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June 5, 2023

Growing Food Year-Round: Carleton Grad Leads Modular Farming Company

Alida Burke, Carleton University alumni and co-founder of Growcer Inc., has developed an economically sustainable solution for addressing year-round food access through modular hydroponic farms. Her company manufactures indoor farms that are built to withstand... More

February 21, 2023

Tackling Global Warming: Entrepreneurs Raise over $10 Million for Innovative Approach to Removing Carbon

Reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and replacing them with renewable sources of clean energy is the most important front in the fight against climate change. This crucial transition will reduce the amount of atmospheric... More

October 12, 2022

Carleton’s Nicol Building Defines Bold Thinking and Entrepreneurial Spirit

On September 21, the Carleton community celebrated the official opening of the Nicol Building, a year late due to the pandemic. The beautiful facility is full of life and bustling with the creative energy of... More

May 25, 2021

Carleton Alumni Launch Angel Investment Group to Fund Women, Non-Binary Founders

A group of Carleton University alumni have teamed up with their Shopify co-workers to found an angel investment group focused on projects from more diverse founders. The group, called Backbone Angels, is made up of... More

April 21, 2021

Carleton University Opens Purpose-Built Innovation Space in Ottawa High-Tech Hub

This fall, Carleton will open a purpose-built innovation space at Kanata North’s Hub350, a brand new ecosystem in Canada’s largest technology park where industry, finance and academic partners will collaborate and connect. For the university,... More

April 19, 2021

Carleton Students Launch Mobile App Fostering Volunteer Opportunities

A group of Carleton students has developed an app that is now available for download in the IOS and Android app stores called iContribute, which connects students with volunteer opportunities. HaoHao Du, a third-year computer... More

August 6, 2020

Social Lubricant: Carleton Graduates’ Brewery Gives Back to the Community

In 2018, amid a deluge of news stories about hate rallies, divisive politics and asylum seekers, Josh McJannett, the co-founder and owner of Ottawa’s Dominion City Brewing, was nagged by a persistent question: What are... More

November 4, 2019

Carleton’s Tony Bailetti Wins Community Entrepreneurship Award

Carleton University’s Tony Bailetti has won the 2019 Contribution to Entrepreneurship Award from TiE Ottawa. The award was handed out during the TiECon Canada 2019 Conference gala dinner on Nov. 1, 2019. TiE Ottawa launched... More

July 12, 2019

Mr. Entrepreneurship

Forty years ago, the morning after Canada Day in July 1979, a young professor arrived on the Carleton University campus for his first day of work. To get his bearings, he walked along the Rideau... More

April 30, 2019

Supporting Women-Led Startups Internationally

When Ottawa’s Sarah Abood tore her anterior cruciate ligament playing intramural university soccer, the former provincial-level club player switched her focus to fitness and became a personal trainer. When one of her clients didn’t want... More

February 6, 2019

Nibbling on Success

Plant-based, celiac, peanut allergic, lacto-ovo vegetarian . . . somewhere along the line, ordering food for a large group became almost comically complex. Ours is an age of dietary limitations, and while providing snacks as... More

October 2, 2018

Boot Camp for Women-Led Startups

One out of every six people on Earth lives in India. Its $2.6 trillion economy is already the world’s sixth largest, and it’s expanding at a 7 per cent annual clip. With a population that’s... More