Ingenia Communications Corporation

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Ingenia Communications Corporation is the name of a Canadian internet technology company that was dissolved in 2001. The company was incubated at Carleton University in Ottawa and produced many notables in the industry including software developer Mike Shaver who went on to become a strategist with the Mozilla Corporation.

Ingenia became known on the world stage for supporting the development of Canada's SchoolNet and received a number of awards. In the early dot-com days Ingenia had a fairly high profile at conferences and worked on marquee projects for the Canadian federal government and other organizations. President Karen Kostaszek received awards including the 1995 Caldwell Partners Top 40 Under 40 Award.

In the mid 1990s Ingenia's faced leadership and strategic challenges leading to some exits by key personnel. In 1997 Ingenia ran into serious financial difficulties and the company narrowly avoided bankruptcy in being acquired by Stittsville-based Software Kinetics for $100 and the assumption of $500,000 of debt. Software Kinetics was then taken over by Xwave Solutions which in turn was acquired by Aliant.

Other notables from the former Ingenia include Keenan Wellar who represented the company at INET '97 and Neil Fraser who founded Digital Routes in Scotland.