Welcome back to the Great North Ventures newsletter! (Sign up here!) We are excited for the launch of our new podcast and Fund II investing!
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Our new podcast is live! Check out “Execution is King” on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts!
Join me, Josef Siebert, and either Ryan or Rob Weber as we interview founders, investors, and ecosystem builders to uncover insights and best practices for the next generation of global startup founders.
As mentioned in our last newsletter, Fund II is now open for business! We have officially made our first investment outside of our own venture studio projects. Early-stage founders, check out our Founders page for criteria and to get in touch.
Portfolio Updates
Skillit is new to the portfolio! Skillit is a jobs and recruitment platform that matches skills-tested carpenters with great construction firms.
Flywheel has raised a $22M Series C round from 8VC, Great North Ventures, and others. Flywheel will use raised capital to acquired St. Louis-based Radiologics.
TeamGenius raises $1.1 million to expand its athlete development platform
Airbnb partner Migo taps NoiseAware for noise-monitoring solution
PrintWithMe Announces New Platform for Expansion, WithMe, Inc.
FactoryFix Successful Series “Factory Made” Offers Viewers Peak into American Manufacturing
Hotels open the door to the next evolution in room service [2ndKitchen]
Open Positions
See all open positions on the Great North Ventures careers page
Great North Venturesis hiring 6 interns for Summer 2022
Dispatch is hiring for 41 positions
FactoryFixis hiring for 7 positions
TeamGeniusis hiring for 1 position
2ndKitchenis hiring for 5 positions
PrintWithMe ishiring for 13 positions
Parallaxis hiring for 9 positions
Branch is hiring for 14 positions
Inhabitr is hiring for 3 positions
Clinician Nexusis hiring for 1 position
PartySlateis hiring for 1 position
Flywheelis hiring for 2 positions
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April Newsletter
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June Newsletter
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Demystifying Startup HR
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Head of Finance & Fund Administration- Venture Capital Firm (Remote)
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Demystifying Startup HR
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3 Portfolio Companies Make Inc. 5000 + Quicklly & Instacart Expand
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iraLogix closes $22M + Branch expands with Uber
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iraLogix closes $22M Series C
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Flywheel lands Gates Foundation grant
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Venture Capital Analyst
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Orazio Buzza, Founder and CEO of Fooda – on Episode 13, “Execution is King”
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$40M Fund II Raised!
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Eric Martell, Founder of Pear Commerce: Episode 13, Execution is King
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Great North Ventures Raises $40 Million Fund II
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Investment Thesis: Fund II Strategy
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Investment Theme: Community-Driven Applications
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Investment Theme: Digital Transformation Through AI
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Investment Theme: Solving Labor Problems
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Trends in the Gig Economy + Work in the Metaverse
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Portfolio raises $125M + talking fundraising with Branch CEO
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Omnia Fishing closes $4M round, joins Great North portfolio!
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Atif Siddiqi, Founder/CEO of Branch: Episode 11, Execution is King
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Michael Martocci, CEO and Founder of SwagUp: Episode 10, Execution is King
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Yardstik new to portfolio, closes $8M Series A
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First venture studio startup comes out of stealth!
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Insights for founders from a data guru, + FactoryFix raises a Series A!
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Una Fox: Episode 9, Execution is King
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Start With a Mobile App, Not a Website
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2ndKitchen acquired by SoftBank-backed REEF + advice from an early Googler
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Joe Sriver, 4giving: Episode 8, Execution is King
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2ndKitchen Acquired by REEF
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Venture studio startup jobs + advice for founders from founders
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Best Advice from the Great North Annual Event: Episode 7, Execution is King
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Newsletter: Do you fit our investing themes?
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Jonathan Treble, PrintWithMe: Episode 6, Execution is King
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Anna Mason, Revolution: Episode 5, Execution is King
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Mynul Khan, FieldNation: Episode 4, Execution is King
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Nick Moran, New Stack Ventures: Episode 3, Execution is King
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Molly Pyle, Center on Rural Innovation (CORI): Episode 2, Execution is King
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Justin Kaufenberg, Rally Ventures: Execution is King Episode 1
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Newsletter: “Podcast Launched: Execution is King!”
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“Execution is King” – the Great North Ventures Podcast
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Newsletter: Fund II is open for business!
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Unlocking the Potential of Anonymized Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Data
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Fund II is open for Business!
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Mike Schulte Promoted to Venture Partner
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New Name + New Venture Studio
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Great North Launches Startup Studio
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We Don’t Need No [full-time MBA] Education
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How the University of Minnesota is Embracing Startup Culture
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Top Stories of 2020, iraLogix, and LaunchMN Calls for Mentors
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Building Capacity for Innovation
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Seizing Opportunity in a Recession, Allergy Amulet, and Twin Cities Startup Week
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Recessionary times, a record-setting IPO, and Minnesota’s Resilient Startups
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Minnesota's Resilient Startups
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July 4th, Equitable American Dream-ing, and Robots Diagnosing COVID
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Jumpstart, the Startup School, and Branch Wins a Webby!
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COVID-19 Trends, the Great North response, and our Founders Survey
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Giving in the Time of Coronavirus
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COVID-19 Resources for Startups, State-by-State
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COVID-19, the CARES Act, and startups stepping up
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New Business Preservation Act
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Digital Future Boardroom, PartySlate, and The Lean Startup School
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Great North Labs’s Startup Summit 2020
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Great North Labs's Startup Summit 2020
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World Economic Forum, NoiseAware, and the Startup School reboot
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Great North Labs at the World Economic Forum 2020 in Davos
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Top 5 Stories of 2019
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Taking the Founders Pledge, Inhabitr, and gBETA Pitch Night
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Founders Pledge: Support the Organizations that Support You
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BETA Showcase, Greater MN, and Launch MN comes to St. Cloud
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7 Places to Spot Us at Startup Week
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The Greater MN Meetup, Parallax, and Exponential Medicine
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Greater MN at the big show, Neela Mollgaard heads Launch MN, and Misty’s roadtrip.
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Talking VC, tech kids, and Forge North’s Horizon
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June: Great North Labs’s first fund raised!
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May: Innovation Ecosystems, SingularityU Kickoff, and PrintWithMe
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April: Minnebar Recap, ZenLord Pro, and Supporting Entrepreneurs
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MinneBar 14 Recap
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Dispatch and 2ndKitchen claim Tech Madness titles
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Minnesota Innovation Collaborative
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March: Minnebar, Hockey + Hustlers, and Innovation Workshops
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Great North Labs at CES
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Dec.-Jan.: Top Posts from 2018, pepr, Glowe, and Misty Robotics
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Carried Interest: Top Posts from 2018
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Oct.-Nov.: Singularity University, Exponential Tech, and the State of Innovation
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Digital Transformation Summit, July 25th in Minneapolis
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June: Silicon Lakes, FactoryFix, and the Digital Transformation Summit
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Putting the “Silicon” in Silicon Lakes
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Digital Manufacturing and Logistics
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May: Team Genius, IoT, and the Future of Everything
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IoT 3.0
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Healthcare Innovation
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March: Exponential Tech, the “Goldilocks Zone”, and Minnebar 13
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February: Team Expansion, Dispatch, and Startup School Events
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Great North Labs Newsletter – December 2017
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A Letter To My Younger Self
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Great North Labs Newsletter
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Great North Labs Featured on Tech.mn
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Great North Labs Featured in St Cloud Times
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Great North Labs – Featured on BizJournals.com
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