Entrepreneurs Yaw Aning and Anthony Smith are thinking big with their latest company, which was launched out of "stealth mode" Tuesday with an announcement that it raised $600,000 in early venture funding.
Yaw Aning grew his entrepreneurial company, which focuses on helping build tech products from four to 16 employees, tripling revenue and launching 70 web and mobile applications. He’s attracted such clients as the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, Bluebridge, and CoatChex, which appeared on “Shark Tank.”
Emma Hostetter’s business generated $100,000 in revenue in its first year—without an actual website. She has one now, and it’s about to get an e-commerce component.
Wondering why there were so few women members—and even fewer business owners—at Launch Fishers, Kristen Cooper created free Startup Study Halls to provide community and camaraderie to help grow startups.
If a team is homogenous, its members will more likely arrive at similar conclusions in thought. Conversely, dissenting opinions lead groups to look at problems and evaluate solutions differently.
All have led some of the most promising companies and organizations in the city’s burgeoning tech space for at least three years—bootstrapping and collectively raising more than $12 million in venture capital and employing about 150 people along the way.
