Landon Young
Investor at Elevate Ventures
Greater Bloomington Area
Overview
Work Experience
Vice President, Pre-Seed
2023 - Current
Executive Director of Entrepreneurial Programming
2022 - 2023
Executive Director of University Initiatives
2020 - 2022
Oversee entrepreneurial programming in support of 35 higher education institutions. - 500+ participants in virtual pitch deck and innovation training - $3.94 million in 85 startup investments - $1 million in grants to higher education institutions
Director of University Initiatives & EIR
2019 - 2020
Elevate Nexus regional pitch competition provides pre seed and seed investments.
Industry Advisory Council Member - CGT
2023
Investor, Owner
2020
SaaS, Sales Engagement Platform
Advisor
2017
Presso offers distributed micro-retail solution for ultra-fast dry-cleaning.
Raised $9,861,000.00 from SOSV, VSC Ventures, Pathbreaker Ventures, Buckhead America Hospitality, HAX, 1517 Fund, AME Cloud Ventures, Tishman Construction Group, Uncork Capital and Cherubic Ventures.
Founder
2015
Building the worlds most powerful and dynamic charitable marketplace for professional advisors, fund managers, and charitable organizations. Sign-up to use DonateEquity.com today.
Building the worlds most powerful and dynamic charitable marketplace for professional advisors, fund managers, and charitable organizations.
Lecturer - Accelerator
2024 - 2024
The MITS Accelerator aims to become a driver of Ukraine's defense tech, to help young technology companies find the best partners and scale up, and to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine get the best defense technology products into use as soon as possible. MITS offers startups an investment of $200,000: $100,000 in direct investment in the company and $100,000 in unique expertise provided by the accelerator in cooperation with the private American university in Ukraine, American University Kyiv, as well as a post-acceleration program aimed at further assisting startups in attracting investment and scaling. MITS and American University Kyiv, powered by Arizona State University (No. 1 in innovation among American universities in the newly released annual "Best Colleges" 2024 rankings by U.S. News & World Report), have developed a unique business program to help startups reach the world level of defense tech products, gain new competencies and become market leaders.
MITS Capital is a leading merchant bank facilitating US and NATO access to Ukraine's defense technology industry
Board Member
2015 - 2020
Board member of venture-backed agricultural technology company. TerraManus has patented implements for increases water holding capacity and soil conservation in tillage-based specialty crop systems.
TerraManus Technologies develops innovative soil conditioning and cropping systems to increasing crop yields and reduce costs.
Advisor
2014 - 2020
Advisor to mobile payments startup utilizing Patent Pending technology to improve vendor cash flow and loyalty rewards. Patent Information: United States 62/313,851
Partner
2017 - 2019
Making generous investments in virtuous entrepreneurs.
Business Strategist
2017 - 2019
As a Business Strategist, Landon works with founders, board and C-level, and product owners to align their vision and mission with the implementation of new technology. Clients range from funded SaaS startups to multi-billion dollar foundations and Fortune 500 companies. Typical technology projects range from Internet of Things (IoT) to digital designs and web & mobile application. Other projects include machine learning and voice integration. Landon relies on his cross-disciplinary experience in science, engineering, and technology to apply design thinking and lean startup principles to align client vision with marketplace need. Landon is formally trained at Purdue University (B.S.,M.S.), Stanford's d.School, and Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Cremalab is a product experience agency growing and learning along with their clients.