Vertical AI in Action: Inhabitr Partners with IHG Hotels & Resorts
Great North Ventures portfolio company Inhabitr recently announced a major milestone, entering into a strategic vendor partnership with IHG Hotels & Resorts. Under a new Master Goods Agreement, Inhabitr is now an official furniture, fixtures, and equipment (FF&E) vendor for IHG, initially launching across the Mexico, Latin America and Caribbean (MLAC) and Canada regions. This […]
How Two Midwest VCs Have Mastered Success Through Multiple Tech Cycles
by Graeme Thickins For twin brothers Rob and Ryan Weber, founding partners of Great North Ventures in Minnesota, entrepreneurship began in college, just as the Internet was taking off in 1996. As computer science majors (and Rob later switching to entrepreneurial studies), they learned quickly that Internet traffic could be monetized. Over a few years, […]
Post-Pandemic Times – Sand Hill Moves to Middle America
Tech Sector’s Growth has Accelerated It is no secret that during the pandemic, the tech sector is delivering stronger returns than other sectors. As examples, underlying the stock prices, Zoom sessions increased from 10M daily in Dec 2019 to 200M daily in March 2020. Daily broadband usage in the US jumped from 13.2GB in March […]