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Great North Ventures

Early-stage investor and venture studio backing vertical AI and embedded finance startups outside main VC hubs

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Great North Ventures is a venture firm founded by twin brothers Rob and Ryan Weber, who built and sold a mobile advertising company before starting the fund in 2017. It invests early in technology startups that use money sensibly, and it also runs a venture studio that creates companies together with builders.

What Great North Ventures offers

  • Early-stage investment: capital for capital-efficient technology startups.
  • Venture studio: co-creates new companies and builds teams in-house.
  • Vertical AI: backing for industry-specific artificial intelligence that automates real work.
  • Embedded finance: backing for software that builds payments, lending and similar services into workflows.

Clients

The firm favours founders in rising tech cities away from the usual hubs, including the Twin Cities, Chicago, Madison, Fargo, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Toronto. Its partners are former operators.

Key facts

  • Founded: 2017.
  • Founders: Rob and Ryan Weber.
  • Funds: more than one raised, with over fifty investments.

Summary written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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Great North Ventures is ranked on 1 TrustList ranking at #29.

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Venture capital firm · 1 ranking

  • #29of 158
    Ai investors

    Of the top 66 here, 15 also cover seed stage and 14 also cover SaaS; 16 also work in San Francisco and 15 also work in Silicon Valley.

    Behind Nydig, ahead of Tribe Capital.

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