# Robert Weber

> Robert Weber is a seed investor at Great North Ventures (Minneapolis) backing Software and SaaS. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Great North Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/great-north-labs)
- Location: Minneapolis, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/robertjweber
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/robertjweber
- Website: https://x.com/robertjweber
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robert.weber.98434

Robert Weber is a seed investor at Great North Ventures in Minneapolis focused on Software and SaaS. Robert Weber joined Great North Ventures as Co-Founder & Managing Partner in 2017.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 50% |
| SaaS | 3 | 38% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 25% |
| TV | 1 | 13% |
| Audio | 1 | 13% |

24 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| HLRBO | HLRBO is an online hunting network that connects landowners and hunters. List your property on HLRBO. No fees. No commissions. Hunters contact you directly with questions or to lease. | $1M | Seed | Feb 20, 2024 |  |
| TeamGenius | TeamGenius, an athlete evaluation and player development company, is changing the way sports clubs and leagues run tryouts, camps, player feedback and development programs by replacing the archaic paper and spreadsheet methods with a cloud based web and mobile solution. This saves coaches and administrators dozens of hours of busy work, reduceserrors and bias, aids in proper team formation, and gives them a competitive advantage through player development and feedback. | $1.1M | Seed | Aug 10, 2021 |  |
| Dispatch | Dispatch is a technology that enables businesses to order a courier directly from the driver - bypassing traditional expenses that minimize company profits and reduce driver pay. The company targets companies that need to deliver products like auto parts, construction materials, paint, and HVAC components to customer sites. Dispatch’s tech letssuppliers orchestrate deliveries without owning a fleet of vehicles or employing drivers.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota. | $11.2M | Series B | Jul 02, 2020 |  |
| Dispatch | Dispatch is a technology that enables businesses to order a courier directly from the driver - bypassing traditional expenses that minimize company profits and reduce driver pay. The company targets companies that need to deliver products like auto parts, construction materials, paint, and HVAC components to customer sites. Dispatch’s tech letssuppliers orchestrate deliveries without owning a fleet of vehicles or employing drivers.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota. | $7.8M | Series A | Nov 29, 2018 |  |
| Dispatch | Dispatch is a technology that enables businesses to order a courier directly from the driver - bypassing traditional expenses that minimize company profits and reduce driver pay. The company targets companies that need to deliver products like auto parts, construction materials, paint, and HVAC components to customer sites. Dispatch’s tech letssuppliers orchestrate deliveries without owning a fleet of vehicles or employing drivers.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota. | $2M | Seed | Jul 03, 2018 |  |
| Field Nation | Field Nation is the world’s most active Freelancer Management System (FMS) ensuring successful collaborations in today’s rapidly changing world of work. Field Nation enables companies to find, hire, and pay contractors anywhere and easily manage their workforce. Founded in 2008, Field Nation is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | $200K | Seed | Jul 26, 2011 |  |
| Zencoder | Zencoder is web-based video encoding software as a service, designed to quickly convert any video into web and mobile compatible formats. It is for web sites and applications that accept uploaded videos and need to encode them to standard formats. | $2M | Series A | Apr 12, 2011 |  |
| Inveni | Inveni is a free web service and browser plug-in that provides highly personalized product recommendations based on a consumer's universal taste profile. To create a personalized taste profile, Inveni empowers users to aggregate product and service ratings they've made across the Internet to quickly build deep, rich profiles of theirtastes. Beginning with the media categories of movies and TV, users can share their taste profile information with friends and other services online. Inveni also facilitates product recommendations between friends (word of mouth), based on their tastes and uses a unique crowd-refined recommendation engine to provide hyper-personalized recommendations.In the summer of 2012 the company Inveni, LLC and the product Inveni.com were renamed Luma. | $483.3K | Seed | Feb 10, 2011 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Trinity Private Equity Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trinity-private-equity-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Comeback Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/comeback-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gopher Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gopher-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Groove Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/groove-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HPA (Hyde Park Angels)](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hyde-park-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [MATH Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/math-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Great North Ventures

VC Fund · Minneapolis, United States

Great North Ventures invests in entrepreneurs who are using the latest breakthrough technologies to innovate industries still dominated by analog processes. From Seed to Series B, the team provides guidance, capital, and connections. The fund looks for the best startups wherever they are located, because the next generation of great companies aregrowing outside of Silicon Valley. Built by successful founders, Great North Ventures values the ability to execute above all else.

5 contacts available at Great North Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pradip Madan | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pradip-madan |
| Robert Weber | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-weber |
| Ryan Weber | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ryan-weber |
| Josef Siebert | Director of Marketing | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/josef-siebert |
| Sanjay Jesrani | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sanjay-jesrani |

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## FAQ

### What does Robert Weber invest in?

Robert Weber invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Robert Weber last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Robert Weber closed in Feb 2024. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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