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Shopify, which now employs 200 at its downtown Ottawa offices and plans to be at 250 by the end of the year, is in the middle of a major expansion thanks to a recent round of investment and a booming market for services that support online retailers.
While Shopify was front and centre at the IBM Ottawa building, home to tech darling Cognos Inc. until IBM’s 2006 acquisition of the firm for $4.5 billion U.S., they aren’t the only local startups hungry for talent.
QNX Software Systems Inc., a division of BlackBerry, is also hiring, as is SavvyDox. Fuel Industries, Magmic Inc. and Playbrains are collectively looking to add as many as 200 new employees by the end of 2013.
According to Bruce Lazenby, chief executive of Invest Ottawa, it’s not just startups that are now looking to hire.
“When we are talking to most of the large companies in town they all tell us that they have plans to grow this year,” said Lazenby, while confirming that he believes Ottawa is now in the early stages of a technology industry resurgence. “This talent won’t leave Ottawa. Good companies will make room for good talent.”
Lazenby also said, Invest Ottawa has reached out to IBM in hopes of helping laid off employees with entrepreneurial aspirations start a business.
More proof the market is rebound came in Statistics Canada’s job numbers, released Friday, which show Ottawa has added 9,500 new jobs in the technology sector since December, for a total of 49,700.
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While Shopify was front and centre at the IBM Ottawa building, home to tech darling Cognos Inc. until IBM’s 2006 acquisition of the firm for $4.5 billion U.S., they aren’t the only local startups hungry for talent.
QNX Software Systems Inc., a division of BlackBerry, is also hiring, as is SavvyDox. Fuel Industries, Magmic Inc. and Playbrains are collectively looking to add as many as 200 new employees by the end of 2013.
According to Bruce Lazenby, chief executive of Invest Ottawa, it’s not just startups that are now looking to hire.
“When we are talking to most of the large companies in town they all tell us that they have plans to grow this year,” said Lazenby, while confirming that he believes Ottawa is now in the early stages of a technology industry resurgence. “This talent won’t leave Ottawa. Good companies will make room for good talent.”
Lazenby also said, Invest Ottawa has reached out to IBM in hopes of helping laid off employees with entrepreneurial aspirations start a business.
More proof the market is rebound came in Statistics Canada’s job numbers, released Friday, which show Ottawa has added 9,500 new jobs in the technology sector since December, for a total of 49,700.
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Read more at ottawacitizen.com
