Landon Young

Pre-Seed @ Elevate Ventures

📍 Lafayette, Indiana, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2020𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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Investor, Owner
Sep 2020
LeadSigma is a sales-tech platform that plugs leaky sales funnels by connecting online forms (websites, landing pages, and/or digital lead forms) to business phones, creating immediate revenue generating conversations with new customers. In addition, LeadSigma provides actionable follow-up tasks which ensure that sales teams execute the right follow-up actions at the right times.
Kansas City Executive Board Member
May 2016
Techweek creates and curates engaging media, dynamic events and disruptive content on web, digital and interactive technology, bringing together diverse communities of entrepreneurs, corporate professionals and thought leaders. The ultimate goal of Techweek is to spotlight and enable innovation ecosystems.
Board Member
Jun 2015
Our patented TerraStar® technology is proven to sustainably enhance grower performance. TerraManus Technologies is a soil conditioning and cropping systems development company that settles for nothing less than excellence from ourselves and our partners. Years of independent field testing shows that TerraStar increases crop yields and decreases input costs for farmers around the globe, while managing the earth’s increasingly fragile soil and water resources, thereby becoming the reconciling link between competing economic and environmental interests worldwide.
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2025
2024
Lecturer - Accelerator
May 2024
MITS Capital – an American-Ukrainian investment group established in early 2024 to connect Western capital with Ukraine’s battlefield innovation. The firm combines a venture fund, accelerator, and financial advisory, uniquely positioning it to scale dual-use and defense technologies. Led by seasoned investors and defense experts, MITS Capital brings deep expertise in early-stage and growth investments in defense technology. The MITS supervisory board is co-led by a former NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Defense Investment and the former Country Director at Google for Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Among the members of the Supervisory Board are esteemed senior executives with decades of experience at Rasmussen Global, Lockheed Martin, ACME General Corp.
2023
Vice President, Pre-Seed
Dec 2023
Elevate Ventures invests in high-potential cross-sector innovative companies with a minimum $500M TAM at the pre-seed, seed, and early stages. Over the last 10+ years, Elevate has invested capital in more than 500 Indiana-based startups and provided assistance to nearly 4,000 companies across 86 counties. We are the #1 Most Active Seed & Early-Stage Venture Capital Firm in the Great Lakes Region. The foundation is set for an even more impactful 10 years ahead with Indiana’s potential to become the Innovation Capital of the World®. To drive our state closer to this vision, Elevate focuses on three areas: • Community: Build Collaborative Communities • Capital: Invest in High-Potential Companies • Acceleration: Provide World-Class Programming Learn more at https://elevateventures.com
2020
Investor, Owner
Sep 2020
LeadSigma is a sales-tech platform that plugs leaky sales funnels by connecting online forms (websites, landing pages, and/or digital lead forms) to business phones, creating immediate revenue generating conversations with new customers. In addition, LeadSigma provides actionable follow-up tasks which ensure that sales teams execute the right follow-up actions at the right times.
2017
GIVE VC
Partner
Jun 2017
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