Innovation Insights

NBIF Portfolio Spotlight – Kognitiv Spark

Kognitiv Spark, a Fredericton-based NBIF portfolio company, builds secure and reliable augmented reality tools to help businesses overcome complex repairs and maintenance task that would otherwise warrant a senior technician boarding a plane and travelling a great distance to complete any given task...

New Brunswick: a story of innovation

New Brunswick has a long history of global innovation. In fact, most New Brunswickers would be surprised to learn just how many important inventions and ideas started right here at home. Early Human InnovationPerhaps the earliest example of New Brunswick innovation would be the recently identified c...

Navigating Through a Crisis

The COVID-19 crisis has caused tremendous damage to the global economy in general and to many start-up companies in particular. This has hit so quickly that many businesses are reeling, unsure what to do next. I recently spoke to a group of NBIF’s portfolio company CEOs. For some, the crisis is dr...

NBIF Funding Helps Propel NB Research Team into Space

Move over satellites as big as buses that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to construct – there’s a new player in the game. And it’s just a little bigger than a carton of milk. Cube satellites, or CubeSats, are miniature satellites that are cheaper, smaller, smarter and faster to build tha...

Get to know the NBIF team- Meet Raymond Fitzpatrick

Ever heard the saying ‘it takes one to know one’? Although most of us have probably heard our grandmothers muttering it under their breath, the phrase means something slightly different to Ray Fitzpatrick, the NBIF’s Director of Investments and an entrepreneur in his own right as co-owner of D...