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Know a Scrappy or Ultra Ambitious Startup? We’re Ready to Invest!
By Rob Weber
/ August 15, 2024
April Newsletter
By Grant Gibson
/ April 30, 2024
Great North Ventures Invests in Mangxo to Revolutionize Credit Terms in Latam’s Construction Sector
By Rob Weber
/ April 9, 2024
WithMe: A Startup Growth Story Fueled by Profits
By Rob Weber
/ March 12, 2024
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Rob Weber
Aug 15, 2024
Know a Scrappy or Ultra Ambitious Startup? We’re Ready to Invest!
Grant Gibson
Jul 31, 2024
Great North Ventures Announces Investment in Coldcart’s $6.5M Seed Round
Ryan Weber
Jul 15, 2024
Great North Ventures Leads OneCarNow! Series A Unlocking $86M In Funding For Improved Gig Worker Financial Well-Being
Grant Gibson
Jul 15, 2024
Micruity Secures $5 Million to Transform Retirement Income Solutions
Ryan Weber
Jun 27, 2024
Pear Commerce Secures $10M in Series A Funding to Transform Shoppable Media & Enhance Retail E-commerce
Rob Weber
Jun 06, 2024
How Long Does It Take for a Startup to Get to a Big Exit?
Grant Gibson
May 25, 2024
VCs and Startups Are Adjusting to the Corrected Market
Rob Weber
May 23, 2024
Let’s Celebrate the Two Year Anniversary of Great North Ventures Fund II
Grant Gibson
Apr 30, 2024
April Newsletter
Rob Weber
Apr 09, 2024
Great North Ventures Invests in Mangxo to Revolutionize Credit Terms in Latam’s Construction Sector
Rob Weber
Mar 12, 2024
WithMe: A Startup Growth Story Fueled by Profits
Rob Weber
Mar 06, 2024
HLRBO Raises $1M Seed Round to Better Assist Landowners in Leasing Their Land to Hunters
Great North Ventures
Jun 29, 2023
June Newsletter
Pradip Madan
Jun 27, 2023
Revolutionizing Medical AI Development: Flywheel Announces $54 Million in Series D Funding led by Novalis LifeSciences & NVentures
Rob Weber
Jun 01, 2023
Grant Gibson Joins The Great North Ventures Team
Rob Weber
May 01, 2023
Demystifying Startup HR
Rob Weber
Apr 26, 2023
Joseph Daher Joins The Great North Ventures Team
Great North Ventures
Mar 29, 2023
Head of Finance & Fund Administration- Venture Capital Firm (Remote)
Great North Ventures
Jan 05, 2023
Demystifying Startup HR
Great North Ventures
Sep 03, 2022
3 Portfolio Companies Make Inc. 5000 + Quicklly & Instacart Expand
Great North Ventures
Sep 02, 2022
Mike Schulte, Principal at Great North Ventures, on Episode 15, “Execution is King” (Part 2)
Great North Ventures
Sep 01, 2022
Mike Schulte, Principal at Great North Ventures, on Episode 14, “Execution is King” (Part 1)
Great North Ventures
Aug 23, 2022
3 Portfolio Companies Ranked on The Inc. 5000 List
Great North Ventures
Aug 04, 2022
iraLogix closes $22M + Branch expands with Uber
Great North Ventures
Aug 01, 2022
iraLogix closes $22M Series C
Great North Ventures
Jul 11, 2022
Flywheel lands Gates Foundation grant
Great North Ventures
Jun 30, 2022
Venture Capital Analyst
Great North Ventures
Jun 23, 2022
Orazio Buzza, Founder and CEO of Fooda – on Episode 13, “Execution is King”
Great North Ventures
Jun 03, 2022
$40M Fund II Raised!
Great North Ventures
May 26, 2022
Eric Martell, Founder of Pear Commerce: Episode 13, Execution is King
Great North Ventures
May 23, 2022
Great North Ventures Raises $40 Million Fund II
Great North Ventures
May 18, 2022
Investment Thesis: Fund II Strategy
Great North Ventures
May 13, 2022
Investment Theme: Community-Driven Applications
Great North Ventures
May 13, 2022
Investment Theme: Digital Transformation Through AI
Great North Ventures
May 13, 2022
Investment Theme: Solving Labor Problems
Great North Ventures
May 02, 2022
Trends in the Gig Economy + Work in the Metaverse
Great North Ventures
Apr 20, 2022
Tipatat Chennavasin, General Manager and Co-Founder of The Venture Reality Fund: Episode 12, Execution is King
Great North Ventures
Apr 04, 2022
Portfolio raises $125M + talking fundraising with Branch CEO
Great North Ventures
Mar 17, 2022
Omnia Fishing closes $4M round, joins Great North portfolio!
Great North Ventures
Mar 09, 2022
Atif Siddiqi, Founder/CEO of Branch: Episode 11, Execution is King
Great North Ventures
Feb 24, 2022
Michael Martocci, CEO and Founder of SwagUp: Episode 10, Execution is King
Great North Ventures
Feb 04, 2022
Yardstik new to portfolio, closes $8M Series A
Great North Ventures
Feb 01, 2022
First venture studio startup comes out of stealth!
Great North Ventures
Jan 31, 2022
Insights for founders from a data guru, + FactoryFix raises a Series A!
Great North Ventures
Jan 26, 2022
Una Fox: Episode 9, Execution is King
Rob Weber
Jan 24, 2022
Start With a Mobile App, Not a Website
Pradip Madan
Jan 13, 2022
The Rise of Rapid Consumer Detection Technologies: A 2022 Outlook
Great North Ventures
Jan 03, 2022
2ndKitchen acquired by SoftBank-backed REEF + advice from an early Googler
Great North Ventures
Dec 29, 2021
Joe Sriver, 4giving: Episode 8, Execution is King
Great North Ventures
Dec 22, 2021
2ndKitchen Acquired by REEF
Great North Ventures
Dec 04, 2021
Venture studio startup jobs + advice for founders from founders
Great North Ventures
Nov 24, 2021
Best Advice from the Great North Annual Event: Episode 7, Execution is King
Great North Ventures
Nov 01, 2021
Newsletter: Do you fit our investing themes?
Great North Ventures
Oct 21, 2021
Jonathan Treble, PrintWithMe: Episode 6, Execution is King
Great North Ventures
Oct 06, 2021
Anna Mason, Revolution: Episode 5, Execution is King
Great North Ventures
Oct 05, 2021
Mynul Khan, FieldNation: Episode 4, Execution is King
Great North Ventures
Oct 05, 2021
Nick Moran, New Stack Ventures: Episode 3, Execution is King
Great North Ventures
Oct 05, 2021
Molly Pyle, Center on Rural Innovation (CORI): Episode 2, Execution is King
Great North Ventures
Oct 05, 2021
Justin Kaufenberg, Rally Ventures: Execution is King Episode 1
Great North Ventures
Oct 05, 2021
Newsletter: “Podcast Launched: Execution is King!”
Great North Ventures
Aug 12, 2021
“Execution is King” – the Great North Ventures Podcast
Great North Ventures
Jul 08, 2021
Newsletter: Fund II is open for business!
Great North Ventures
Jun 30, 2021
Unlocking the Potential of Anonymized Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Data
Great North Ventures
Jun 30, 2021
Fund II is open for Business!
Rob Weber
Jun 29, 2021
Founders or Investors: These are the top 5 signs a startup will succeed
Great North Ventures
Jun 29, 2021
Mike Schulte Promoted to Venture Partner
Great North Ventures
Jun 29, 2021
New Name + New Venture Studio
Great North Ventures
Mar 30, 2021
Great North Launches Startup Studio
Great North Ventures
Mar 02, 2021
How Founders Spend Big Exit $$$, Flywheel, and St. Thomas: Innovation sans Full-Time MBA
Great North Ventures
Feb 09, 2021
We Don’t Need No [full-time MBA] Education
Great North Ventures
Feb 01, 2021
How the University of Minnesota is Embracing Startup Culture, EmpowerU, and MEDA $1M Challenge Winners
Great North Ventures
Jan 19, 2021
How the University of Minnesota is Embracing Startup Culture
Great North Ventures
Jan 04, 2021
Top Stories of 2020, iraLogix, and LaunchMN Calls for Mentors
Great North Ventures
Dec 03, 2020
How to Spot a Worthwhile Consumer App Startup, 2020 Gift Guide, and a New Startup Investment Incentive
Rob Weber
Nov 25, 2020
2020 Minnesota Entrepreneur Gift Buying Guide
Rob Weber
Nov 24, 2020
Startup Investors Can Get 100% Tax Exclusion for Gains Under Section 1202
Great North Ventures
Oct 30, 2020
The Dollars and Hours of Capacity Building, Ethical Entrepreneurship, and Impact Metrics to Date
Great North Ventures
Oct 29, 2020
Building Capacity for Innovation
Pradip Madan
Oct 08, 2020
Post-Pandemic Times – Sand Hill Moves to Middle America
Great North Ventures
Oct 06, 2020
$2M Startup Competition for Black Founders, Winning Startups to Watch, and Twin Cities Startup Week
Great North Ventures
Sep 02, 2020
Seizing Opportunity in a Recession, Allergy Amulet, and Twin Cities Startup Week
Great North Ventures
Aug 04, 2020
Recessionary times, a record-setting IPO, and Minnesota’s Resilient Startups
Rob Weber
Jul 30, 2020
Minnesota's Resilient Startups
Great North Ventures
Jul 08, 2020
July 4th, Equitable American Dream-ing, and Robots Diagnosing COVID
Great North Ventures
Jul 08, 2020
Jumpstart, the Startup School, and Branch Wins a Webby!
Great North Ventures
May 05, 2020
COVID-19 Trends, the Great North response, and our Founders Survey
Great North Ventures
Apr 10, 2020
Giving in the Time of Coronavirus
Great North Ventures
Apr 06, 2020
COVID-19 Resources for Startups, State-by-State
Great North Ventures
Apr 01, 2020
COVID-19, the CARES Act, and startups stepping up
Great North Ventures
Mar 21, 2020
New Business Preservation Act
Great North Ventures
Mar 02, 2020
Digital Future Boardroom, PartySlate, and The Lean Startup School
Great North Ventures
Feb 21, 2020
Great North Labs’s Startup Summit 2020
Great North Ventures
Feb 21, 2020
Great North Labs's Startup Summit 2020
Great North Ventures
Feb 03, 2020
World Economic Forum, NoiseAware, and the Startup School reboot
Pradip Madan
Jan 31, 2020
The Role of VC in Economic Impact: World Economic Forum 2020
Ryan Weber
Jan 22, 2020
Introducing the new Greater Minnesota focused Startup School Initiative
Great North Ventures
Jan 21, 2020
Great North Labs at the World Economic Forum 2020 in Davos
Pradip Madan
Jan 20, 2020
Where to Invest in the Midwest: Venture Across Asset Classes [updated]
Great North Ventures
Dec 19, 2019
Top 5 Stories of 2019, Clinician Nexus, and the gBETA Greater MN St. Cloud pitch night
Great North Ventures
Dec 19, 2019
Top 5 Stories of 2019
Great North Ventures
Nov 27, 2019
Taking the Founders Pledge, Inhabitr, and gBETA Pitch Night
Great North Ventures
Nov 27, 2019
Founders Pledge: Support the Organizations that Support You
Great North Ventures
Nov 01, 2019
BETA Showcase, Greater MN, and Launch MN comes to St. Cloud
Great North Ventures
Oct 09, 2019
7 Places to Spot Us at Startup Week
Great North Ventures
Oct 03, 2019
The Greater MN Meetup, Parallax, and Exponential Medicine
Great North Ventures
Sep 05, 2019
Greater MN at the big show, Neela Mollgaard heads Launch MN, and Misty’s roadtrip.
Great North Ventures
Aug 01, 2019
Talking VC, tech kids, and Forge North’s Horizon
Great North Ventures
Jun 27, 2019
June: Great North Labs’s first fund raised!
Great North Ventures
Jun 25, 2019
Great North Labs Raises $23.7M to Invest in Early-Stage Tech Startups in the Upper Midwest
Great North Ventures
May 31, 2019
May: Innovation Ecosystems, SingularityU Kickoff, and PrintWithMe
Great North Ventures
May 07, 2019
April: Minnebar Recap, ZenLord Pro, and Supporting Entrepreneurs
Great North Ventures
Apr 29, 2019
MinneBar 14 Recap
Great North Ventures
Apr 10, 2019
Dispatch and 2ndKitchen claim Tech Madness titles
Great North Ventures
Apr 04, 2019
Minnesota Innovation Collaborative
Great North Ventures
Apr 03, 2019
March: Minnebar, Hockey + Hustlers, and Innovation Workshops
Great North Ventures
Feb 21, 2019
February: Improving the Culture for Entrepreneurship, 2ndKitchen, and the Prairie Capital Summit
Great North Ventures
Jan 09, 2019
Great North Labs at CES
Great North Ventures
Jan 08, 2019
Dec.-Jan.: Top Posts from 2018, pepr, Glowe, and Misty Robotics
Great North Ventures
Jan 07, 2019
Carried Interest: Top Posts from 2018
Rob Weber
Nov 30, 2018
On Sheryl Sandberg and the Importance of Integrators
Great North Ventures
Nov 10, 2018
Oct.-Nov.: Singularity University, Exponential Tech, and the State of Innovation
Great North Ventures
Nov 05, 2018
Announcement: SingularityU Minneapolis-St. Paul Chapter and Great North Labs present Intro to Exponential Technology & Leadership in Fargo
Great North Ventures
Oct 02, 2018
September: Great North Labs Startup Ecosystem Kickoff Recap, Twin Cities Startup Week
Great North Ventures
Sep 26, 2018
August: Great North Labs Startup Ecosystem Kickoff, ZAPinfo, and the necessity of advice and capital availability
Great North Ventures
Aug 14, 2018
July: Pitchly, ForwardFest, and Where to Invest in the Midwest
Pradip Madan
Jul 27, 2018
Where to Invest in the Midwest: Venture Across Asset Classes
Great North Ventures
Jul 10, 2018
Digital Transformation Summit, July 25th in Minneapolis
Great North Ventures
Jun 29, 2018
June: Silicon Lakes, FactoryFix, and the Digital Transformation Summit
Great North Ventures
Jun 15, 2018
Putting the “Silicon” in Silicon Lakes
Pradip Madan
Jun 04, 2018
Digital Manufacturing and Logistics
Pradip Madan
May 22, 2018
Mid-Market Grocer Growth: Organic, Seeded or Grafted?
Great North Ventures
May 16, 2018
May: Team Genius, IoT, and the Future of Everything
Pradip Madan
May 15, 2018
IoT 3.0
Great North Ventures
Apr 30, 2018
Healthcare Innovation
Great North Ventures
Apr 04, 2018
March: Exponential Tech, the “Goldilocks Zone”, and Minnebar 13
Great North Ventures
Feb 28, 2018
February: Team Expansion, Dispatch, and Startup School Events
Great North Ventures
Dec 13, 2017
Great North Labs Newsletter – December 2017
Rob Weber
Dec 13, 2017
A Letter To My Younger Self
Great North Ventures
Oct 06, 2017
Great North Labs Newsletter
Rob Weber
Sep 28, 2017
The Secret to Fostering a Strong Startup Community Inside Your University
Ryan Weber
May 22, 2017
Great North Labs Featured on Tech.mn
Great North Ventures
May 22, 2017
Great North Labs Featured in St Cloud Times
Great North Ventures
May 22, 2017
Great North Labs – Featured on BizJournals.com
Ryan Weber
May 22, 2017
Great North Labs, Introduction – Ryan Weber