Software
Software Companies in Ottawa
From multinational giants to homegrown successes, Ottawa is a centre of business growth within the domestic and global economy. It is an ideal location for innovation, entrepreneurship, business expansion and commercial success.
Examples of Ottawa Software Brilliance
These companies are taking advantage of Ottawa's world-class environment for leading-edge products, technologies and innovations.
BlackBerry QNX
BlackBerry QNX, a leading supplier of safe, secure, and trusted operating systems, development tools, and professional services for connected embedded systems. Global leaders such as Ford, Audi, Cisco, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, and Siemens depend on BlackBerry QNX technologies for their next generation of secure vehicle software platforms, network routers, medical devices, industrial automation systems, security and defence systems, and other mission and/or life-critical applications. This includes full software lifecycle management via secure over the air software updates. Founded in 1980, BlackBerry QNX is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, with its products distributed in over 100 countries worldwide. In order to harness Ottawa’s R&D expertise, Blackberry’s QNX established its Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Centre (AVIC) locally.
Shopify
Started as a platform to sell snowboards, Shopify has emerged as one of the most exciting global players in the SaaS space, with its cloud based e-commerce platform. The growth of Shopify has kicked off a revolution in online retail, disrupting conventional bricks and mortar, and redefining the online store – making it possible for anyone to launch in a single day! Currently Shopify serves in excess of 377,500 businesses in about 150 countries, and is one of Canada’s top R&D spenders.
Momentive
Adopting the parent company name Momentive in 2021, SurveyMonkey launched its presence in Ottawa in 2014 with the acquisition of the highly successful startup FluidSurveys. Since that time, the company has grown its Ottawa engineering and development team, building out is famous solutions in experience management, including brand-market insights, product and employee journeys and online survey development.
