William and his team have started turning the Butler IT department into a revenue center by identifying services that can be provided to third parties involved in campus operations.
Several well-known Indiana companies were acquisition targets, including biotech firm Endocyte Inc., retailer The Finish Line Inc., racino owner Centaur Gaming, auto body chain Church Brothers Collision Repair, banking company MainSource Financial Group, and gas and electric utility Vectren Corp.
Indianapolis-based ClearScholar, which provides app-based software to communicate with and engage students, recently announced deals with New Castle School of Trades in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and North American Trade Schools, a private vocational school in Baltimore. The two organizations are using ClearScholar’s platform “to attract new students and create deeper connections with prospective and current […]
ClearScholar Inc., a local company that produces software that makes it easier for colleges to get tailored information to its students, could add hundreds of new clients and dozens of employees in the next two years if all goes according to plan.
The company, which develops student-engagement applications for universities, more than doubled its office space this month by moving operations across Monument Circle, from Circle Tower into the Lacy Building.
Scott McCorkle, who stepped down as CEO of Salesforce Marketing Cloud in August, will be executive in residence at High Alpha, a firm that creates and nurtures enterprise-technology companies.
Hoosier companies signed 31 venture capital deals worth $77 million last year, a 16-year-high for deal activity that underscores Indiana’s growing variety of high growth firms.
This is the second capital raise for ClearScholar, which runs an app for college students that aims to be a primary digital destination for school information.
After helping grow the ExactTarget recruiting team from five to 45, M.T. Ray now attracts talent to High Alpha’s portfolio companies—including Lessonly, Sigstr, ClearScholar, Zylo and Doxly.
The new legal software firm is called Doxly Inc., and it’s led by a 36-year-old DePauw grad. With a few paying customers already in hand, it’s the third company to germinate at High Alpha.
ClearScholar Inc. is the first portfolio company High Alpha built from scratch. It plans to make student-engagement software for colleges and universities, starting with Butler University this fall.
