$40M Fund II Raised!

May newsletter

Welcome back to the Great North Ventures newsletter! The big news this month is the closing of Fund II!  We have closed our $40M Fund II! Great North is excited to build on its Fund I success investing in startups from Seed to Series A, with a new, larger fund. Fund II Snapshot: Investment Themes: “Digital […]

Jonathan Treble, PrintWithMe: Episode 6, Execution is King

Interview with Jonathan Treble

In this episode, Rob and Josef talk about some Twitter controversy over founder extravagances, and the difference between, say, personal chefs at work used for recruiting, vs. buying a used fishing boat with your profits. This is something we looked into in a piece Rob wrote on BuiltIn, “The Weird and Wonderful Things Midwest Founders […]

Putting the “Silicon” in Silicon Lakes

road sign silicon valley highway

By Pradip Madan, Ryan Weber, and Rob Weber     In the US, several tech ecosystems have become centers of tech innovation in addition to the much-vaunted Silicon Valley. Silicon Alley is in NYC; Austin is known as Silicon Hills; Silicon Mountain includes Boulder, Colorado Springs, Denver and Fort Collins; Silicon Forest is in the […]