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Durham fate rests in judge's hands

November 29, 2012
Cory Schouten
Convicted Ponzi schemer Tim Durham and two accomplices will find out Friday whether they will spend the rest of their lives in prison.
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Speech recognition technology firm gets cash infusionRestricted Content

November 3, 2012
Waveform Communications LLC got its second round of funding for research and development.
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New rules open door to ads for private placementsRestricted Content

September 15, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlin
In accordance with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission will lift the long-standing ban on “general solicitation” of unregistered securities.
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Web startup aims to connect private businesses, investors

July 28, 2012
Andrea Muirragui Davis
Private firms that need to raise relatively modest amounts of capital have a hard time finding money. Now three Indianapolis entrepreneurs think they have the answer: crowdfunding. Individuals make small investments that are aggregated to fund a business. Indianapolis-based Localstake wants to be the matchmaker.
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SKARBECK: Merger lawsuits common, but investors seldom benefitRestricted Content

June 16, 2012
Ken Skarbeck
The filing of merger lawsuits is so predictable that many acquiring companies factor in class-action legal costs as a form of “transaction tax” to get their deals done.
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Angie’s List faces challenges in bid to go public

August 26, 2011
Scott Olson, Associated Press
The company said in its initial public offering that it has lost money since its inception. But it still could be attractive to prospective investors, said a local lawyer who helps companies go public.
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Communications giant WPP buys stake in Just Marketing

July 11, 2011
Anthony Schoettle
One of the world’s largest communications firms has acquired a stake in Just Marketing International, a locally based motorsports marketing firm that has been valued at about $100 million.
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Companies seek equity in return for services to startupsRestricted Content

April 16, 2011
Francesca Jarosz
A crop of Indianapolis companies is embracing the practice of developing and marketing products for startups in exchange for an ownership stake.
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Promising ethanol yeast nears market launchRestricted Content

June 19, 2010
Chris O'Malley
A firm that may have developed a breakthrough yeast for ethanol production has landed new investment and high-octane board members. Two-year-old Xylogenics Inc. also says it plans to license its first bioengineered yeast later this year.
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EnerDel's potential luring backers despite steep lossesRestricted Content

June 5, 2010
Peter Schnitzler
The parent of locally based lithium-ion battery maker EnerDel is putting together hundreds of millions of dollars in financing to fund a business plan that could bring revenue to nearly $1 billion within five years.
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UPDATE: Emmis takeover deal unlikely to hit turbulence

April 26, 2010
Greg Andrews, Scott Olson
A big Emmis Communications Corp. shareholder believes the $90 million deal CEO Jeff Smulyan unveiled Monday morning to take the company private is unlikely to get derailed—even though it’s worth far less than a takeover offer Smulyan failed to get through his board four years ago.
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Emmis chief looks to take company private

April 26, 2010
Scott Olson
JS Acquisition Inc., the company Emmis CEO Jeff Smulyan has established to complete the acquisition, would purchase all shares of publicly traded Emmis for about $90 million, according to Monday morning's announcement.
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UPDATE: Steak n Shake shareholders OK name change

April 8, 2010
Cory Schouten
Steak n Shake Co. shareholders on Thursday approved changing the parent company’s name to Biglari Holdings Inc. Shares begin trading under the new name on Friday.
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Steak n Shake CEO woos investors in New York City

April 8, 2010
Cory Schouten
Steak n Shake Co. doesn't operate a single restaurant in New York City, where it is hosting its annual meeting Thursday. But the world financial capital is chock full of high-profile investors intrigued by Steak n Shake CEO Sardar Biglari's plans to harvest cash from the 485-location restaurant chain and deploy it on other investments.
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Fair Finance investors file additional fraud suit

December 22, 2009
Greg Andrews
More than three dozen residents of a northeast Ohio county who invested in Fair Finance Co. are seeking to recover more than $2.1 million from the shuttered company.
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Lilly software spinoff Maaguzi sells for $11 millionRestricted Content

August 3, 2009
Chris O'Malley
Investors in a company built around clinical research software bought from Eli Lilly and Co. have found their exit, though it’s far from the lucrative payoff they’d once imagined.
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ChaCha co-founder dancing to different drumRestricted Content

April 27, 2009
Chris O'Malley
ChaCha Search Inc. co-founder Brad Bostic has stepped down as president of the human-assisted Internet search company, which is struggling to turn a profit in a dismal advertising climate, but he hasn't left. "Brad is still engaged with the company as a director, co-founder and consultant," said co-founder and CEO Scott Jones.
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Purdue student venture fund invests in Kylin TherapeuticsRestricted Content

March 16, 2009
Purdue University's Student-Managed Venture Fund is betting its bank on West Lafayette-based biotech startup Kylin Therapeutics Inc.
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Durham insider deal sparks outcry

March 9, 2009
Greg Andrews
Tim Durham is facing allegations of self-dealing after a publicly traded company he helps run in Dallas acquired assets from a finance company he owns in Ohio.
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DBSI, an Idaho company with Indiana properties, faces class-action suitRestricted Content

November 10, 2008
Cory Schouten

DBSI, an Idaho real estate firm with 250 properties worth $2 billion faces a class-action suit. Some of its properties and investors are in Indianapolis.

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VC firm raises $116M for second fund after knocking first one out of parkRestricted Content

September 29, 2008
Peter Schnitzler

Thanks to hefty 35-percent gross returns on its $60 million first fund, locally based Centerfield Capital Partners LP has raised nearly twice as much for its second. This month, the venture capital firm closed on $116 million from a variety of investors. As before, Centerfield's 50 limited partners include major Hoosier institutions. But this time, numerous big banks, insurance companies and pension funds from outside state lines were also investors.


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