Leawood Venture Capital

Leawood Venture Capital, established in 2016, is a Kansas-based private equity firm specializing in early-stage investments in tech companies across the United States. With a team comprising successful founders and experienced business operators, the firm leverages its extensive market and technology expertise to add value to its portfolio. Focusing on sectors such as technology, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity, Leawood Venture Capital has invested in over 25 companies since its inception.

Todd Daniels

Managing Director and General Partner

Brendan Fallis

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

Karl Gemperli

Co-Founder, Managing Director and General Partner

Past deals in Kansas

SquareOffs

Pre Seed Round in 2019
SquareOffs LLC is a company based in Kansas City, Kansas, founded in 2012. It operates The Opinion Network™, a cloud-based debate platform designed to facilitate interactive polls and user-generated debates on various topics. This platform allows publishers, bloggers, and brands to engage their audiences more effectively by encouraging social voting and discussion. SquareOffs serves customers globally, providing a space for readers and writers to share and vote on opinions, thereby driving engagement, readership, revenue, and insight. The company focuses on creating contagious content formats that spark meaningful conversations around sports, politics, entertainment, and other debates.

Main Street Data

Seed Round in 2018
Main Street Data is an agriculture technology company that develops a machine-learning platform to consolidate current and historical agronomic data, enabling farmers to benchmark yield performance and ROI. Its product Validator provides yield, yield gap, and ROI potential in bushels and dollars, supporting risk management and decision making across farming operations. The platform applies agronomy and data science to large volumes of field data and serves grain and cotton farmers, specialty crops, and large partners in the agriculture-based B2B food supply chain. The company focuses on delivering precise, faster, and more value-creating insights, tools, and solutions to improve risk assessment and decision making across the agricultural ecosystem. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Kansas City, Missouri.

SquareOffs

Convertible Note in 2017
SquareOffs LLC is a company based in Kansas City, Kansas, founded in 2012. It operates The Opinion Network™, a cloud-based debate platform designed to facilitate interactive polls and user-generated debates on various topics. This platform allows publishers, bloggers, and brands to engage their audiences more effectively by encouraging social voting and discussion. SquareOffs serves customers globally, providing a space for readers and writers to share and vote on opinions, thereby driving engagement, readership, revenue, and insight. The company focuses on creating contagious content formats that spark meaningful conversations around sports, politics, entertainment, and other debates.

Nitride Solutions

Venture Round in 2017
Nitride Solutions Inc. is a manufacturer specializing in aluminum nitride products tailored for the electronics market. The company develops and produces aluminum nitride templates, bulk substrates, and coatings that serve various applications, including deep-UV LEDs, high-power switches, motor controls, and UV laser diodes. Their products enhance electronic device structures by maintaining thermal conductivity and voltage resistance, addressing critical challenges in power generation, transmission, and high-speed communications. Founded in 2007 and based in Wichita, Kansas, Nitride Solutions focuses on providing solutions that meet the evolving demands of the electronics industry.
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