NB Funding Up 400%+ in 2018

Any time an economic metric more than quadruples in one year, you have to figure it was a pretty good year. So, 2018 was definitely a good period for funding by New Brunswick startups. Though all the funding from last year has yet to be announced, the deals that are already public amount to about [&...
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NBIF Names Breakthru Semi-Finalists

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced the semi-finalists for its 2019 Breakthru Competition, which will award more than $500,000 in prize money next month. The New Brunswick early-stage venture capital organization holds the competition every second year to find and nurture the next ...
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Innovacorp, NBIF Back Propel with $1M

Innovacorp and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation are putting up a total of $1 million to help companies in Phase 2 of Propel’s Incite accelerator cover the cost of executing their sales strategy. The Nova Scotia and New Brunswick early-stage venture capital groups will each put $500,000 into...
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Kognitiv Spark Works With Northern UAVs

Kognitiv Spark of Fredericton has announced a partnership that will help communities in the Canadian North benefit from the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. The company issued a press release today saying that it had formed an alliance with LOOKNorth, a Centre of Excellence for Commercializ...
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