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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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NBIF Announces Breakthru 2017 Finalists

NBIF is pleased to announce the 2017 Breakthru finalists, who are competing for over $1,000,000 in cash & in-kind services in the biennial start...
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NBIF Reveals Breakthru 2017 Semi-finalists

Tickets now on sale for the BREAKTHRU LIVE Awards Dinner. We at the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation are excited to reveal the provincial and natio...
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Innovation Voucher Roadshow

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation invites you to attend an information session on our Innovation Voucher Fund. Access up to $80,000 in non-repay...
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Breakthru Boot Camp 2017

ENTREPRENEURS COMPETE FOR OVER $1MILLION PRIZE POT! Breakthru gets underway with a record number of participants Fredericton, NB – The New Brunswi...
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Flixel’s Cinemagraph Gives Supermodel, Tyra Banks, The Esthetic She’s Looking For

Story by:  Rick Spence, Financial Post Imagine a travel poster of an Alberta waterfall, where you can see the current in the water swirl and sparkle;...
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Fiddlehead & McCain Foods Co-create New Technology – Financial Post

By David Shipley, Financial Post David Baxter admits when he and his startup co-founder approached a senior manger at McCain Foods about a possible pa...
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Resson Aerospace Lands $14M Deal To Scale-up

Resson, a fast-growing data-driven agriculture technology company, today announced that McCain Foods Limited is now a strategic partner and is part of...
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