Great North Ventures

Quicklly is an e-commerce platform specializing in South Asian and Indian cuisine, offering a wide range of products including grocery items, tiffins, and fully prepared meals delivered directly to customers' homes. As a comprehensive marketplace, Quicklly connects consumers with local businesses, enhancing their digital presence and facilitating access to ethnic groceries from regions such as India, China, and Spain. The company serves various areas, including Greater Chicago, New York, New Jersey, and San Francisco, making it easier for customers to explore and enjoy diverse culinary options. Through its service offerings, Quicklly aims to meet the growing demand for authentic international foods and convenience in meal preparation.

FactoryFix Inc. is a Chicago-based company established in 2017 that operates a managed marketplace connecting manufacturing companies with a vetted network of skilled workers, including engineers, machinists, and maintenance technicians. The platform facilitates the hiring process by streamlining candidate vetting, generating job listings, and offering salary insights, thereby enabling manufacturers to find and hire skilled labor for both full-time positions and part-time projects. Job seekers can create profiles to match their skills with suitable employers, enhancing their chances of maximizing earning potential.

PartySlate is a marketplace that inspires people planning all types of events and connects them with the leading event professionals, vendors, and venues across the country and the world. People planning all types of events — from weddings and holiday parties to birthday parties and galas — come to PartySlate to find new and unique party ideas, discover the best local vendors and venues, and build their event teams. Event professionals, venues, and vendors use PartySlate to grow their businesses, connect with industry peers, and reach more clients. Companies can share photos and videos from all types of events, get recognized for their work with our unique crediting system, and use their content-rich profiles as portfolio-sharing tools. Since its founding in 2016, over 25,000 of the world’s top venues, planners and vendors have uploaded over 2,000,000 photos of real weddings, corporate events and celebrations to the platform.

Founded in 2018, Inhabitr is an AI driven technology platform to provide end-to-endand furnishing solution from design, procurement, and installation to financing. It has connectivity to a large global ecosystem of over 1,000 factories, warehouses, furniture makers, installers, movers, and financiers to consistently deliver furniture significantly faster, more cost-effectively, and more sustainably than traditional providers. While Inhabitr started its initial focus in B2C with the change of market conditions due to the pandemic, Inhabitr was able to prove greater success with the B2B strategy and achieved product market fit in every segment of commercial real estate.

FactoryFix Inc. is a Chicago-based company established in 2017 that operates a managed marketplace connecting manufacturing companies with a vetted network of skilled workers, including engineers, machinists, and maintenance technicians. The platform facilitates the hiring process by streamlining candidate vetting, generating job listings, and offering salary insights, thereby enabling manufacturers to find and hire skilled labor for both full-time positions and part-time projects. Job seekers can create profiles to match their skills with suitable employers, enhancing their chances of maximizing earning potential.

PrintWithMe is printing made simple. PrintWithMe is the first and largest network of wireless printer kiosks in the United States, with printers in convenient locations like multifamily apartments, coffee shops, co-working spaces and more. Operating in all 50 states, PrintWithMe makes it simple for anyone to print securely and reliably from any digital device, in just a few clicks. Predictive analytics also makes the printer amenity simple for businesses, as all paper and toner management is automated. Since 2014, PrintWithMe users have printed over 20 million pages on sustainably-sourced paper. By encouraging shared community resources, every community with a PrintWithMe printer saves an average of 550 lbs of individual electronic waste per year.