2026 Innovation Issue: Checking in with 2015’s Champions of Innovation
Eleven years later, IBJ checks back in with some of those innovators to see what they’re up to — and where they are — now.
Innovation Issue
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‘Smart’ device growth has been slower than once expected
Technology giant Intel once predicted that by 2020, the number of smart device would grow to 200 billion or about 26 smart devices for every person on Earth. But the number today is quite a bit lower.
2026 Innovation Issue: IoT Lab in Fishers evolves as ‘smart’ devices change
Seventeen companies and organizations are members with room left for only a few more.
2026 Innovation Issue: With coding academies gone, what comes next?
In Indiana, gone are Eleven Fifty Academy and Kenzie Academy. National coding bootcamps like Bloom Institute of Technology, Hack Reactor and Triology have significantly scaled back or totally restructured in recent years.
2026 Innovation Issue: Indy police embrace new tools, implement privacy guardrails at real-time crime center
At IMPD’s real-time crime center, analysts have access to live feeds, updates and search options from more than 300 license plate readers, 160 IMPD-owned cameras, about 150 cameras outside of businesses.
2026 Innovation Issue: EV slowdown forces Indiana battery plants to pivot
Mayor Tyler Moore said the project is progressing more slowly than initially expected, but Samsung’s involvement has allowed the first battery plant to pivot production to other applications and industries that rely on lithium-ion batteries.
2026 Innovation Issue: Hype sank NFT market
When IBJ’s Innovation Issue surveyed the NFT landscape in 2022, NFT collectibles had accounted for $41 billion in spending a year earlier.
2026 Innovation Issue: Startups to watch — progress, pauses and partnerships
The 20 companies IBJ featured in last year’s Innovation Issue all appear to still be in business, and some have introduced new products, raised money or made other moves.
2026 Innovation Issue: Great Indiana innovations
In the first Innovation Issue in 2015, IBJ featured several Indiana innovations. We’re revisiting some of those and introducing a few more worth mentioning.
2026 Innovation Issue: Don Brown launches Bioscope.AI
The serial entrepreneur also launched the affiliated Longevity Today, a website that identifies, processes and summarizes life sciences research and offers information to the public through AI personas.
2025 Innovation Issue: VC by the numbers
Venture capital is the lifeblood of most startups and later-stage companies in growth mode. But much of the nation’s VC funding is concentrated in just a few places, which experts say makes it harder to raise money in the Midwest. Across the country, venture funds have raised less money since pandemic highs, which means the […]
Startups to watch: Opendate
The Indianapolis-based startup is advertised as an all-in-one platform that offers tools in the three areas of scheduling concerts, processing tickets and marketing events.
Startups to watch: Edge Sound Research
Since establishing significant operations in Indianapolis in late 2023, business has been booming for immersive audio company Edge Sound Research.
Startups to watch: BioBond Adhesives Inc.
Founder: Generational Food Rural Partner Fund, part of Big Idea Ventures Established: 2023 Top executive: Marc McConnaughey, CEO Equity raised: $6 million seed round, all from Generational Food Rural Partner Fund 2024 revenue: none Projected 2025 revenue: $3 million Employees: 14 Location: Westpoint (near Lafayette) Affiliations: BioBond uses licensed patent portfolios from Purdue University and […]
Startups to watch: 3Aware
3Aware is a technology company that helps medical-device makers generate the clinical evidence they need for development and approval.
Startups to watch: Verility Inc.
Founders: Liane Hart, Brian Kopp, Scott Baxter, Hadi Shafiee Established: 2018 Top executives: Liane Hart, CEO Brian Kopp, chief financial officer Hadi Shafiee, inventor and technical adviser Scott Baxter, chief product officer Equity raised: $100,000 pre-seed round, $100,000 seed round, $4 million Series A round 2024 revenue: none Projected 2025 revenue: none Employees: 4 Location: […]
Startups to watch: Tenon Software
Tenon is a marketing-automation and marketing-work-management platform built natively on ServiceNow.
Startups to watch: Backstroke
Backstroke provides a platform that helps business-to-consumer companies use generative artificial intelligence to create marketing messages for email, text and mobile notifications.
Startups to watch: Precision Care Technologies
Precision Care’s technology provides physical therapists, chiropractors, athletic trainers and others with precise, quantifiable data related to soft-tissue manipulation.
Startups to watch: Aerovy
Founder: Nick Gunady Established: 2023 Top executives: Nick Gunady, CEO Thomas Chen, chief technology officer Daniel DeLaurentis, chief scientist Equity raised: $1 million pre-seed round 2024 revenue: $227,000 Projected 2025 revenue: $1.1 million Employees: 5 Location: West Lafayette Affiliation: Purdue University Patents: The company’s technology is based on research by founder Nick Gunady with a […]