After InXInnovate LTD suddenly cancelled its local event this fall, the Venture Club of Indiana was forced to hustle to re-schedule their annual Innovation Showcase. With the help of The Heritage Group and other corporate supporters, it’s now set for October.
Jonathan Partlow is founder of Fishers-based ag-tech company Aggressively Organic, a company focused on ending food insecurity by innovating agricultural practices.
The new tech venue in Fishers gives companies that specialize in connecting devices to the internet the access they need to hardware, talent and capital.
After a period of rapid growth for The Speak Easy, Julie Heath wants to refocus its energies on membership development and providing startups in central Indiana the resources necessary to grow.
Many successful entrepreneurs provided good advice early in my career, but I found a surprising number provided absolutely poor advice.
In 2016, Purdue University students Candice Xie and Edwin Tan were looking for an affordable, easy-to-use means to get around campus. So they started a company to fill the need.
The second quarter is off to a fast start, a sign that this could be a strong year for raising capital in the state.
Twenty-five years after developer Turner Woodard purchased the old Stutz factory complex at 10th Street and Capitol Avenue, the sprawling facility hosts 200-plus tenants.
The Combine’s goal is to be “at the intersection of community, capital, creativity, culture and code,” said its leader.
Lisa Sprunger founded frozen-soup company Urban Ladle in the kitchen of her north-side home, nurturing it into a line of seven frozen soups sold at various, mostly Indiana, retailers.
After years of dreaming and planning, the pair opened the brewery in January in the historic Whitestown High School gym.
VeriCite Inc., a Fishers-based maker of plagiarism-detection software, is being acquired by Turnitin, a Silicon Valley-based leader in the plagiarism-detection industry. Turnitin officials said they will maintain and grow its local presence.
Gener8tor, which takes ownership stakes in startups in return for providing intensive guidance, will launch a free program in Indianapolis this spring that will provide coaching for seven weeks to five promising Hoosier companies.
FlexePark has five lots—three in Broad Ripple, one in Mass Ave and one in Bloomington—that are available to parkers for $4 to $10 during evening and overnight hours.
Thanks to a strong fourth quarter with a $40 million deal, the amount of venture capital invested in Hoosier firms surged 50 percent in 2017 over the previous year.
Will Pfaffenberger’s passion project, featuring shows made up on the spot, is slated to debut in February.
Gov. Eric Holcomb’s Next Level Trust Fund, which designates $250 million for venture capital, also made our list.
The Kauffman Index of Growth Entrepreneurship says the area now ranks 10th among the 40 largest metro areas when it comes to what Kauffman calls “growth entrepreneurship.”
Design on Tap, which just moved to the Station Place building downtown, uses a flat organizational structure to ensure each employee is valued equally.
What started as an idea to provide space for entrepreneurs to work and grow their businesses in Fishers has ballooned into a statewide brand.
