Elevate Ventures

09/30/2025

Join us for the HardTech & Product Workshop—a half-day, hands-on experience for founders, builders, and product leaders. Learn what it takes to move ideas from lab to market, scale your product and partnerships, and adopt a structured approach from prototyping to readiness. Walk away with actionable insights, real-world examples, and tools to accelerate adoption and reduce wasted cycles.

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A hands-on half-day experience designed for hardtech founders, builders, and product leaders.

07/16/2025

Big congratulations to the BiomEdit team. Big win for them and the state of Indiana!

BiomEdit has raised an $18.4m Series B round and is gearing up to launch its first product, a designer probiotic to tackle necrotic enteritis

07/02/2025

What do high-performing founders have in common?

They don’t waste energy on “lukewarm” audiences.

They find the believers and build from there.

At Elevate Ventures, that’s the kind of clarity we look for. Ian Illig of Stompbox captures it perfectly in this short clip from our recent Go-To-Market Workshop.

📊 Signal discipline. Market focus. Measurable traction.

05/01/2025

Hiring shouldn’t be a time-suck.

With Elevate+ Talent, founders get full-cycle recruiting help from job descriptions to offer letters. Whether our founders need help filling a mission-critical hire or making their first exec team addition, we support the entire journey.

✅ Executive-Level Hires
✅ Role Scoping & JD Drafting
✅ Interview Support
✅ Candidate Screening
✅ Comp Package Guidance
✅ Offer Management

You bring the vision, we’ll help you build the team.

05/01/2025

🎉 We’re honored to share that Elevate Ventures has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Indiana by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce 🏆

This recognition is a direct reflection of the incredible people who make up our team. A group of mission-driven, collaborative, and creative professionals who show up every day to support Indiana’s innovators.

We believe that building a great workplace isn’t just about perks, it’s about purpose. And we’re proud to create an environment where bold ideas, integrity, and meaningful work thrive.

🙏 Thank you to the Indiana Chamber for this honor, and congratulations to all the other organizations recognized this year!

04/30/2025

The future of sports broadcasting is here, and it’s being shaped by leaders like Zora Stephenson of NBC Sports. 🎙️

In this episode of Innovate or Evaporate, Zora shares her journey, the importance of humanizing athletes, and how preparation and authenticity are changing the game for the next generation of broadcasters.

🎧 Listen here: https://hubs.ly/Q03ktHjL0
📺 Watch here: https://hubs.ly/Q03ktGgl0

04/21/2025

👋 Meet Marie Deveau-Rogers, the team member behind Elevate+ Talent.

Marie brings a decade of experience leading full-cycle recruiting and team building across startups and high-growth orgs. She knows what it takes to build resilient, high-performing teams with an investment that is up to 75% more cost-effective than traditional recruiting models.

04/21/2025

This conversation between Super Bowl champ Tarik Glenn and Christopher (Toph) Day is about more than football; it’s about grit, reinvention, and how we create real change in our communities. He opens up about founding Dream Alive, building character in the next generation, and redefining what it means to win.

🎧 Listen here: https://hubs.ly/Q03h-bqZ0
📺 Or watch: https://hubs.ly/Q03hZYjz0

04/17/2025

🚀 Introducing Elevate Talent: A service built by founders, for founders.

Hiring is one of the hardest and most high-stakes parts of building a startup. That’s why we created Elevate Talent, to take the weight off our founder’s shoulders and help them build the team that builds their companies.

It's more than just a recruiting service; it’s trusted, founder-first support.

04/17/2025

Track one of the workshop has officially launched. Track two, see you soon!

01/09/2025

Welcome to the Totchop! Founded by Indiana dads, totchop offers safer, easier mealtime solutions. Launched after a choking scare, their innovative cutting tool simplifies meal prep for parents. With a kids' version coming soon, Totchop is redefining mealtime for families.

Visit https://totchop.com/ to see what they have to offer and learn more.

01/06/2025

The invisible earthquake of AI adoption is decimating some businesses while catapulting others to 10x growth. Our CEO, Christopher (Toph) Day, breaks down the stark reality in his recent Indianapolis Business Journal article: only 2% of companies have achieved the data quality needed for effective AI implementation.

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There is a massive invisible earthquake happening right now. It is the proliferation of artificial intelligence, and it is real.