By Lisa Thibodeau There is a new cohort of companies emerging from Kanata North’s L-Spark looking to make their mark in Ottawa tech. The SaaS accelerator program helps entrepreneurs launch their busi…
What We’re Geeking Out On
Relevance through reinvention
By Lisa Thibodeau Several years after putting down roots in Kanata North, electronic product developer Fidus is forging into several new markets and looking to further expand its local headcount. The …
Taking drones to new heights
By Lisa Thibodeau A team of Kanata software developers is helping drone pilots fly further than ever before, opening new opportunities ranging from inspecting remote oil pipelines to delivering pizzas…
Small startup, big files: MASV accelerates data transfer technology
Inside the offices of LiveQoS, a small team is working away at a service that could make transferring large files over the internet a whole lot faster.…
AV Institute launched in Kanata
A Kanata-based AV consultant is spearheading the creation of the Canadian Autonomous Vehicles Institute (CAVI) to support and promote Canada’s autonomous vehicle capabilities and ready the country for…
Kanata’s cannabis cluster: Pot producers, security companies and law firms look to dominate emerging market
Among the Legget Drive towers that house a community of established and growing technology companies, one name stands out: Tweed. Though not a tech company in its own right, Tweed and its parent compa…
BlackBerry QNX and L-Spark launch new accelerator
BlackBerry QNX and L-Spark have teamed up to create a startup accelerator targeting early stage companies in emerging technology fields such as Internet of Things, autonomous transport and medical dev…
Profit at the pump: iPocket232’s networking gear to generate new revenues for retailers
In the heart of the Kanata technology park, a small company focused on networking gear for gas stations has been quietly working on a new project – a chip-card reader retrofit for self-serve gas pumps…
To the ocean floor and back: RBR marks 45th anniversary
RBR began in 1973, in the basement of a British engineer’s Glebe home. Founder Richard Brancker launched the business to provide electronics consulting for the government, and what started as a small …
Breaking the monopoly (again): Purecolo the latest independent data centre in Kanata North
By Rosa Saba When Granite Networks first opened in Ottawa in 2011, it was something new on the data centre scene: a carrier-neutral data centre, competing alone against a monopoly – at the time, Primu…