Gov. Eric Holcomb’s Next Level Trust Fund, which designates $250 million for venture capital, also made our list.
Read MoreAprimo, which was founded in Indianapolis in 1998, is now based in Chicago but retains a significant employee presence here.
Read MoreThe private equity firm that in April bought the business unit formerly known as Aprimo has combined it with another company and is restoring its name. It'll be based in Chicago and employ 200 people in Indy.
The Dayton, Ohio-based company, which purchased Indianapolis-based Aprimo for $525 million in 2010, is unloading the business unit for $90 million to a private equity firm.
Former Aprimo CEO Bill Godfrey, who steered the software company to a $525 million sale in 2010, has assembled some of its other former leaders for a Carmel-based startup.
Sigstr, whose software helps companies market themselves through email signatures, raised about $1.5 million from prominent investors across the country.
Dayton, Ohio-based Teradata bought Indianapolis-based Aprimo five years ago for $525 million, but has decided to go in a different direction with the business unit. It didn’t say whether it had a buyer lined up.
Older technology entrepreneurs and executives who have experienced successful corporate exits often limit their startup involvement to mentoring, investing and board membership. But a raft of veteran technology leaders are getting involved again in a hands-on way.
The tech VC firm recently invested $7 million in Smarter Remarketer. It previously bet on Made2Manage Systems, Angie’s List and ExactTarget.
The tech community is rallying around an initiative to brand Indianapolis as the “marketing technology capital of the world,” trading on the success of such firms as ExactTarget and Angie’s List.
Aprimo founder joins other notables as TechPoint Trailblazer.
Money and experience have flowed to a number of firms from Software Artistry executives.
Flashy displays of wealth seldom erupt in Indianapolis after an entrepreneur makes good, and they’re even more unusual now that the recession sobered even the most successful among them.
In a question-and-answer forum, leaders weigh in on topics ranging from tech transfer to the future of Aprimo.
Aprimo Inc. ratchets up customers, sales and market presence under new owner Teradata, and will continue job growth plans for Indianapolis.
Fourth quarter helps to bolster 2010 deal-making.
Observers say conditions are ripening for more deals like the recent $525 million sale of Aprimo Inc. in the months ahead—not only among IT firms, but also among biotech companies here.
Marketing software company Aprimo Inc. will stay in Indianapolis after being sold for $525 million to Dayton, Ohio-based based data storage giant Teradata Corp., Aprimo CEO Bill Godfrey said Wednesday.
Indianapolis-based marketing software maker Aprimo Inc. will be sold to an Ohio data-storage company for $525 million, Teradata Corp. said Wednesday. Aprimo, led by co-founder Bill Godfrey, pulled plans to go public two years ago.
Both Unica and Aprimo are leaders in the realm of marketing software and services.
Robust growth at marketing software maker Aprimo is fueling speculation it is about to make another run at going public, and
co-founder Bill Godfrey said he won’t rule out the possibility of an IPO.
The Indianapolis area is home to myriad unsung entrepreneurs who run interesting companies, make money and create good jobs.
Here are some of them.
