| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.01.2022 | The future of funding: Why more firms are writing checks to Black women | 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.
When Arian Simone was trying to open her own retail store, it didn’t take long for her to notice ... |
| 18.01.2022 | Leading Swedish Social Robotics Company, Furhat Robotics, Acquires the US-Based Misty Robotics Business Assets to Accelerate the Next Generation of Human Interfaces | Jessel Thomas, Tech Times 18 January 2022, 03:01 pm
Furhat Robotics (www.furhatrobotics.com), the Swedish company behind the world's most advanced social robot, 'Furhat' - used in a variety of advanced academic research and business applica... |
| 15.01.2021 | The best COVID tech of CES 2021: Smart masks and sanitizers | As a COVID-19 vaccination slowly rolls out across the country, the end of a nearly yearlong pandemic may be inching closer, but there’s still work to be done to protect everyone, from frontline health care works to those of us working from ... |
| 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... |
| 30.01.2020 | Boulder’s Misty Robotics has made it easier to turn its robots into front-desk workers | It can’t clean a bathroom or turn down a king-sized bed. It doesn’t have the gripping hands — or the size, for the matter — necessary for such tasks.
With proper finishing work by a developer and some software integration, however, it’s pos... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 05.09.2019 | Greater MN at the big show, Neela Mollgaard heads Launch MN, and Misty’s roadtrip. | Summer is coming to an end, but fall is shaping up to be a good time! The ever-growing Twin Cities Startup Week is October 9-16th this year, and the schedule is currently being finalized. |
| 04.09.2019 | Misty II begins shipping to crowdfunding backers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In June 2017, shortly after Misty Robotics spun out of Boulder, Colorado-based startup Sphero, it announced intentions to develop a “ma... |
| 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 try to store up every last bit of Vitamin D and fish protein we can to last the upcoming season-which-shall-not-be-named. There’s still fun to... |
| 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... |
| 25.05.2019 | Meet Misty, an extensible robot empowered by Microsoft and Qualcomm technologies | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Miscellaneous helper robots have been whirring, r... |
| 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... |
| 30.11.2018 | Occipital Reaches Turning Point with New 3D Sensor for Drones, VR | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Occipital, the San Francisco-based spatial computing startup, first planted its flag in computer vision tech five years ago when it released a plug-in sensor, billed as the fi... |
| 21.11.2018 | Colorado Inno's 2018 Startup Gift Guide | The gift giving season is here and everyone you know wants something different.
One person wants an electric scooter, the other wants a GoPro and drone, and the adults want a wireless speaker with some virtual assistant like Alexa they can ... |
| 31.08.2018 | Misty Robotics CEO Tim Enwall: Everyone will have a home robot in 10-20 years | In June 2017, when Misty Robotics spun out of Colorado-based startup Sphero — the folks behind the eponymous Sphero toy series, a motorized R2-D2, and a miniature replica of Lightning McQueen from Disney’s Cars franchise — it announced inte... |
| 31.08.2018 | Misty Robotics CEO Tim Enwall: Everyone will have a home robot in 10-20 years | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In June 2017, when Misty Robotics spun out of Colorado-based startup Sphero — the folks behind the eponymous Sphero toy series, a motor... |
| 29.07.2018 | When a big company enters your startup’s space, it’s a good thing | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
“Hey little startup, aren’t you quaking in your b... |
| 29.07.2018 | When a big company enters your startup’s space, it’s a good thing | “Hey little startup, aren’t you quaking in your boots at this recent big-company announcement?”
As the CEO of a robot startup (and, in the past, a smart home/energy startup), I’ve heard words to that effect whenever news breaks about this o... |
| 02.05.2018 | Sphero spin-off Misty Robotics unveils 2nd-gen robot for developers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Misty Robotics, a spin-off of BB-8 toy creator Sphero, today unveiled the second generation of its robot, called Misty II. The company ... |
| 02.05.2018 | Sphero spin-off Misty Robotics unveils 2nd-gen robot for developers | Misty Robotics, a spin-off of BB-8 toy creator Sphero, today unveiled the second generation of its robot, called Misty II. The company also announced that it was making 1,500 Misty II units available for preorder over the next 30 days. The ... |
| 02.05.2018 | Misty is crowfunding its personal robot | Misty Robotics has been talking a good game for 10 months now. Back in June, the Colorado-based Sphero spin-off announced its plans to develop a mainstream home robot. At CES in January, it introduced the world to the Misty I, a skeletal ro... |
| 10.01.2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, January 10 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
Before he was a partner at Venrock, David Pakman spent 12 years as an Internet entrepreneur. He was co-founder of Apple Music Group, co-founder of MyPlay (creator of the digital music locker), CEO of eMusic (a digital ... |
| 10.01.2018 | Why This Venture Capitalist Wants Crypto to Disrupt His Business | This article originally ran in Term Sheet, Fortune’s newsletter about deals and dealmakers. Sign up here.
Before he was a partner at Venrock, David Pakman spent 12 years as an Internet entrepreneur. He was co-founder of Apple Music Group, c... |
| 06.07.2017 | Colorado in June: startups raised $64.5 million, ViaWest bought for $1.7 billion | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The weather is heating up and so is Colorado tech... |
| 06.07.2017 | Colorado in June: startups raised $64.5 million, ViaWest bought for $1.7 billion | The weather is heating up and so is Colorado tech funding. After a bit of fundraising slump in May, June numbers came in at more than double last month’s totals. In June, we saw over $64.5 million in fundraising for tech companies, with nea... |
| 21.06.2017 | Misty Robotics Raises $11.5M Series A from Venrock | BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sphero, Inc., maker of the acclaimed connected play robot Sphero, announced today that it has successfully completed the spin-off of its advanced robotics division into the newly created Misty Robotics, Inc.... |
| 20.06.2017 | Sphero spinoff Misty Robotics gets $11.5 million to create a mainstream robot for the home | Hardware startup Misty Robotics has a daunting task ahead of it. The Boulder-based company is working on a robot aimed at mainstream consumers for employment in the home and office. But Misty certainly has a solid foundation, as a spinoff o... |
| 20.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, June 20 | “I GOT A FEELING I’M OFF SCRIPT”
NEW MONEY + NEW PRODUCT: Managed by Q, a New York City-based on-demand office services startup, has launched a marketplace for its office management products, offering self-service cleaning, plumbing, electr... |
| 20.06.2017 | Misty Robotics Receives $11.5M |
BOULDER, CO, Misty Robotics, a Sphero spin-off that's focused on building personal robots for the home and office, has secured $11.5 million in Series A funding.
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| 20.06.2017 | Misty Robotics Receives $11.5m in Series A funding | Misty Robotics, Inc., a Boulder, Colo.-based company which will build personal robots for the home and office, received $11.5m in Series A funding.
Backers included Venrock, Foundry Group and others.
The new company will use its new capital... |
