Join us on Tuesday, March 16 for a conversation with Deepak Kamra (BCom/78), General Partner at Canaan Partners, an early-stage, global venture capital firm with over $6 billion under management.

By Mark Holleron - Ottawa Business Journal

A new Canadian space industry startup based in Ottawa has its sights set high after landing its first major contract with the Canadian Space Agency.

By Susan Hickman

Nineteen-year-old criminology student Shalisa Shaw had no idea how much work was involved in starting a business until she enrolled in an introductory entrepreneurship course at Carleton University.

With three other students, she sold nearly $2,500 worth of glass water bottles predominantly targeted at the millennials market. Sandblasted with custom messages, Shaw’s “VESI” bottles pulled in about $1,400 in profits that were donated to the Ottawa Humane Society.

Software programmer Patrick Millward and graphic designer Colin Pritchard were working on their own businesses when they met and realized how well their skills meshed, so they began to build apps together.

Lead To Win, a Carleton-led ecosystem, has been named one of the top 10 academic business incubators in North America by UBI Global.

The announcement was made Tuesday in Toronto at an awards ceremony attended by members of the Lead To Win Council that included founder Tony Bailetti, director of the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program; Steven Muegge of the Sprott School of Business; Emily Byron of the TIM program; Rowland Few from the Lead To Win Sales Desk; and Ludovico Prattico, TIM alumnus and manager of the opportunity review boards.

On November 2 and 3, 2015, UBI Global and Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) co-hosted a benchmarking conference & award ceremony for the 2015 top performing university business incubators in North America. The event was held at Malaparte at TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St W, Toronto, ON M5V 3X5, Canada.

After a successful inaugural year in 2014, Carleton University was pleased to welcome Axis Ottawa’s return this October, giving the local and surrounding startup community an opportunity to put their products in front of the world’s leading international strategic invest