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04.08.2022 | iraLogix closes $22M + Branch expands with Uber | Welcome back to the Great North Ventures newsletter! We have first product shipped, a large funding,... | greatnorth... |
11.07.2022 | Flywheel lands Gates Foundation grant | Welcome back to the Great North Ventures newsletter! We have grant funding news, as well as our mont... | greatnorth... |
03.06.2022 | $40M Fund II Raised! | Welcome back to the Great North Ventures newsletter! The big news this month is the closing of Fund ... | greatnorth... |
04.04.2022 | Portfolio raises $125M + talking fundraising with Branch CEO | Welcome back to the Great North Ventures newsletter! We have a couple of big raises to report, along... | greatnorth... |
30.03.2022 | SPACs are on the chopping block thanks to the SEC’s latest p... | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign ... | fortune.co... |
28.03.2022 | Dispatch, the Leading B2B Last-Mile Delivery Platform, Accel... | BLOOMINGTON, Minn., March 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dispatch, a tech-based B2B last-mile delivery... | globenewsw... |
31.01.2022 | Insights for founders from a data guru, + FactoryFix raises ... | Welcome back to the Great North Ventures newsletter! We have some great funding news, insights for f... | greatnorth... |
03.01.2022 | 2ndKitchen acquired by SoftBank-backed REEF + advice from an... | Welcome to the Great North Ventures newsletter! We have exit news! And for founders, we have a forme... | greatnorth... |
04.12.2021 | Venture studio startup jobs + advice for founders from found... | Welcome back to the Great North Ventures newsletter! This month we have advice for founders featured... | greatnorth... |
01.11.2021 | Newsletter: Do you fit our investing themes? | Welcome back to the Great North Ventures newsletter! (Sign up here!) This month we have some advice ... | greatnorth... |
05.10.2021 | Newsletter: “Podcast Launched: Execution is King!” | Welcome back to the Great North Ventures newsletter! (Sign up here!) We are excited for the launch o... | greatnorth... |
08.07.2021 | Newsletter: Fund II is open for business!
| Welcome back to the Great North Ventures newsletter! (Sign up here!) Summer is in full swing, as is ... | greatnorth... |
29.06.2021 | New Name + New Venture Studio | Welcome to the Great North Ventures newsletter!
Yes, you read that correctly: Great North Ventures.... | greatnorth... |
29.06.2021 | New Name + New Venture Studio | Welcome to the Great North Ventures newsletter!
Yes, you read that correctly: Great North Ventures.... | greatnorth... |
01.02.2021 | How the University of Minnesota is Embracing Startup Culture... | Welcome to our first newsletter of 2021!
In our look back on the past year in our last newsletter, ... | greatnorth... |
01.02.2021 | How the University of Minnesota is Embracing Startup Culture... | Welcome to our first newsletter of 2021!
In our look back on the past year in our last newsletter, ... | greatnorth... |
04.01.2021 | Top Stories of 2020, iraLogix, and LaunchMN Calls for Mentor... | Welcome to our last newsletter of 2020. It’s been a challenging year. We feel fortunate that the loc... | greatnorth... |
03.12.2020 | How to Spot a Worthwhile Consumer App Startup, 2020 Gift Gui... | While there are vaccines on the horizon and a potential further stimulus package, possibly in time f... | greatnorth... |
06.10.2020 | $2M Startup Competition for Black Founders, Winning Startups... | It’s a wrap for Twin Cities Startup Week (TCSW), Minnesota’s largest annual startup event. How big i... | greatnorth... |
02.09.2020 | Seizing Opportunity in a Recession, Allergy Amulet, and Twin... | Last month we wrote about the history of local startups that were formed during a recession and went... | greatnorth... |
04.08.2020 | Recessionary times, a record-setting IPO, and Minnesota’s Re... | Today it was announced that last quarter’s drop in GDP was the second largest ever recorded. Overall... | greatnorth... |
09.07.2020 | Dispatch Raises $11M in Series B | Dispatch, a B2B marketplace for courier services, recently completed its Series B round of funding, ... | hpa.vc/dis... |
08.07.2020 | Jumpstart, the Startup School, and Branch Wins a Webby! | Welcome to the May edition of the Great North Labs newsletter. In this time of economic change, entr... | greatnorth... |
01.07.2020 | On-demand delivery startup Dispatch raises $11M Series B | Dispatch, a local tech company offering an on-demand delivery platform, announced Wednesday that it ... | bizjournal... |
05.05.2020 | COVID-19 Trends, the Great North response, and our Founders ... | Forecasts of the economic impact are still developing as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Mary Meeke... | greatnorth... |
10.04.2020 | Giving in the Time of Coronavirus | With unemployment soaring, small businesses shuttering, and even some large chains withholding rent,... | greatnorth... |
01.04.2020 | COVID-19, the CARES Act, and startups stepping up | The world is in the grip of a pandemic that is testing our health systems, our governments, and our ... | greatnorth... |
19.12.2019 | Top 5 Stories of 2019, Clinician Nexus, and the gBETA Greate... | Welcome back to the Great North Labs newsletter! 2019 has been a big year for us. We invested $5.7M ... | greatnorth... |
27.11.2019 | Taking the Founders Pledge, Inhabitr, and gBETA Pitch Night | Happy Thanksgiving, and welcome back to the Great North Labs newsletter!
This is the perfect time o... | greatnorth... |
27.11.2019 | Taking the Founders Pledge, Inhabitr, and gBETA Pitch Night | Happy Thanksgiving, and welcome back to the Great North Labs newsletter!
This is the perfect time o... | greatnorth... |
01.11.2019 | BETA Showcase, Greater MN, and Launch MN comes to St. Cloud | Twin Cities Startup Week is over! It was a busy week for many of us in the tech and innovation commu... | greatnorth... |
03.10.2019 | The Greater MN Meetup, Parallax, and Exponential Medicine | This year, Greater MN is joining Twin Cities Startup Week in a big way! The premier event of TCSW is... | greatnorth... |
05.09.2019 | Greater MN at the big show, Neela Mollgaard heads Launch MN,... | Summer is coming to an end, but fall is shaping up to be a good time! The ever-growing Twin Cities S... | greatnorth... |
01.08.2019 | Talking VC, tech kids, and Forge North’s Horizon | July is over! This is the moment where summer fun planning always turns a little earnest, when we tr... | greatnorth... |
27.06.2019 | June: Great North Labs’s first fund raised! | Great North Labs has closed its first fund with $23.7M in committed capital! This is one of the larg... | greatnorth... |
27.06.2019 | June: Great North Labs’s first fund raised! | Great North Labs has closed its first fund with $23.7M in committed capital! This is one of the larg... | greatnorth... |
19.06.2019 | Great North Labs Raises $23.7M to Back Midwest Startups | Local venture capital firm Great North Labs announced Wednesday that it has closed its first fund at... | bizjournal... |
31.05.2019 | May: Innovation Ecosystems, SingularityU Kickoff, and PrintW... | At Great North Labs, we work to cultivate the next generation of leading tech companies across the u... | greatnorth... |
10.04.2019 | Dispatch and 2ndKitchen claim Tech Madness titles | Great North Labs portfolio companies Dispatch and 2ndKitchen have claimed titles in American Inno’s ... | greatnorth... |
03.04.2019 | March: Minnebar, Hockey + Hustlers, and Innovation Workshops | Minnebar is almost upon us and this year is going to be great. The annual event will take over Best ... | greatnorth... |
10.11.2018 | Oct.-Nov.: Singularity University, Exponential Tech, and the... | Great North Labs Managing Partner Ryan Weber is now co-ambassador for Singularity University’s chapt... | greatnorth... |
02.10.2018 | September: Great North Labs Startup Ecosystem Kickoff Recap,... | “It doesn’t take a lot of capital with early-stage tech companies to make a big impact.” – Ryan Webe... | greatnorth... |
26.09.2018 | August: Great North Labs Startup Ecosystem Kickoff, ZAPinfo,... | Fostering Midwest success means making guidance and capital available for tech startups
Great North... | greatnorth... |
22.05.2018 | Mid-Market Grocer Growth: Organic, Seeded or Grafted? | Amazon (mkt cap ~$760B) recently paid more for Whole Foods ($13.7B) than the balance sheets of many ... | greatnorth... |
22.05.2018 | Mid-Market Grocer Growth: Organic, Seeded or Grafted? | Amazon (mkt cap ~$760B) recently paid more for Whole Foods ($13.7B) than the balance sheets of many ... | greatnorth... |