Welcome back to the Great North Ventures newsletter! This month we have advice for founders featured in our latest podcast episode.

In the latest episode of “Execution is King” we feature the best advice for founders, recorded live at our 2021 Annual Event.
What is the Great North Annual Event? Every year, we gather investors, founders, and ecosystem builders together for networking and progress updates.
This year, we captured advice from our stakeholders, people who have proven they can execute.
Listen to the full episode for guidance on:
- Hiring and Firing
- Leadership
- Go to market
…and more.
Two ventures from our venture studio, NextGem and Backhouse Brands, are hiring. If you are interested in getting in early with a high-growth startup opportunity, check out these open positions.
- Backhouse Brands is hiring a Head of Sales based in St.Cloud or Remote.
- NextGem is hiring a Lead Mobile Product Designer and a Lead Software Engineer in Grand Rapids, Minneapolis, or Remote.
Portfolio Updates
Flywheel Partners with Roche and Genentech to Accelerate
Development of Personalized Healthcare Solutions
vWise partners with IRALOGIX to enable rapid deployment of IRA solutions
Outstate MN: Innovation in Central Minnesota [ZenLord Pro]
Hot 25 Startups 2022: NoiseAware
105 Open Positions
See all open positions on the Great North Ventures careers page
Dispatch is hiring for 70 positions
FactoryFix is hiring for 6 positions
Parallax is hiring for 2 positions
Branch is hiring for 16 positions
Inhabitr is hiring for 3 positions
NoiseAware is hiring for 2 positions
PartySlate is hiring for 2 positions
Flywheel is hiring for 1 position
NextGem is hiring for 2 positions
Backhouse Brands is hiring for 1 position

Demystifying Startup HR

3 Portfolio Companies Make Inc. 5000 + Quicklly & Instacart Expand

3 Portfolio Companies Ranked on The Inc. 5000 List

iraLogix closes $22M + Branch expands with Uber

iraLogix closes $22M Series C

Flywheel lands Gates Foundation grant

Venture Capital Analyst

Executive Assistant – Venture Capital Firm

Orazio Buzza, Founder and CEO of Fooda – on Episode 13, “Execution is King”

$40M Fund II Raised!

Eric Martell, Founder of Pear Commerce: Episode 13, Execution is King

Great North Ventures Raises $40 Million Fund II

Investment Thesis: Fund II Strategy

Investment Theme: Community-Driven Applications

Investment Theme: Digital Transformation Through AI

Investment Theme: Solving Labor Problems

Trends in the Gig Economy + Work in the Metaverse

Portfolio raises $125M + talking fundraising with Branch CEO

Omnia Fishing closes $4M round, joins Great North portfolio!

Atif Siddiqi, Founder/CEO of Branch: Episode 11, Execution is King

Michael Martocci, CEO and Founder of SwagUp: Episode 10, Execution is King

Yardstik new to portfolio, closes $8M Series A

First venture studio startup comes out of stealth!

Una Fox: Episode 9, Execution is King

Start With a Mobile App, Not a Website

Joe Sriver, 4giving: Episode 8, Execution is King

2ndKitchen Acquired by REEF

Newsletter: Do you fit our investing themes?

Anna Mason, Revolution: Episode 5, Execution is King

Mynul Khan, FieldNation: Episode 4, Execution is King

Newsletter: “Podcast Launched: Execution is King!”

“Execution is King” – the Great North Ventures Podcast

Newsletter: Fund II is open for business!

Unlocking the Potential of Anonymized Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Data

Fund II is open for Business!

Mike Schulte Promoted to Venture Partner

New Name + New Venture Studio

Great North Launches Startup Studio

We Don’t Need No [full-time MBA] Education

Building Capacity for Innovation

Minnesota's Resilient Startups

Jumpstart, the Startup School, and Branch Wins a Webby!

Giving in the Time of Coronavirus

COVID-19 Resources for Startups, State-by-State

COVID-19, the CARES Act, and startups stepping up

New Business Preservation Act

Great North Labs’s Startup Summit 2020

Great North Labs's Startup Summit 2020

Top 5 Stories of 2019

7 Places to Spot Us at Startup Week

Talking VC, tech kids, and Forge North’s Horizon

June: Great North Labs’s first fund raised!

MinneBar 14 Recap

Dispatch and 2ndKitchen claim Tech Madness titles

Minnesota Innovation Collaborative

Great North Labs at CES

Carried Interest: Top Posts from 2018

Digital Transformation Summit, July 25th in Minneapolis

Putting the “Silicon” in Silicon Lakes

Digital Manufacturing and Logistics

May: Team Genius, IoT, and the Future of Everything

IoT 3.0

Healthcare Innovation

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A Letter To My Younger Self

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Great North Labs Featured on Tech.mn

Great North Labs Featured in St Cloud Times

Great North Labs – Featured on BizJournals.com
