May 18, 2013
Dan HumanAn Indianapolis private investment firm has raised one of the largest-ever funds in the state. Centerfield Capital Partners
pulled in $171 million that it plans to invest in about 20 companies. Its two previous funds totaled $60 million and $116
million.
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May 4, 2013
J.K. WallInfuse Accelerator hopes to make early-stage investments in 12 to 15 companies a year.
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April 27, 2013
Dan HumanGetting $50,000—often from friends and relatives—to develop a product and set up a company still is easy enough
in Indiana, small-business leaders and venture capitalists say. But once a firm needs a few million dollars to grow into a
revenue-generating operation, the area can’t compete with Silicon Valley’s magnetism for venture capital.
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April 19, 2013
J.K. WallSeven Indiana companies attracted $16.4 million in venture capital during the first quarter. Nearly all the money was paid
out to Carmel-based ChaCha Search Inc., which secured a $14 million investment in January.
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March 23, 2013
Andrea Muirragui DavisIndianapolis-based startup Dreamapolis is finalizing the details of its first Dreamapolis Accelerator class, a 12-week crash
course designed to help high-potential urban businesses get up to speed quickly.
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February 16, 2013
Chris O'MalleyAllos Ventures has raised $40 million from local tech industry luminaries and others to invest in early-stage tech companies
in the Midwest, a segment that has seen funding dry up. The fund, Allos II, aims to invest $3 million to $7 million each in
about a dozen early-stage companies—not upstarts but those already generating solid revenue streams.
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February 11, 2013
J.K. WallTo understand why Indiana’s life sciences entrepreneurs are frustrated with the flow of venture capital, look no further
than this statistic from a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers report: 2012 was the slowest year for first-time life sciences investment
since 1995.
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January 28, 2013
Scott OlsonThe latest round of funding will enable ChaCha to make "significant" investments in new products to expand both mobile and
online services, CEO Scott Jones said. Internally, the project is dubbed "Go Big."
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January 18, 2013
J.K. WallVenture capital investments in Indiana dropped off in 2012, but local investors see the market here steadily gaining strength.
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December 15, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinThe Indiana Economic Development Corp. is looking to renew its commitment to life sciences by creating a $30 million venture
fund. The amount dedicated to one sector would be equal to the state’s allocation for all high-tech startups over the
past two years.
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December 4, 2012
J.K. WallIndianapolis-based Nico Corp. wants to use its new round of capital to develop brain surgery products to address diseases
that were often considered inoperable, such as metastatic brain cancer and intracerebral hemorrhages.
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December 1, 2012
J.K. WallEarly-stage venture capital has been harder and harder to come by for life sciences companies in recent years, but two Indianapolis
investors are working to raise sizable funds to help fill the gap.
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October 29, 2012
J.K. WallThe amount of venture capital invested in medical-device and equipment companies nationally has declined each quarter this
year, reaching levels not seen since 2004, according to data released Oct. 19 by the National Venture Capital Association
and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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October 27, 2012
Greg AndrewsIn just over a decade, the interactive marketer has rocketed from bootstrapped startup to New York Stock Exchange-listed company
with a market value of $1.5 billion.
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October 23, 2012
Chris O'MalleyScale Computing, a maker of data-storage devices that recently launched a “datacenter in a box,” has landed another
$12 million in venture funding.
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July 28, 2012
Andrea Muirragui DavisPrivate 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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July 28, 2012
J.K. WallResearch and development comes under pressure in an age of austerity.
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July 20, 2012
Associated PressFunding for U.S. startups fell 12 percent in the second quarter as venture capitalists poured less money into fewer deals
than a year earlier. But the number of companies getting funded in the earliest stages of development reached the highest
level in more than a decade.
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June 27, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinThe state of Indiana and former Colts are among the lead investors in Fishers-based software provider CloudOne, the company
announced this week.
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May 14, 2012
J.K. WallIndiana has taken “a giant step backward” in the availability of early-stage capital for life sciences companies,
according to the Indiana Health Industry Forum—which also has a few ideas on how to reverse those developments.
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May 1, 2012
Chris O'MalleyIndianapolis-based Blue Pillar Inc., which makes software to manage electrical grids, has closed on $7 million in funding
from four venture capital firms, it said Monday.
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April 30, 2012
J.K. WallBioCrossroads Inc. has raised an $8.25 million seed fund in its second attempt to help startup life sciences companies grow
to the point where they can attract venture capital or a corporate funder.
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April 28, 2012
Legacy Travel Club needs to raise $50,000 to unlock commitments from angel investors.
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March 31, 2012
Chris O'MalleyHigh-tech firms have been clamoring for a couple of decades for nonstop flights between Indianapolis International Airport
and California’s Silicon Valley. One of Indiana’s tech icons made it clear recently that the need is as urgent
as ever.
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March 30, 2012
J.K. WallIndianapolis-based Strand Diagnostics LLC will receive up to $30 million in investment capital over the next three years from
Los Angeles-based NantWorks LLC, a seed-stage investment firm, the companies announced this week.
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These higher rates Co. e about only because physicians are now hospital employees. otherwise physicians couldn't charge these rates and share the windfall with the hospital. Community/rural hospitals probably not buying physicians practices and thus weren't getting the windfall anyway.
The incentive for poor people to get themselves off public assistance and "no longer be poor" is even with help...they're STILL POOR! Being poor, even with some assistance, isn't all that pleasant. (I speak from experience) It's a stubborn myth that poor people, who are on public assistance, are sitting in the lap of luxury. You should try living on just those "freebies" that you mentioned and see how meager they actually are. By the way, I didn't mean you had to buy/own a puppy...just pet one. :)
As near as I can tell the minority has ZERO constitutional obligation to offer a quorum to the majority. A requirement for quorum was inserted into the constitution so that tyrannical majorities could not simply shove through odious and objectionable legislation (which is exactly what they did.) By allowing a tyrannical majority to charge fines against the minority for exercising their constitutional prerogative to deny quorum the court as made a mockery of constitutional governance in the state of Indiana.
The voters elected the Reps to make a vote not walk out on the vote. They had to the right to exercise their opinion and vote "no" to the bill. Let me ask you this if you walked out of your job for 5 straight weeks would you get paid? Would you even have a job to go back to? If any elected official walks out on the people they should be arrested for stealing tax dollars from the public. They were elected to do a job and not leave when the job gets stuff.
I have been to several of their locations in Pennsylvania and always go in for 1 item and leave with a basket full of things. I'm very happy they decided on Indiana, now if only they would put the other store in eastside.