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.
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.
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.
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.
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.