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NBIF Portfolio Company Lands 5-Year Deal With Province

(Photo:  John Bowles, CEO of Inversa Systems) The provincial government has signed a contract with a Fredericton engineering company that is changing...
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NBIF & 500 Startups Strike Partnership

June 6, 2017 –  The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and 500 Startups Canada have entered into a partnership to help seed and scale up more worl...
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UNB’s Dr. Mohsen Mohammadi Will Head The New MAMCE

Via Daily Gleaner – Stephen Llewellyn Officials say a new $5-million research centre announced at Fredericton’s University of New Brunswic...
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NBIF’s Innovation Voucher Helps 23 Companies Innovate

Innovation Voucher Fund provides over $1 million in support to small and medium-sized businesses Premier Brian Gallant joined the New Brunswick Innova...
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NB Government Announces $160 Million in Innovation Funding

The provincial government is renewing its commitment to innovation and research by investing $63.6 million in the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation ...
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Innovation Voucher Roadshow – Part 2

Innovation is key – and free! We’ll provide your business with up to $80,000 in non-repayable funding to innovate a new process, product o...
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Meet the Breakthru 2017 Winners – Pfera

Lisa Pfister loves horses. She’s even breeding her mare, who is expected to foal sometime this Spring. Sometime. “The gestation period for a horse...
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Meet the Breakthru 2017 Winners – Newpy

It was in her third year of studies at the University of Prince Edward Island that Erin O’Halloran knew she wanted to start a business. “I started...
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Meet the Breakthru 2017 Winners – SomaDetect

Bethany Deshpande says the light-bulb moment behind her Fredericton-based agro-tech start-up happened by accident. Her father, an inventor, was workin...
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Meet the Breakthru 2017 Winners – WEnTech Solutions

In 2015 a friend approached Amir Akbari with a challenge. “He needed help with a client – a municipal waste site, with 25 years of garbage,” exp...
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New Brunswick – The Big Winner in Breakthru

March 23, 2017 Fredericton, NB: The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) is pleased to announce the 2017 winners of Breakthru, their biennial st...
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CBC Viewer’s Choice – Breakthru 2017

Our Breakthru provincial finalists were each featured on CBC New Brunswick news through the week of March 13th – 17th, 2017. Viewer’s ha...
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