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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Stratford Group works with organizations and their leaders to achieve a higher level of performance and sustain it.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

ThinkRF provides a revolutionary spectrum monitoring platform to improve wireless communications that increasingly underpin our economy.

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Ballard (NASDAQ:BLDP; TSX:BLDP) delivers hydrogen fuel cell power for sustainable transit to help the world move to a net-zero future.

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

ISC (TSX:ISV) collects and protects critical public data and records through registries and related services.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Ross Video powers live video productions for billions of global viewers daily.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

TEC/Vistage accelerates the growth and development of business leaders through continuous education, coaching and peer support.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

ICD promotes the effectiveness of Canadian directors and boards.

CMC-Canada fosters excellence and integrity in the management consulting profession.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

PureFacts was sold to GrowthCurve Capital for a reported $250M. It offers an end-to-end SaaS revenue management platform for wealth and asset management firms like Fidelity, BNY Mellon, and RBC.

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Elentra was sold to Achieve Partners in a very successful exit. The company provides a sophisticated SaaS learning management platform used around the world by medical and health sciences schools.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Invest Ottawa is the leading economic development agency for knowledge-based industries in Ottawa.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The National Research Council-Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) is Canada's premier innovation assistance program for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It is a vital component of the NRC, a cornerstone in Canada's innovation system, regarded world-wide as one of the best programs of its kind.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

CHEO is a world-class pediatric research hospital.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

You.i TV was sold to AT&T WarnerMedia in December of 2020 for a reported $100M USD. Its customers included Sky, WarnerMedia, Twitch, NFL and many more. The SaaS platform provided an artful user interface and sophisticated engine to allow customers' development teams to easily deliver streaming video to TVs, tablets, phones, game consoles, streaming devices and set-top boxes.

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is a world-leading organization supporting ocean discovery and technological innovation. ONC is a not-for-profit society, established in 2007 by the University of Victoria, to govern, manage and develop: the Ocean Networks Canada Observatory (comprised of the VENUS and NEPTUNE Canada networks) as a national research platform; and the ONC Centre for Enterprise and Engagement as a federal centre of excellence for commercialization and research.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The Innovation Centre at Bayview Yards is an Ottawa focal point for entrepreneurs. Working with Invest Ottawa, local universities and colleges and many other partners, the centre provides incubation, acceleration, peer-to-peer networking, subject matter expertise, mentoring, and professional services. Funded by the City of Ottawa and the Province of Ontario, the centre occupies an iconic building formerly used as a public works facility. The board of the Innovation Centre is now merged with the board of Invest Ottawa.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

WiLAN (NASDAQ:WILN; TSX:WIN) licenses patented intellectual property to many of the largest companies in the world. Inventions in the WiLAN portfolio have been licensed by hundreds of companies that manufacture or sell a wide range of communication, consumer electronics and other products including 3G and 4G handsets, Wi-Fi-enabled laptops, Wi-Fi and broadband routers, xDSL infrastructure equipment, cellular base stations and digital television receivers. WiLAN has a large and growing portfolio of issued or pending patents.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

YSB serves youth aged 12 and older. It focuses on youth with difficulties affecting their physical and/or emotional well-being and development. It supports youth in making positive health and lifestyle decisions. YSB provides services in four primary areas: mental health; youth justice; housing and community services; and employment.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

CANARIE designs, delivers, and drives the adoption of digital infrastructure for Canada’s research and education communities. CANARIE manages and evolves the national ultra-high-speed backbone network that enables data-intensive research and big science across Canada. CANARIE also leads the development of software that enables researchers to access research data, tools, and peers. And CANARIE provides cloud-computing services to accelerate the commercialization of new products and services.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

DNA Genotek was sold to OraSure Technologies (NASDAQ:OSUR) for $53M USD. The company supplies 23andMe and others with patented DNA collection products that can be shipped without refrigeration.

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

CMC Microsystems provides semiconductor, MEMS and photonics researchers with industry-calibre design resources, prototyping technologies, test tools and support services. Serving over 3,000 researchers at 43 universities across Canada, CMC delivered over $340 million in products and services over five years. CEO from 2006 to 2007.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Fidus specializes in high speed electronic product development with extensive design experience in end-to-end product development and technology knowledge in System Design, Architecture, Wireless, Signal Integrity, Hardware, PCB layout, FPGA/ASIC, Software and Mechanical Design.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Tundra (TSX:TUN) was sold to IDT, which in turn was sold to Renesas. The company develops specialized chips for the world’s leading communications companies like Ericsson, Nokia, Cisco and Huawei. Tundra had a successful IPO just over three years after it started, and ultimately became a unicorn with a market value of over $1B.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Precarn is funded by the government of Canada to stimulate the Canadian ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) sector by funding projects that bring together researchers who invent new technologies with small companies which commercialize these technologies and larger companies which use these technologies. This unique model has led to increased commercialization of ICT inventions and greater adoption of ICT in Canadian companies.

Ottawa, On Canada

QCH is a community hospital in the west end of Ottawa serving a population of over 400,000. It has consistently delivered world-class healthcare in a fiscally responsible manner.

Ottawa, On Canada

Newbridge Networks (NYSE:NN; TSX:NNC) was sold to Alcatel-Lucent, which in turn was sold to Nokia. The company develops advanced communication equipment which it sells to the leading private network operators and communication service providers worldwide. Newbridge achieved a successful IPO and become a unicorn with more than $10B in market value and over $2B in annual revenues.

Graduate School Of Business

Richard Ivey School Of Business

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

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