Leawood Venture Capital

Leawood Venture Capital is a venture capital firm based in Leawood, Kansas, founded in 2016. The firm specializes in seed stage, early stage, growth capital, later stage, and expansion stage investments, primarily focusing on technology-driven companies. Leawood Venture Capital targets sectors such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics, cyber security, internet of things, mobile and wireless technologies, and energy technology. The firm aims to leverage its team's extensive market and technology expertise to identify and invest in innovative companies, seeking to add value through strong relationships and insights gained from its national presence. Since its inception, Leawood Venture Capital has raised multiple funds and invested in over 25 portfolio companies across the United States.

Todd Daniels

Managing Director & General Partner

Brendan Fallis

Co-Founder, Managing Director, General Partner & Member of the Investment committee

Karl Gemperli

Co-Founder, Managing Director & General Partner

Patrick S. Ryan

Angel

22 past transactions

Biotia

Series A in 2022
Biotia, Inc. is a health technology company based in New York, founded in 2016. The company specializes in developing software that utilizes DNA sequencing and artificial intelligence to identify and mitigate pathogens and antimicrobial threats before they can cause illness. By leveraging next-generation sequencing and advanced software solutions, Biotia enables clinicians and researchers to enhance patient treatment and improve health outcomes through rapid precision in infectious disease discovery.

quadric.io

Series B in 2022
quadric.io is an end-to-end architecture optimized for real-time edge computing. It aims to empower developers in every industry with superpowers to create tomorrow’s technology, today. The company also designed to meet the powerful needs of next-level autonomous products, like self-driving cars and robots. quadric.io was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA, USA.

Adlumin

Series B in 2021
Adlumin Inc. operates a security and compliance automation platform designed to identify threats, operational failures, and compliance issues within IT systems in the United States. Founded in 2016 and based in Washington, D.C., Adlumin's platform integrates data from various sources, including network traffic, web servers, VPNs, and firewalls. By utilizing security orchestration, automation, machine learning, and analytics, the platform aids IT teams in detecting and mitigating identity-based attacks. Additionally, Adlumin offers features like One-Touch Compliance Reporting, enabling users to generate reports for financial audits efficiently.

Sorcero

Venture Round in 2021
Sorcero, Inc. develops and offers office suite software. The company's no code platform enables deploying of AI (artificial intelligence) powered decision support and knowledge management applications. Sorcero, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Washington, District Of Columbia.

Adlumin

Series A in 2020
Adlumin Inc. operates a security and compliance automation platform designed to identify threats, operational failures, and compliance issues within IT systems in the United States. Founded in 2016 and based in Washington, D.C., Adlumin's platform integrates data from various sources, including network traffic, web servers, VPNs, and firewalls. By utilizing security orchestration, automation, machine learning, and analytics, the platform aids IT teams in detecting and mitigating identity-based attacks. Additionally, Adlumin offers features like One-Touch Compliance Reporting, enabling users to generate reports for financial audits efficiently.

Sorcero

Convertible Note in 2020
Sorcero, Inc. develops and offers office suite software. The company's no code platform enables deploying of AI (artificial intelligence) powered decision support and knowledge management applications. Sorcero, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Washington, District Of Columbia.

HyperQube

Seed Round in 2020
HyperQube is a “cyber range as a service” offering that enables enterprises to quickly and easily build an exact copy of any IT infrastructure. Their virtualized test environments can be built in minutes and just as easily modified, re-used and shared. With the ability to look to the future and explore infrastructures in a risk-free environment, engineers will save hours on labor, security officers will feel assured and executives will conserve thousands of dollars.

Reniac

Series A in 2020
rENIAC, Inc. designs and develops an intelligent data-aware architecture for applications, servers, and data stores. It develops a data engine platform that accelerates and optimizes open source database implementations for data-centric application. The company also provides Cassandra I/O accelerator; distributed and persistent cache; and storage engine for graphs and SQL databases. rENIAC, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional locations in Hyderabad, India; and Richmond, Canada.

DeepSig

Series A in 2020
DeepSig is an early-stage startup that develops deep learning software to reinvent wireless communications. By replacing core wireless technology with deep learning, DeepSig makes communication systems faster, more cost-efficient, more secure, and able to excel in complex environments. It uses machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to learn optimized models directly from data rather than manually designing specialized algorithms, transforming wireless for 5G, IoT, and security.

SquareOffs

Pre Seed Round in 2019
SquareOffs LLC is a cloud-based debate platform that facilitates interactive polls for publishers, bloggers, and brands, enhancing reader engagement and generating revenue. Founded in 2012 and based in Kansas City, Kansas, SquareOffs allows users to express their opinions, share insights, and participate in voting on various topics, including sports, politics, and entertainment. The platform promotes social voting and user-generated debates, enabling meaningful conversations around content. By harnessing the power of collective opinion, SquareOffs helps its customers worldwide foster engagement and gain valuable insights into audience preferences.

Cerebri AI

Convertible Note in 2019
Cerebri AI Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, develops software solutions aimed at enhancing decision-making for enterprises. The company's key offering, the Cerebri Decisions platform, utilizes advanced artificial intelligence technologies from leading providers such as IBM Watson, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Through its SaaS product, Cerebri CX 2.0, the company enables organizations to assess individual brand commitment and implement personalized actions in real time, thereby increasing revenue and lowering costs across various channels. This platform employs reinforcement learning to evaluate the value of customer interactions—encompassing sales, marketing, and service—providing actionable insights into customer experience from the customer's perspective.

InsightRx

Series A in 2019
InsightRX is a software platform that incorporates the principles of quantitative pharmacology and machine learning to provide an individualized understanding of a patient’s response to treatment. It delivers its technology in the form of easy-to-use clinical decision support tools at the point-of-care to help guide treatment decision-making. The platform guides treatment decisions at both the individual level and the population level. InsightRX controls clinically validated pharmacokinetic models, patient physiology, pharmacogenomics, drug concentrations, and biomarkers to optimize dosing. It combines real-time patient data and machine learning to understand individual patient pharmacology and inform dose optimization. The platform also leverages disease-based pharmacodynamics models to inform treatment decision making. InsightRX was launched in 2015 by Ron Keizer, Sirj Goswami, and Ranvir Mangat. It is operated from San Francisco, California.

Pillar Technologies

Venture Round in 2019
Pillar Technologies, Inc. specializes in construction site risk management services by utilizing on-site sensors to monitor environmental conditions that can lead to significant revenue losses for general contractors and insurance companies. Founded in 2015 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts, the company focuses on detecting and preventing destructive conditions such as fire outbreaks, high humidity, and mold growth. Its real-time risk management platform offers features like risk education, failure forecasting, and insurance optimization, enabling users to access timely information and alerts. Additionally, Pillar Technologies leverages predictive analytics to inform building strategies and management practices, helping to mitigate risks associated with accident-prone scenarios.

quadric.io

Series A in 2019
quadric.io is an end-to-end architecture optimized for real-time edge computing. It aims to empower developers in every industry with superpowers to create tomorrow’s technology, today. The company also designed to meet the powerful needs of next-level autonomous products, like self-driving cars and robots. quadric.io was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA, USA.

nDimensional

Venture Round in 2019
nDimensional is passionate about extracting value from data using analytics. Their team has been doing it for nearly thirty years. From solving complex problems to uncovering new opportunities, They are committed to helping companies use analytics to get to a deeper understanding of what’s going on in their business, and turning data-driven insights into business decisions in real time.

Gastrograph

Series A in 2018
Gastrograph, developed by Analytical Flavor Systems, Inc., is an artificial intelligence platform designed for the food and beverage industry. Founded in 2010 and based in New York, the platform enables companies to gather real-time flavor data, detect and predict production flaws, and assess market fit. By moving beyond traditional tasting panels, Gastrograph employs a predictive flavor profile engine to evaluate how new products are likely to perform across various markets and demographic segments. This capability is particularly valuable in an industry characterized by high failure rates, as it helps food companies adapt to rapidly changing consumer preferences and optimize their product development processes. Through its innovative approach, Gastrograph supports packaged food companies in navigating the complexities of the modern marketplace.

Main Street Data

Seed Round in 2018
Main Street Data Corp is a data-driven company focused on transforming the agricultural industry through advanced machine learning tools. Founded in 2016 and based in Kansas City, Missouri, the company develops applications that consolidate current and historical agronomic data, enabling farmers to benchmark yield performance and enhance their return on investment. Its primary product, Validator, provides insights into yield, yield gaps, and potential ROI in both bushels and dollars. Main Street Data applies sophisticated analytical techniques to large volumes of field data, serving diverse agricultural markets, including grain, cotton, and specialty crops. The company aims to deliver precise, rapid, and value-adding insights and tools to support risk management and decision-making in the agriculture sector.

Lumiata

Series B in 2018
Lumiata is transforming the healthcare enterprise through the application of AI. Bringing predictive power within reach of data science teams and business users, we’re driving predictability and precision at scale — empowering providers and payers to reduce risk and manage costs and move out of reliance on flat data into a future of insights. Lumiata machine learning tools and pre-trained models comprise a scalable platform purpose-built for healthcare. Lumiata products are built from more than 120 million patient records, in-depth clinical knowledge, and its proprietary clinical IP. Lumiata enables healthcare organizations to explore use cases such as underwriting and care management. Lumiata is proud to be backed by Khosla Ventures, Blue Venture Fund, Defy.vc, and AllegisNL Capital. Team Lumiata is distributed across Silicon Valley, Dallas, and Guadalajara, Mexico.

Cerebri AI

Series A in 2018
Cerebri AI Inc., established in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, develops software solutions aimed at enhancing decision-making for enterprises. The company's key offering, the Cerebri Decisions platform, utilizes advanced artificial intelligence technologies from leading providers such as IBM Watson, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Through its SaaS product, Cerebri CX 2.0, the company enables organizations to assess individual brand commitment and implement personalized actions in real time, thereby increasing revenue and lowering costs across various channels. This platform employs reinforcement learning to evaluate the value of customer interactions—encompassing sales, marketing, and service—providing actionable insights into customer experience from the customer's perspective.

Pepper

Funding Round in 2018
Pepper offers an IoT operating system and service delivery platform that empowers enterprises to deploy sophisticated IoT solutions. The introduction of billions of new connected devices (and other "things") requires a new user-experience paradigm—one that enables both consumers and enterprises the ability to effectively manage, control, and engage with their increasingly connected worlds. Pepper solves the problems associated with this increased complexity through the combination of its user operating system and service delivery platform.

Lumiata

Series A in 2017
Lumiata is transforming the healthcare enterprise through the application of AI. Bringing predictive power within reach of data science teams and business users, we’re driving predictability and precision at scale — empowering providers and payers to reduce risk and manage costs and move out of reliance on flat data into a future of insights. Lumiata machine learning tools and pre-trained models comprise a scalable platform purpose-built for healthcare. Lumiata products are built from more than 120 million patient records, in-depth clinical knowledge, and its proprietary clinical IP. Lumiata enables healthcare organizations to explore use cases such as underwriting and care management. Lumiata is proud to be backed by Khosla Ventures, Blue Venture Fund, Defy.vc, and AllegisNL Capital. Team Lumiata is distributed across Silicon Valley, Dallas, and Guadalajara, Mexico.

Nitride Solutions

Venture Round in 2017
Nitride Solutions Inc. develops and manufactures aluminum nitride products for the electronics market. It offers aluminum nitride templates (AlN on sapphire) for use in deep-UV LEDs; bulk aluminum nitride substrates that enable high-power switches, motor controls, and UV laser diodes; and aluminum nitride coatings on copper or aluminum that simplify electronic device structures while maintaining thermal conductivity and voltage resistance. The company’s products are used for the needs of water and air, power generation, and transmission and higher-speed communications. Nitride Solutions Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Wichita, Kansas.