute to the Canadian economy directly. Why

EAIS25 was one for the books 🤝🔥 2 days. Hundreds of founders, angels, policymakers & innovators. Ideas that challenged us and connections that will shape what’s next. Missed it? Here’s a taste 🎥

Thank you @bluejays for an unforgettable season. You made Canada proud right to the very end. 🇨🇦💙