Looking for Bootstrapped Startups to Invest $500k to $2M In
Looking for a capital partner to help you accelerate the growth of your startup?
The VC fund I founded is currently investing out of a $41M early-stage fund, looking to write initial checks of $500k to $2M into bootstrapped or lightly funded startups that have achieved $250k or greater of ARR and looking for a partner to help them scale. Primarily focused on B2B software, fintech, and marketplaces.
I started Great North Ventures with my twin brother after having successfully exiting our bootstrapped startup that we grew for 16 years. We have worked with a handful of other bootstrapped/lightly funded startups and had a lot of success the past few years so looking to find others to partner with.
U.S. only.
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Prepping for our first raise now — early AI product aimed at restaurant ops. Curious if your investors responded better to traction or team story?
Shoot me an email at rob at greatnorthventures dot com. Happy to share feedback
It seems like a really good idea, I'm still starting out on my projects and many of them aren't even profitable yet, but I hope to get there one day.
Congratulations on your success to date! Any chance you would consider a boostrapped start up that has validated demand in the US, UK and Australia that is registered in New Zealand? We're planning a SAFE round next month but open about alternative approaches.
Shoot me an email at rob at greatnorthventures dot com. Happy to share feedback
Really great to see a VC fund that focuses on supporting bootstrapped and lightly funded founders — love the philosophy. I’m still in the early stages (building Leivoo — a social app for real-time connections in nightlife/events, ranked top 30 on IH) but definitely will be following your work as I grow. Very inspiring!
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this really inspiring journey! I'm currently building a scalable Airbnb arbitrage model ,where we lease properties long-term and re-rent them short-term on platforms like Airbnb. It's capital-efficient, cash-flow positive, and growing fast.
Would love to explore if this could fit within your investment scope happy to send over a short deck if you're open to it.
We have a handful of investments in the hospitality space. Let's schedule an intro call some time. Shoot me an email to rob at greatnorthventures dot com and we can get a call scheduled.
Hey sounds exciting..I am the co-founder ReelCraft AI. We bootstrapped for $200k and did a revenue of $500k and now looking for seed capital to scale. We are based out of Dallas and would love to chat. Cheers
Let's schedule an intro call some time. Shoot me an email to rob at greatnorthventures dot com and we can get a call scheduled.
Hey, we would like to explore further, you can message me, I can connect with you an angel syndicate who is exploring something like this.
I'm new to IndieHackers. I'm actually not sure how to message on here
You can drop me a mail at codelifehere at gmail dot com
This is an exciting opportunity for some folks (not me yet, lol)! Great North Ventures - where are you based? I was thinking you might be in Canada until I saw the US-only requirement.
We are based in Minnesota and looking for startups based in the U.S.
Cool - definitely respect people doing tech startup things outside the typical hotspots. I’m located in North Idaho (grew up in Michigan) and there’s a small tech community here- hopefully it grows.