The year Ottawa tech became a cash magnet

Ordinarily, this would be a very big deal.  The day after Ottawa’s civic elections, software company Assent Compliance revealed it had raised $130 million from investors to finance future growth — one of this year’s biggest equity investments for a Canadian startup.
This was the third round of funding in just the past three years for the company, reflecting chief executive Andrew Waitman’s drive to create a global specialist in the arcane art of data management softw