| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.06.2023 | Baird Capital Invests in Parallax | Baird Capital's Venture Capital team today announced it led a Series B funding round in Parallax, a leading provider of predictive forecasting and capacity planning software for digital services and organizations. Parallax plans to utilize ... |
| 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, as well as our monthly roundup of portfolio company updates and jobs. |
| 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 monthly roundup of portfolio company updates and jobs. |
| 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 II! |
| 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 with updates and job listings from our portfolio. |
| 31.01.2022 | Insights for founders from a data guru, + FactoryFix raises a Series A! | Welcome back to the Great North Ventures newsletter! We have some great funding news, insights for founders and investors from our partners, and a former Yahoo and Disney exec on our podcast, Una Fox! |
| 20.01.2022 | How to build a product advisory council for your startup | David Annis Contributor
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| 03.01.2022 | 2ndKitchen acquired by SoftBank-backed REEF + advice from an early Googler | Welcome to the Great North Ventures newsletter! We have exit news! And for founders, we have a former Googler talking about the importance of being data-driven, and sharing other advice. |
| 15.12.2021 | Parallax Shares “Holy Grail Forecast” and Other Tips for Profitability in 2022 | The most important thing a digital services company can do is get ahead of the changes in resource supply and demand so they can be less reactive and more strategic when it comes to pricing, planning and staffing their work in a way that al... |
| 04.12.2021 | Venture studio startup jobs + advice for founders from founders | Welcome back to the Great North Ventures newsletter! This month we have advice for founders featured in our latest podcast episode. |
| 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. |
| 19.10.2021 | New Parallax Survey Reveals More Than Four in Ten Employees of Digital Services Companies Feel Overwhelmed with Workload | Eighty percent of all digital services companies in North America struggle to grow in a profitable way, and Parallax believes accurate resource planning is a fundamental piece of improving those statistics.
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| 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! |
| 05.10.2021 | Justin Kaufenberg, Rally Ventures: Execution is King Episode 1 | In Episode 1, Rob and Josef kick around bucket list ideas and shattered Vikings dreams, then dive into the interview with the former Co-Founder and CEO of SportsEngine. |
| 19.08.2021 | Professional services company Parallax raises $7M in funding | - |
| 19.08.2021 | Parallax Raises $7M in Series A Funding | Parallax, an Edina, MI-based company focused on managing workloads and workforces in a remote environment, raised $7M in Series A funding.
The round was led by Grotech Ventures with participation from Matchstick Ventures and Rally Ventures.... |
| 19.08.2021 | Daily funding roundup - August 19th, 2021 | Postman raised $225M, MobileCoin secures $66M, One landed $40M; Rapid Robotics picks up $36.7M
Postman: Postman is a San Francisco-based collaboration platform for API development. Postman has raised $225 million in Series D funding led by ... |
| 18.08.2021 | An important takeaway from Maven Clinic’s $1 billion valuation | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| 18.08.2021 | Parallax Secures $7MM in Series A Funding to Help Digital Services Companies Keep Employees Engaged + Accounts Profitable | "Because of Parallax, we have better visibility into the projects coming out of our sales pipeline and how they'll impact talent planning. This helps ensure that—from day one—our teams are working to improve our customers' products and... |
| 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. |
| 04.03.2021 | How Your Organization Can Get Proactive About Market Erosion | The pace of change and competition in today’s business environment is arguably faster than ever before. This situation has occurred, thanks in large part to the adoption of technology across virtually every aspect of business and culture — ... |
| 04.01.2021 | Top Stories of 2020, iraLogix, and LaunchMN Calls for Mentors | Welcome to our last newsletter of 2020. It’s been a challenging year. We feel fortunate that the local early-stage startup scene has remained strong, and believe that investment in innovation and digital transformation will help fuel the po... |
| 03.12.2020 | How to Spot a Worthwhile Consumer App Startup, 2020 Gift Guide, and a New Startup Investment Incentive | While there are vaccines on the horizon and a potential further stimulus package, possibly in time for the holiday season, we still have a ways to go until economic recovery. Startups will be key to that recovery. |
| 06.10.2020 | $2M Startup Competition for Black Founders, Winning Startups to Watch, and Twin Cities Startup Week | It’s a wrap for Twin Cities Startup Week (TCSW), Minnesota’s largest annual startup event. How big is it? In 2019 the event attracted 17,000 people to over 200 sessions. This year, the event stretched nearly a month as it went virtual for t... |
| 02.09.2020 | Seizing Opportunity in a Recession, Allergy Amulet, and Twin Cities Startup Week | Last month we wrote about the history of local startups that were formed during a recession and went on to success, including local unicorn Jamf. The conversation quickly turned to what that means for founders and investors. |
| 04.08.2020 | Recessionary times, a record-setting IPO, and Minnesota’s Resilient Startups | Today it was announced that last quarter’s drop in GDP was the second largest ever recorded. Overall US economic output fell by 9.5%. This dire news comes on the heels of fantastic news for the MN tech startup community: the largest IPO fro... |
| 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, entrepreneurial skills, advancing technology, and its new applications will drive the innovations and evolving business models necessary to spur... |
| 05.05.2020 | COVID-19 Trends, the Great North response, and our Founders Survey | Forecasts of the economic impact are still developing as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Mary Meeker (famed for her annual Internet Trends report) released a report on coronavirus trends as an exclusive to Axios. Takeaways from the trends ... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
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