| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.12.2021 | 2ndKitchen Acquired by REEF | Fund I portfolio company 2ndKitchen has been acquired by REEF Technologies, Inc. |
| 09.12.2021 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: India leads as AgroStar, Ola, WayCool & Samhitha score funding | Online farmer marketplace Agrostar scored $70 million while delivery and transport app Ola bagged $139 million as Indian startups led in the agrifoodtech funding stakes this past week. Elsewhere, the US’s Serve Robotics raised $13 million f... |
| 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 for founders as well as an open call for funding applications. |
| 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 of our new podcast and Fund II investing! |
| 24.09.2021 | Lightspeed Commerce : Top Restaurant Management Blogs | When they're not learning from staff, customers and fellow owners, restaurateurs often take cues from food blogs and online resources written by restaurant managers and foodies. Reading list need a refresh? We've put together a list of the ... |
| 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 our Fund II investing. |
| 29.06.2021 | New Name + New Venture Studio | Welcome to the Great North Ventures newsletter!
Yes, you read that correctly: Great North Ventures. We have had some big news come out lately, and the name change to Great North Ventures better reflects our organization. |
| 02.09.2020 | QR Codes Make a Comeback as Restaurants Go Contactless | At the new zero-waste restaurant La Papille Gustative, customers don't even have to see a server to order $18 avocado toast or $15 buckwheat quinoa waffles.
They can order straight from their mobile phone while dining outside.
"We are ... |
| 10.04.2020 | Giving in the Time of Coronavirus | With unemployment soaring, small businesses shuttering, and even some large chains withholding rent, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are reverberating through our communities. Many people wait on relief from the government in the form ... |
| 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 economies. COVID-19, known simply as the coronavirus, has hit 700,000 cases worldwide, with the U.S. now topping the list of countries affec... |
| 02.03.2020 | Digital Future Boardroom, PartySlate, and The Lean Startup School | Welcome back to the Great North Labs newsletter! We are excited to announce that signups for the new, Greater MN-focused startup school initiative are live, and will kick off on March 7th in St. Cloud and March 14th in Red Wing. |
| 03.02.2020 | World Economic Forum, NoiseAware, and the Startup School reboot | Welcome back to the Great North Labs newsletter! 2020 kicked off to a fast start. We were invited to participate in the World Economic Forum, and we announced the next chapter in our Startup School. There’s also a new advisor on the team, a... |
| 19.12.2019 | Top 5 Stories of 2019, Clinician Nexus, and the gBETA Greater MN St. Cloud pitch night | Welcome back to the Great North Labs newsletter! 2019 has been a big year for us. We invested $5.7M in 10 startups, including six in Minnesota, three in Illinois, and one in Wisconsin. That brings our totals to date to $8M in 18 early-stage... |
| 02.12.2019 | Chicago Tech Companies Raised At Least $87M in November | This is our roundup of Chicago tech and startup companies that received venture capital investments during the last month. If we missed one, let us know at info@chicagoinno.com.
To get funding updates in your inbox each day, sign up for the... |
| 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 of year to reflect on what we are thankful for, and for giving back. We are most thankful for our investors, our advisors, and our portfolio c... |
| 15.11.2019 | Food tech startup 2ndKitchen raises $4.35M seed round to enable businesses without a kitchen to serve food from nearby restaurants | Eight years ago, Marc Andreessen penned his famous essay on why software is eating the world. The essay was about how software is permeating every area of our lives, from cars we drive, to automation in homes, and smart devices we use. “We’... |
| 15.11.2019 | 2ndKitchen Completes $4.35M Seed Round |
CHICAGO, IL, 2ndKitchen has raised an additional $3 million, completing its Seed funding round at $4.35 million.
>> Click here for more funding data on 2ndKitchen
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| 14.11.2019 | 2ndKitchen Closes $4.35M Seed Funding Round | 2ndKitchen, a Chicago, IL-based startup for bars, breweries and hotels to provide on-demand food service, raised an additional $3m, completing its seed funding round at $4.35m.
The round was led by Hyde Park Venture Partners with participat... |
| 14.11.2019 | 2ndKitchen Raises $3M to Help Bars and Breweries Provide Food On Demand | A Chicago startup that lets kitchenless establishments like breweries and hotels offer food to their customers raised more funding to close out its seed round.
2ndKitchen announced Thursday that it raised another $3 million, bringing its to... |
| 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 community, with around 300 events to attend and thousands of people to meet. |
| 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 including Greater MN for the first time, as Great North Labs has partnered with BETA to open up the BETA Showcase to Greater MN startups. B... |
| 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 largest debut seed funds ever raised in the Midwest.
“We are very appreciative and humbled by the tremendous support shown for our debut fund by... |
| 31.05.2019 | May: Innovation Ecosystems, SingularityU Kickoff, and PrintWithMe | At Great North Labs, we work to cultivate the next generation of leading tech companies across the upper Midwest. As a venture fund, this means deploying capital, providing startup intelligence, and utilizing our network to support and grow... |
| 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 2019 Tech Madness competition. The annual competition is a tech startup, voting-based version of March Madness. And yes, it’s better than th... |
| 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 Buy’s headquarters for the fourteenth time, on April 27th. As always, it features local tech and startup community members, and an agenda of... |
| 12.02.2019 | 2ndKitchen Raises $1.3M to Bring Food to Kitchenless Bars | 2ndKitchen, a Chicago startup building a platform allowing businesses without kitchens to serve food, raised a seed round of funding to help it grow.
The startup announced Tuesday that it raised $1.35 million in a round led by Hyde Park Ven... |
