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New Brunswick Innovation Foundation
Venture capital · Fredericton, NB, Canada · North America
NBIF is a publicly funded venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups in New Brunswick. It provides capital, strategic guidance, and connections to founders, and also runs programs such as the Innovation Voucher Fund and the Breakthru pitch competition.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
In its own wordstechnologyearly-stagenew brunswickcanadacleantechcybersecurity
Your fit with New Brunswick Innovation Foundation
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Or find every investor that fitsNew Brunswick Innovation Foundation lists 4 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 4 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (33%), Cybersecurity (17%) and Enterprise Software (17%). 75% of its companies are based in Canada. It invests most often alongside Creative Destruction Lab, Blue Bear Capital and BlueWing Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 25% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 25% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 0 |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Creative Destruction Lab | 2 |
| Blue Bear Capital | 1 |
| BlueWing Ventures | 1 |
| Elemental Impact | 1 |
| Koan Capital | 1 |
| Propeller | 1 |
| SDH Capital | 1 |
| Spring | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers4100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 33% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 17% | 4% |
| Enterprise Software | 17% | 8% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 17% | 15% |
| Climate & Energy | 17% | 1% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Creative Destruction Lab
Compare New Brunswick Innovation Foundation head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Funds
as stated on its siteRecent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with New Brunswick Innovation Foundation| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Jul 2026 | Pre-Seed | |
| 15 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 27 May 2026 | Series A | |
| 6 Feb 2026 | Seed |
Round details for New Brunswick Innovation Foundation
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in New Brunswick Innovation Foundation's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
4 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elle, MD is a biotechnology company developing a novel, once-monthly, non-hormonal contraceptive called the Copper Ring | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| Lastwall Networks provides high-assurance identity and access management solutions for secure environments. | CybersecurityEnterprise Software | May 2026Series A | Funding round | |
| The company accelerates natural processes to mitigate climate change by capturing CO₂ and storing it in the ocean | Climate & Energy | Feb 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Picketa Systems provides real-time crop tissue testing and nutrient analysis for farmers and agronomists | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- nbif.ca
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 6 Feb 2026
- Companies checked
- 4
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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