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
We believe everything carries unexpressed value.
Inside people. Businesses. Capabilities. Relationships. Ideas. Technology. Experiences. What has already been built.
The opportunity is rarely that nothing valuable exists.
It’s that we haven’t learned to see everything that does.
SEEDSPARK exists to change that.
We discover unexpressed value, find combinations others overlook, and activate what emerges.
Discover → Combine → Activate.
It’s a different approach to growth.
Instead of immediately asking what needs to be added — more people, more leads, more technology, more capital, more effort — we begin with what already exists.
What do you know that hasn’t been fully expressed?
What can you do that hasn’t been fully activated?
Who and what are already within reach?
What becomes possible when those pieces are combined differently?
We call this Combine First™.
Over more than two decades of building businesses and working alongside entrepreneurs, we’ve seen the same pattern repeatedly: extraordinary opportunities are often hiding in plain sight.
SEEDSPARK is building the intelligence, technology, systems, and environments to make seeing and activating those opportunities repeatable.
CoLAB creates the environment for entrepreneurs to discover what becomes possible when their unique value is combined.
Aether provides the intelligence to recognize patterns, possibilities, and combinations that would otherwise remain unseen.
Together, they allow us to do something deceptively simple:
See more in what already exists.
Then activate what it can become.
SEEDSPARK
We discover and activate unexpressed value.
Combine First™.
We are global change-makers. We are on a mission to change the HR recruitment industry by helping build incredible teams with the People and Talent functions that drive ambitious businesses. Specifically, we focus on specialist hires within the People function, creating networks of niche HR talent for roles across the core areas of People and Talent, Reward and People Analytics, and HR Infrastructure.
The old, traditional way of ‘doing human resources’ no longer works for today’s working and professional environments. The remit of HR and People teams has rapidly evolved. HR is now a central pillar, helping to define the strategy and culture of a business. In a fast-changing world, it needs to partner with individuals who grasp this and are evolving alongside this change.
This is why we set up Catalyst. We are a team of innovators, deeply specialist in each of our HR-focused areas, and with years of industry experience for our clients and candidates to benefit from. There are two tenets we stand by: a service delivered at pace without compromise; setting the bar higher for doing the basics brilliantly. Things agencies should be doing, but don’t.
We recruit for all levels within HR, with specialist knowledge placing senior and technical roles across Banking and Finance, Investor-backed businesses, Private Equity and Commerce industries. Each Catalyst expert is dedicated to transforming the HR recruitment experience, so no matter what the job requirements, we can build incredible teams.