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Minnesota Why-Now List
31 AI-curated private-sector companies headquartered in Minnesota with a dated reason to call this quarter: funding, new leadership, active hiring or a corporate event. Built from the most recent and relevant signals, collected and refreshed every night, not pulled from a static database. Inside Lakewave, Lead Hunting adds new companies every night as fresh signals land in your territory, ranked against your sender profile.
Pick the ones you sell to. Lakewave finds the right people, verifies every address and drafts a first email for each, with tracking and follow-ups built in.
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|---|---|---|
| Digi International Hopkins · Computer Communications Equipment | Signed a material agreement (Aug 2026) | Corporate event, New leadership |
| Sezzle Minneapolis · Services-Business Services, Nec | Signed a material agreement (Aug 2026) | Corporate event, New leadership |
| 3m St Paul · Surgical & Medical Instruments & Apparatus | Signed a material agreement (Nov 2026) | Corporate event, New leadership |
| SkyWater Technology Bloomington · Semiconductors & Related Devices | Completed an acquisition or sale (Jul 2026) | Corporate event, New leadership |
| Sunopta Eden Prairie · Beverages | Completed an acquisition or sale (May 2026) | Corporate event, New leadership |
| Gravie Minneapolis · Health Insurance | Raised $50M in equity from 1 investors (Jun 2026) | Capital |
| Slingshot Insurance Minneapolis · Other Technology | Raised $27M in equity from 13 investors (Aug 2026) | Capital |
| Deluxe Minneapolis · Blankbooks, Looseleaf Binders & Bookbindg & Relatd Work | Signed a material agreement (Jul 2026) | Corporate event, New leadership |
| Fastenal Winona · Retail-Building Materials, Hardware, Garden Supply | Signed a material agreement (Jun 2026) | Corporate event, New leadership |
| Ecolab Saint Paul · Soap, Detergents, Cleang Preparations, Perfumes, Cosmetics | Officer or director change (May 2026) | Corporate event, New leadership |
| Chs Inver Grove Heights · Wholesale-Farm Product Raw Materials | Officer or director change (Oct 2026) | Corporate event, New leadership |
| Jefferson Capital, Inc. / DE Minneapolis · Short-Term Business Credit Institutions | Jefferson Capital, Inc. / DE: Signed a material agreement (Aug 2026) | Capital, Corporate event, New leadership |
| Bio-Techne Minneapolis · Biological Products, (No Diagnostic Substances) | Signed a material agreement (Jun 2026) | Corporate event, New leadership |
| Apogee Enterprises Minneapolis · Glass Products, Made Of Purchased Glass | Officer or director change (Oct 2026) | Corporate event, New leadership |
| Hormel Foods Austin · Meat Packing Plants | Officer or director change (Oct 2026) | Corporate event, New leadership |
| Xcel Energy Minneapolis · Electric & Other Services Combined | Officer or director change (Jul 2026) | Corporate event, New leadership |
| Maxwell Labs Little Canada · Other Technology | Raised $7.9M in equity from 31 investors (Feb 2026) | Capital |
| Vireo Growth Minneapolis · Other | Signed a material agreement (Oct 2026) | Capital, Corporate event, New leadership |
| Camelback Intelligence Prior Lake · Other Technology | Raised $6M in equity from 2 investors (Sep 2026) | Capital |
| Darcy Solutions Saint Paul · Other Energy | Raised $15M in equity from 16 investors (Jul 2026) | Capital |
| Graco Minneapolis · Pumps & Pumping Equipment | 171 open roles, 1 in leadership (Nov 2026) | Hiring, New leadership |
| Sunnydata Minneapolis · Other Technology | Raised $5M in equity from 12 investors (Dec 2025) | Capital |
| Shaed Minneapolis · Business Services | Raised $4.7M in equity from 2 investors (Feb 2026) | Capital |
| Yardstik Minneapolis · Other Technology | Raised $16.5M in equity from 10 investors (Jul 2026) | Capital |
| Claros Technologies Minneapolis · Other | Raised $46.9M in equity from 10 investors (Jul 2026) | Capital |
| Nuvaira Minneapolis · Other Health Care | Raised $35.8M in equity from 9 investors (Feb 2026) | Capital |
| Reprise Biomedical Plymouth · Biotechnology | Raised $9.2M in equity from 43 investors (May 2026) | Capital |
| Rise Modular Holdings Plymouth · Manufacturing | Raised $4M in equity from 4 investors (Jun 2026) | Capital |
| Allete Duluth · Electric & Other Services Combined | Completed an acquisition or sale (Dec 2025) | Corporate event, New leadership |
| Otter Tail Fergus Falls · Electric Services | Officer or director change (Aug 2026) | Corporate event, New leadership |
| Allina Health Surgery Center - Brooklyn Park Brooklyn Park · Other Health Care | 200 open roles (Nov 2026) | Capital, Hiring |
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Which accounts to pursue, why now, who to reach and what to say, matched to your product and the buyers you sell to.
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Start your free trialEvery account you select comes back scored by what changed this month, with the source for each fact.
Named officers from filings and announcements, each with an address verified against the mailbox. No bounces, no guessed patterns, no scraped profiles.
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A weekly note on what changed across your targets, so no account moves without you knowing.
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Compiled from public records and refreshed nightly; last updated Nov 10, 2026. Facts are as the SEC, the company's careers page or the company's own announcements published them. Check the source before acting. See something wrong? Tell us and we will correct it.