IP Services
Invest Ottawa’s IP Support and Funding Programs.
Invest Ottawa offers a suite of intellectual property (IP) programs designed to help innovators protect, manage, and maximize the value of their ideas. Through a streamlined access point, you can connect with our IP team and a network of trusted advisors.
In an increasingly competitive global market, a well-defined IP strategy plays an important role in supporting long-term growth and competitiveness. Understanding how to protect your innovations, while identifying potential risks and opportunities, can help inform stronger business and commercialization decisions.
Our team provides insights, tools, and tailored guidance to help you navigate key considerations and make informed decisions throughout your IP journey.
Meet with one of our IP Advisors for 1:1 advisory support. This service includes:
Connect with an IP advisor today. Start by contacting your Client Experience Coordinator.
Our IP team and advisors can:
Funding can support a range of activities depending on the program, including:
Interested? Contact your Client Experience Coordinator or email [email protected].
ElevateIP is designed to support the improvement of IP Knowledge, the development of IP Strategy, and the creation of IP assets for startups in Eastern Ontario.
Invest Ottawa, Launch Lab, and Spark Centre are collaborating with Communitech and ISED to deliver a 3-tiered program:
Get the support and services your business needs to assist in understanding and managing your company’s intellectual property.
Am I eligible to apply?
You can apply if:
Note: eligibility does not require your company to be an Invest Ottawa client.
ElevateIP applications are currently closed. The federal budget signalled the government’s intention to renew and expand support for intellectual property programming, including ElevateIP. Details about future program structure and delivery have not yet been confirmed; please check back for updates or contact [email protected]
Invest Ottawa is an ElevateIP Recipient: a national program of Innovation, Science and Economic Development in Canada leading in intellectual property support for startups in Ontario.
IP Assist helps companies strengthen their IP knowledge and better understand the risks and opportunities connected to their innovations. The program is structured in two steps:
IP Assist is funded by the Government of Canada. To access this program, you must be an existing IRAP (Industrial Research Assistance Program) client with an ITA (Industrial Technology Advisor) assigned.
Run by the province of Ontario, Intellectual Property Ontario (IPON) provides IP education, IP funding and IP support to help Ontario businesses and researchers innovate and grow. IPON is focused on supporting companies operating in specific subsectors (see list here).
Visit IPON’s application page to review current program requirements and eligibility criteria. If you qualify, we strongly encourage you to apply.
Depending on program guidelines, companies may participate in multiple IP funding supports simultaneously.
pulshn.io specializes in designing and building technical innovation—from thrust augmentation to UAVs (advanced hybrid unmanned aerial vehicles)—for the aerospace, marine and logistics sectors.
H2 Analytics is a software solutions company that specializes in scenario-driven training exercises in the defence, security and law enforcement sectors.
Swidget’s technology provides intelligent solutions that empower businesses and individuals to achieve safer, smarter property protection. Its products, which feature an innovative modular wireless platform for monitoring and controlling buildings, have applications for landlords, institutions, building and construction and home automation.
When she launched her mineral supplements company, Lisa Pitel-Killah knew she would need to investigate the laws of trademarks and consider some of the options available to her. “I was definitely going down that road,” says Pitel-Killah, founder of Vykon Inc. “I had filed a couple of trademarks and then I discovered ElevateIP and another government support. We’ve utilized both with great success, and it’s been super helpful for us to be able to get things into play that we wouldn’t have been able to do quite as effectively on our own.”
iCAD Dental Inc. has a goal of providing dental services at a cheaper rate, thereby enabling everyone — including those in developing countries — to access the care they need. Its plan includes being able to fabricate a permanent dental crown in 20 minutes’ time at a cost of $4, using 3D-printed material on an inexpensive 3D desktop printer.
Jiahu Wang’s company — Genvira Biosciences Inc. — specializes in building viral vectors through genetic engineering. These viral vectors are the vehicles that transport therapies to sites of disease in the human body to ultimately treat them.
Yellowbird Diagnostics has built a better mousetrap in molecular medicine. It’s being praised for its potential for earlier detection of cancers, inflammatory disease, and cardiovascular disease, among others.
NovaceneAITM has developed a tool that fine-tunes artificial intelligence (AI) decision-making for organizations, ultimately allowing companies to use their human resources more effectively.
The company has developed a software-as-a-subscription product that not only helps manage water quality, but notifies users that a system is running sub-optimally.
Embedded software in high demand with Crank Software:
Crank Software helps easily develop and embed UI designs. With over 350 clients from startups to Fortune 500 companies, Crank Software has helped launch 500 million UIs. A day in the life of a Software Developer at Crank Software includes becoming an expert on its award-winning platform, Storyboard, and developing interface layers from UI to backend code. Taking home an award as one of Ottawa’s best places to work at the 2018-2019 Employee’s Choice Awards, a career at Crank Software is sure to be fun and rewarding.
DevOps are in high demand with these companies:
Evidence Partners is changing the way researchers work. Its systematic literature review system, DistillerSR, helps deliver reviews up to 60% faster than spreadsheet-based processes. The SaaS company is exploding with growth, outgrowing its last office in just four months and taking home a Best Ottawa Business (BOB) award in 2019. This growth is driving Evidence Partners to look for Fullstack Developers and DevOps Engineers that are passionate about streamlining research in the academic and medical fields. Full benefits from day one and flexible work options are just a few of the perks you get working at Evidence Partners.
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ivuto helps schools go digital. Kivuto Cloud streamlines the management of educational resources such as e–texts and license keys, saving 20K+ schools an average of $50K. Kivuto partnered with educational giant Pearson in 2019 to bring digital education resources to academic institutions. A passion for education paired with skills in .NET Core Web API, AWS, Azure, React, SQL, and other tools and technologies make Kivuto a great place to grow your DevOps or Fullstack Engineering career.
Rewind Backups provides automated backup services, so businesses don’t lose their hard work. The development team at Rewind is made up of four teams of two to three people. Developers implement, test, document, and maintain back-end systems for high-traffic back-up services, delivering quality code and improving the development and deployment processes using AWS. A day at Rewind on the development team could look like anything from supporting Shopify’s new bulk APIs to creating Rewind-Connect; a wrapper for AWS SSM for connecting to Rewind staging and production systems. As the winner of the Ottawa Business Journal’s Employee Choice Award two years in a row, Rewind is an ideal place to work and grow.
Recently securing $10M in financing, Tehama is on the cutting edge of developing tools for the remote workforce. Tehama’s service delivery platform enables organizations to easily onboard, manage and scale a distributed workforce in a secure way. 150 companies are using Tehama. 600,000+ hours of IT services delivered. Zero breaches. Under the leadership of VP Engineering, Jacopo Toccacieli, you’ll be working as part of Tehama’s agile development team and immersed in developing new features for its cloud-based solutions. This will include helping define company-wide API standards, working in React and Angular, and having the ability to work with SQL. You’ll have the option to work remotely or at Tehama’s beautiful offices in the heart of Westboro, steps from some of the best shopping, coffee shops and restaurants in Ottawa.
Mobile developers are in high demand with these companies:
Field Effect monitors cyber threats. Amongst many organizations who trust Field Effort to safeguard their cybersecurity, Canadian Internet Registration Agency (CIRA) teamed up with this scaling Ottawa firm to deploy its new API. Talents with an agile and test-driven approach as well as skills in C/C++, Objective-C, and Java are invaluable in helping build and improve Field Effect’s key security products: Covalence, Cyber Range, and Noble. As one of the top Ottawa employers who scored the highest in the Employee Net Promotor Score Initiative commissioned by Invest Ottawa’s Scale-Up program, Field Effect is appreciated by its employees for its commitments to transparency, trust and openness.
Foko Retail helps retail stores manage tasks. Used by 60+ of the largest names in retail including Nike and Dyson, Foko Retail’s mobile-based task management software is easy to use from operations to visual merchandising. With a growing user base, Foko Retail is looking for mobile developers that are adaptable and passionate about retail and SaaS. While Foko Retail’s culture can be relaxed with office dogs and casual attire, it means business when it comes to its team, customers, and products. A competitive salary and benefits package doesn’t hurt either.
Shoebox enables hearing care around the world. It creates, sells, and supports products that help clinicians identify hearing loss. The maker of Shoebox, Clearwater Clinical, hit a huge milestone in 2018 when they entered a strategic partnership with international hearing device company Sivantos. Shoebox lives by the work hard play hard ethos, and offers an array of benefits, team sports, bean bag chairs, and video games at their Glebe Annex office. If you want to be part of a team that does well by doing good, Shoebox is looking for developers with first-hand experience in AWS hosted solutions.
Full stack developers are in high demand with these companies:
BitHeads builds custom software solutions. With an impressive roster of over 500 projects delivered to Fortune 1000 companies, a career with BitHeads is dynamic with so much room to learn and grow. You could be working on projects ranging from designing an interface for a leading forensic ballistics company to building support for a mobile game with 10 million active users— it’s truly different every day. Whether you are a full stack, server-side, or front-end developer, or prefer to validate developed software, BitHeads is in constant need of skilled resources to build games, apps, and backend support.
Field Effect monitors cyber threats. Amongst many organizations who trust Field Effort to safeguard their cybersecurity, Canadian Internet Registration Agency (CIRA) teamed up with this scaling Ottawa firm to deploy its new API. Talents with an agile and test-driven approach as well as skills in C/C++, Objective-C, and Java are invaluable in helping build and improve Field Effect’s key security products: Covalence, Cyber Range, and Noble. As one of the top Ottawa employers who scored the highest in the Employee Net Promotor Score Initiative commissioned by Invest Ottawa’s Scale-Up program, Field Effect is appreciated by its employees for its commitments to transparency, trust and openness.
Rewind Backups provides automated backup services, so businesses don’t lose their hard work. The development team at Rewind is made up of four teams of two to three people. Developers implement, test, document, and maintain back-end systems for high-traffic back-up services, delivering quality code and improving the development and deployment processes using AWS. A day at Rewind on the development team could look like anything from supporting Shopify’s new bulk APIs to creating Rewind-Connect; a wrapper for AWS SSM for connecting to Rewind staging and production systems. As the winner of the Ottawa Business Journal’s Employee Choice Award two years in a row, Rewind is an ideal place to work and grow.
Recently securing $10M in financing, Tehama is on the cutting edge of developing tools for the remote workforce. Tehama’s service delivery platform enables organizations to easily onboard, manage and scale a distributed workforce in a secure way. 150 companies are using Tehama. 600,000+ hours of IT services delivered. Zero breaches. Under the leadership of VP Engineering, Jacopo Toccacieli, you’ll be working as part of Tehama’s agile development team and immersed in developing new features for its cloud–based solutions. This will include helping define company-wide API standards, working in React and Angular, and having the ability to work with SQL. You’ll have the option to work remotely or at Tehama’s beautiful offices in the heart of Westboro, steps from some of the best shopping, coffee shops and restaurants in Ottawa.
Data scientists utilize their analytical, statistical, and programming skills to collect, analyze, and interpret large data sets. They then use this information to develop data-driven solutions to difficult business challenges. Data scientists commonly have a bachelor’s degree in statistics, math, computer science, or economics. Data scientists have a wide range of technical competencies including: statistics and machine learning, coding languages, databases, machine learning, and reporting technologies.
Companies currently hiring data scientists
Transforming our data-driven world takes talent, and MindBridge is where it’s happening. This is where you’ll take artificial intelligence to enable and inspire humans to do more and be better. Our people, our customers, and our investors agree: No one else is accomplishing what we’re doing with data-driven AI right now. Learn more and Apply.
On the most basic level, software engineers write, debug, maintain, and test software that instructs a computer to accomplish certain tasks, such as saving information, performing calculations, etc. A software engineer will convert what needs to happen into one of many programming languages, the most common of which being Java, C++ and Python.
While many are self taught, most software engineers have obtained an undergraduate or graduate degree in computer science or computer engineering. The career of a software engineer typically follows one of two primary paths: they either progress through greater responsibility and ownership over technical architecture and systems or they progress into managing teams of software engineers and help orchestrate larger projects and help develop and mentor more junior engineers.
Companies currently hiring front-end developers
Tehama is enabling the digital workplace of the future. 150 companies are using Tehama. 600,000+ hours of IT services delivered. Zero breaches. The company’s head office is in the heart of the highly desirable Westboro neighborhood of Ottawa where you have your pick of the best of Ottawa’s cafes, restaurants and shops. Prefer to work from home? Tehama offers remote working options and flexible core hours. Join a team of the best and brightest and enjoy competitive salaries, benefits and a commitment to YOUR long-term success. Learn more and Apply.
Spartan Bioscience aspires to unleash the power of DNA testing for everyone. Like the Spartan warriors of Ancient Greece, our smart, hard-working, and honorable team members get things done. Learn 10 reasons for joining Spartan and apply today.
