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Innovacorp, New Brunswick Innovation Foundation Partnering to Invest $1 Million in Propel Accelerator

Innovacorp and the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) have earmarked $1 million, $500,000 each, to invest in select companies participating in...
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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 accelera...
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NBIF Announces Breakthru Semi-Finalists, Narrows Field to 10 Competitors

NBIF Announces Breakthru Semi-Finalists, Narrows Field to 10 Competitors The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is excited to announce the semi-final...
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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 veh...
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Sonrai Security Raises $18.5 Million, Launches Cloud Data Control Service

A cybersecurity and cloud data protection startup led by the former co-founder and CEO of Q1 Labs, one of New Brunswick’s best-known startup exit st...
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Sonrai Closes US$18.5M VC Round

Sonrai Security, an enterprise cybersecurity company launched by senior executives from Q1 Labs, has closed a US$18.5 million (C$24.6 million) round o...
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Sonrai Deal Ticks All Boxes for NBIF

Sonrai Deal Ticks All Boxes for NBIF

Raymond Fitzpatrick was positively giddy about the last deal he signed in 2018 – the US$18.5 million ($24.6 million) financing of Fredericton cybers...
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NBIF Closes ‘Emerging Projects’ Funding Round, Supports 18 Ventures Provincewide

A key aspect of the NBIF’s mission is to support research at its earliest stages. Ideas are always the launching pad for innovation, and without ear...
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Newpy Aims To Change Online Gifting

Whenever Erin O’Halloran bought someone a gift online, she couldn’t wait to see their reaction. She’d get so excited, she would send rec...
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NBIF Funding Rose 8.8% in 2017-18

NBIF Funding Rose 8.8% in 2017-18

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation invested $6.2 million in 24 companies in the 12 months to March 31, 2018, with the value of deals increasing 8...
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SomaDetect Reveals Early Adopters

SomaDetect, an AgTech company that launched in Fredericton two years ago, has begun installations of its Version 2 in-line milk monitoring system at C...
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EhEye Sold for $3.2M-Plus in Stock

EhEye, the Saint John company that has developed video recognition software for public security, has been purchased by Patriot One Technologies of Tor...
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