Ryan Leeper

Laborup is the #1 AI powered talent platform for America’s industrial workforce. We use AI to create jobs, not take them away. We help HR and plant leaders hire and keep the skilled workers who keep plants running: machinists, welders, maintenance techs, operators, industrial electricians, and engineers. USA Today called us the “LinkedIn for blue collar workers,” and Forbes profiled our work in “How AI Is Solving America’s 1 Trillion Dollar Manufacturing Labor Crisis.” Today we work with manufacturers from 50 person shops to large public companies with tens of thousands of employees, and the story is the same everywhere. It is hard to find talent, hard to keep good people, and staffing costs keep rising. In a market where filling critical industrial roles can take months and turnover is constant, Laborup helps teams move qualified workers from first contact to on site interview in days instead of weeks and keep them on the floor longer. Most of the workers our customers need are not on LinkedIn or the usual job boards. Laborup uses AI to find this hidden workforce, call and text them, screen and qualify them, build real profiles, and match them directly to the plants and roles where they can succeed. For workers, that means real, permanent roles at serious manufacturers, not one off gigs. For companies, it is durable infrastructure for hiring and retention at scale in a labor market that will stay tight for years. We work across nuclear, defense, and advanced manufacturing, as well as sectors like aerospace, automotive, and food production. Teams that use Laborup hire 5 to 10 times faster, see around 3 times better retention, and cut cost per hire by up to 50 to 70 percent. That turns into fewer empty shifts, fewer missed orders, more stable teams, and more capacity without more headache. We are building the modern talent system for America’s industrial base with a simple long term goal: put a billion industrial workers to work in good jobs that matter.

GenLogs is the Truck Intelligence™ platform leveraging AI on a nationwide network of roadside sensors, satellites, and proprietary datasets. GenLogs tracks all commercial vehicle patterns in the United States in order to drive better business outcomes for customers in trucking, logistics, insurance, commercial real estate, financial institutions and governments.

AI to unlock smarter manufacturing. The only AI platform to scale to every part of your business. Automate sales, production, and supply chain processes.

Pear is the retail ecommerce platform that connects CPGs to retailers, converting shoppable tools into actionable insights that fuel performance marketing.   For CPG Companies: Pear brings your digital marketing to life by adding a call to action. Consumers can purchase a product or claim an offer right from the ad, and Pear provides the shoppability for a local retailer who can fulfill the transaction. Pear collects your consumer’s information, so you’ll know your customers and their purchasing behavior better, while driving more sales for your products. For Retailers: Pear brings consumers to your online ordering. When a consumer interacts with a CPG advertisement, we pair the transaction with a retailer and create a new account in their online ordering system. Pear brings you high-intent audiences looking to purchase, and partners with CPG companies to bring you more business. Pear provides a supplement to CPC marketing to bring you more accounts at a fraction of the cost.

Enaia exists to transform Commercial Real Estate by Elevating CRE Brokers.

Heartland Ventures is a venture capital firm that connects high-growth startups with our Midwestern corporate LPs and customer base. We invest in high-growth startups bringing innovative technology to traditional Midwestern industries, including manufacturing, construction, logistics, and real estate. Our deep network of executives at industry-leading corporations helps validate technologies by serving as pilot customers, often before we invest in the startup. Heartland Ventures plays an integral role in bridging the gap between traditional technology hubs and the Midwest. This model benefits the Midwest by: -Helping startups expand into the region and create new employment opportunities -Creating more technology-related jobs that will continue to attract talent to the region and help retain the existing talent for the long-term -Importing high-growth startups that aspiring entrepreneurs can learn from -Attracting investment dollars from outside the region to strengthen the region’s innovation infrastructure -Bringing national attention to the region

The Privacy, Governance & Compliance Operating System from Mine! As the #1 rated data privacy platform on G2, businesses prefer MineOS over the competition for its simplicity, unique automation, and ML-assisted features, which make quick work of compliance. Discover data quickly and thoroughly, highlight and act on relevant risks, manage data requests and customer consent beautifully, prevent breaches and ensure compliance stays effortless - with MineOS.

Certificial is an all-in-one insurance verification platform used by leading Insurance Agencies like AssuredPartners and large corporations like Amazon to share real-time insurance coverage information about their mutual Clients and Suppliers. We are the only platform that monitors and updates certificates of insurance (COIs) in real-time using our SmartCOI technology. Here’s how it works: Insurance Agencies integrate with Certificial to issue SmartCOIs, which automatically update whenever there are changes to coverage, like policy limits and endorsements. This eliminates the need for manual updates on either side, and significantly reduces the back-and-forth emails and phone calls. Wouldn’t you say it’s time to switch from PDF COIs and join the 100K+ using SmartCOIs?

Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company based in Columbus, Ohio, is one of the largest and strongest diversified insurance and financial services organizations in the United States. Nationwide is rated A+ by Standard & Poors. An industry leader in driving customer-focused innovation, Nationwide provides a full range of insurance and financial services products including auto, business, homeowners, farm and life insurance; public and private sector retirement plans, annuities and mutual funds; excess & surplus, specialty and surety; and pet, motorcycle and boat insurance. For more information, visit www.nationwide.com.

Laborup is the #1 AI powered talent platform for America’s industrial workforce. We use AI to create jobs, not take them away. We help HR and plant leaders hire and keep the skilled workers who keep plants running: machinists, welders, maintenance techs, operators, industrial electricians, and engineers. USA Today called us the “LinkedIn for blue collar workers,” and Forbes profiled our work in “How AI Is Solving America’s 1 Trillion Dollar Manufacturing Labor Crisis.” Today we work with manufacturers from 50 person shops to large public companies with tens of thousands of employees, and the story is the same everywhere. It is hard to find talent, hard to keep good people, and staffing costs keep rising. In a market where filling critical industrial roles can take months and turnover is constant, Laborup helps teams move qualified workers from first contact to on site interview in days instead of weeks and keep them on the floor longer. Most of the workers our customers need are not on LinkedIn or the usual job boards. Laborup uses AI to find this hidden workforce, call and text them, screen and qualify them, build real profiles, and match them directly to the plants and roles where they can succeed. For workers, that means real, permanent roles at serious manufacturers, not one off gigs. For companies, it is durable infrastructure for hiring and retention at scale in a labor market that will stay tight for years. We work across nuclear, defense, and advanced manufacturing, as well as sectors like aerospace, automotive, and food production. Teams that use Laborup hire 5 to 10 times faster, see around 3 times better retention, and cut cost per hire by up to 50 to 70 percent. That turns into fewer empty shifts, fewer missed orders, more stable teams, and more capacity without more headache. We are building the modern talent system for America’s industrial base with a simple long term goal: put a billion industrial workers to work in good jobs that matter.

GenLogs is the Truck Intelligence™ platform leveraging AI on a nationwide network of roadside sensors, satellites, and proprietary datasets. GenLogs tracks all commercial vehicle patterns in the United States in order to drive better business outcomes for customers in trucking, logistics, insurance, commercial real estate, financial institutions and governments.

AI to unlock smarter manufacturing. The only AI platform to scale to every part of your business. Automate sales, production, and supply chain processes.

Pear is the retail ecommerce platform that connects CPGs to retailers, converting shoppable tools into actionable insights that fuel performance marketing.   For CPG Companies: Pear brings your digital marketing to life by adding a call to action. Consumers can purchase a product or claim an offer right from the ad, and Pear provides the shoppability for a local retailer who can fulfill the transaction. Pear collects your consumer’s information, so you’ll know your customers and their purchasing behavior better, while driving more sales for your products. For Retailers: Pear brings consumers to your online ordering. When a consumer interacts with a CPG advertisement, we pair the transaction with a retailer and create a new account in their online ordering system. Pear brings you high-intent audiences looking to purchase, and partners with CPG companies to bring you more business. Pear provides a supplement to CPC marketing to bring you more accounts at a fraction of the cost.

Enaia exists to transform Commercial Real Estate by Elevating CRE Brokers.