Winners will be announced during the awards gala at the JW Marriott Indianapolis on Saturday, April 22, 2023 

INDIANAPOLIS — (Feb. 14, 2023) — TechPoint, the industry-led growth initiative for Indiana’s digital innovation economy and overall tech ecosystem, today announced the nominees for its 24th annual Mira Awards program presented by UKG. The Mira Awards are the state’s largest, best known and most prestigious technology awards, and the annual gala celebrates the “Best of Tech” in Indiana.  

TechPoint received a record-breaking 236 nominations and entries for the awards this year — 38 percent more than the previous highwater mark set in 2018. The 141 entries advancing as 2023 Mira Award nominees include individuals, educators, community organizations, state agencies, investors, entrepreneurs and tech employers with remarkable achievements in the prior year. In aggregate, the company nominees that provided data employ more than 57,000 people in Indiana and represent more than $20.1 billion in annual revenue.  

“The record number of entries and nominations is exciting and shows just how much is going on in Indiana’s digital innovation economy where technology is powering economic growth in our advanced sectors” said TechPoint President and CEO Ting Gootee. “These nominees include familiar tech companies, for sure, but also highly tech-enabled industries like healthcare, life sciences and public safety; advanced manufacturing and logistics; agri-biosciences; banking and finance; academia and more. We’re very pleased to see the amount of cross-sector activity in this age of digital 4.0.” 

Nominees were selected by 56 independent judges who evaluated and ranked the applications. In early March, nominees will present their cases and be interviewed by judging panels held at the new Infosys facility at the former Indianapolis Airport, after which the judges will deliberate and select the winners. Judges include company founders, executives and other community leaders and subject matter experts.  

The 2023 TechPoint Mira Award nominees are: 

DIGITAL INNOVATION AWARDS DIVISION  

Digital Transformation Award – (Focused on corporate teams that are driving digital adoption, recognizing the pervasiveness of technology and its oversized role in an organization’s success regardless of the core business.) 

  • FormAssembly (Bloomington)
  • Herff Jones (Indianapolis)
  • IU Health (Indianapolis)
  • Junior Achievement of Central Indiana (Indianapolis)
  • MISO Partners with Academia using Azure Machine Learning PaaS (Carmel)
  • Modular Devices (Indianapolis)
  • Onebridge (Indianapolis)
  • Parkview Digital Health (Fort Wayne)
  • System Scale & Growth Heroes – From DOS to the Cloud (Indianapolis)
  • V3CONNECT – Immersive Career Pathways Exploration (Indianapolis)
  • Verility (Indianapolis) 

Product Innovation of the Year – (Focused on scientific achievements, tech R&D efforts and other trailblazing discoveries.) 

  • Adipo Therapeutics (Indianapolis)
  • Alleo (Carmel)
  • Baker Hill NextGen® Banker Application (Carmel)
  • Ixana: All-Day Real-Time AI (Indianapolis)
  • Karyosoft  (Carmel)
  • Mentoring Works powered by Civic Champs (Bloomington)
  • Novilytic (West Lafayette)
  • Peak Mind (Indianapolis)
  • Schneider Geospatial (Indianapolis)
  • spokenote (Fishers)
  • Tactile Engineering (Lafayette)
  • Verility (Indianapolis) 

Product Launch of the Year – (Focused on digital product adoption, go-to-market success and rapid customer adoption.) 

  • Alleo (Carmel)
  • Holder (Indianapolis)
  • MyShyft (Indianapolis)
  • OneCause (Carmel)
  • RxLightning (New Albany)
  • The Juice (Indianapolis)
  • Yourco (Indianapolis) 

Disruptor of the Year (Focused on new market creation or reshaping, serving overlooked or discontented customers, challenging incumbents, including new spin-outs or corporate innovation activities.) 

  • Alleo (Carmel)
  • CareAscend (Carmel)
  • Decimal (Indianapolis)
  • Folia (Bloomington)
  • Genie Supply (Bedford)
  • Ixana (Indianapolis)
  • MakeMyMove (Indianapolis)
  • MLLN 3D Printed Shoes (Indianapolis)
  • Motor (Indianapolis)
  • MyShyft (Indianapolis)
  • Remodel Health (Indianapolis)
  • RxLightning (New Albany)
  • Trava Security (Indianapolis)  

Entrepreneurial Service Excellence Award (Focused on accelerators, firms and organizations that have demonstrated a strong commitment to helping Indiana entrepreneurs thrive, providing resources, counsel, connections and more.) 

  • Gener8tor (Indianapolis)
  • Heartland Ventures (Indianapolis-South Bend)
  • NEXT Studios (Indianapolis)
  • Plaka Associates (Indianapolis)
  • Procurement Roundtable (Indianapolis)
  • Rose-Hulman Ventures (Terre Haute)
  • Startup South Bend – Elkhart (South Bend)
  • The Heritage Group Accelerator (Indianapolis)
  • The Mill – Dimension Mill, Inc. (Bloomington)
  • The Startup Ladies (Indianapolis) 

Service Partner of the Year (Focused on professional services firms or internal corporate teams that are creating solutions, products or providing other professional services relating to IT/cyber, design/branding, marketing/PR, legal/accounting, consulting, data science or other.) 

  • Atrium (Indianapolis)
  • BCforward (Indianapolis)
  • CleanSlate Technology Group (Carmel)
  • FullStack (Indianapolis)
  • Glassboard (Indianapolis)
  • Impact Networking (Indianapolis)
  • Indiana Executive Council on Cybersecurity (Indianapolis)
  • Kainos (Indianapolis)
  • KPIT Technologies (Columbus)
  • My IT Indy (Indianapolis)
  • Recruiting Experiences (Indianapolis)
  • Reveal Risk (Carmel)
  • Trava Security (Indianapolis) 

Startup of the Year (Focused on new companies five years old or younger with less than $5 million in revenue that have shown the greatest development, market traction and have the most promising potential for success including impressive year-over-year growth, company performance and management team.) 

  • Alleo (Carmel)
  • DeliverEnd (Indianapolis)
  • Demandwell (Indianapolis)
  • Flamel AI (Bloomington)
  • Holder (Indianapolis)
  • Ixana (Indianapolis)
  • Liftify (Indianapolis)
  • Qualifi (Indianapolis)
  • ShipSigma (Indianapolis)
  • The Engineered Innovation Group (Indianapolis)
  • Trava Security (Indianapolis)
  • Yourco (Indianapolis) 

Scale-up of the Year (Focused on high-growth, innovation-driven, emerging companies older than five years with less than $20 million in revenue that have built up market traction beyond the startup stage, focused on company performance and the management team.) 

  • ConverSight (Indianapolis)
  • Decimal (Indianapolis)
  • Mesh Systems (Carmel)
  • Modular Devices (Indianapolis)
  • MyShyft (Indianapolis)
  • OneCause (Carmel)
  • Sonicu (Greenfield)
  • Zylo (Indianapolis) 

TALENT & PIPELINE AWARDS DIVISION  

Education Impact Award (Recognizes STEM educators, organizations, coaches, programs and platforms that inspire and open doors for learners of any ages, create economic opportunities and have an undeniably positive impact on student achievement and the future workforce.) 

  • Ascend Indiana / Modern Apprenticeship (Indianapolis)
  • Ball State Digital Corps (Muncie)
  • Fight For Life Foundation (Indianapolis)
  • FIRST Indiana Robotics (Indianapolis)
  • Five Star Technology Solutions (Jeffersonville)
  • Franklin College (Franklin)
  • JobWorks Education & Training Systems (Fort Wayne)
  • Junior Achievement of Central Indiana (Indianapolis)
  • Orr Fellowship (Indianapolis)
  • Rupal Thanawala, CEO, Trident Systems (Fishers)
  • Sarah Ackerman, Business & Innovations Teacher, Speedway Schools (Speedway)
  • Tactile Engineering (Lafayette) 

Mission41K Talent Champion Award (Recognizes employers that are adopting skills-based talent management, implementing apprenticeships and more. This award is chosen by TechPoint based on data provided through the Mission41K pledge.) 

  • Allegion (Carmel)
  • FIRST Indiana Robotics (Indianapolis)
  • Indiana Office of Technology (Indianapolis)
  • IU Health (Indianapolis)
  • Eli Lilly and Company (Indianapolis)
  • M2N | Minority Moves Network (Carmel)
  • UKG (Indianapolis)  

Student Entrepreneur of the Year (Recognizes exceptional student startup founders and/or operators of any age and experience who have looked outside the box, started something new, and generated momentum, students must be enrolled in K-12 schools or higher education institutions.) 

  • Kerry Ao (Evansville)
  • David Awonaike and Aman Kikani (Plainfield)
  • Isaiah ‘Izzy’ Branam (Indianapolis)
  • Emmani Ellis (Lake Station)
  • Tamara Miller (Indianapolis)  

Tech Team of the Year (Recognizes small teams within companies or service providers that have achieved a significant milestone in product development, design, discovery, engineering, company advancement or other through demonstrated problem-solving and/or innovation with measured outcomes.) 

  • 3Aware (Indianapolis)
  • Elanco IT (Greenfield)
  • Five Star Technology Solutions (Jeffersonville)
  • hc1 (Indianapolis)
  • Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Indianapolis)
  • Parkview Digital Health Team (Fort Wayne)
  • Pinecone (Indianapolis)
  • Preventia (Indianapolis)
  • Purdue University EASI RIDER Team (West Lafayette)
  • Realync (Carmel)
  • Recruit Rooster (Indianapolis)
  • State of Indiana, Bureau of Developmental Disabilities Services, Systems Consolidation Project Team (Indianapolis)
  • State of Indiana, Department of Child Services IT (Indianapolis)
  • Trava Security (Indianapolis)  

Rising Entrepreneur Award (Recognizes exceptional non-student startup founders or operators of any age and experience who have looked outside the box, started something new and generated momentum.) 

  • Drew Beechler, Co-founder and CEO, Holder (Indianapolis)
  • Ravi Bhatt, Co-founder and CEO, Folia (Bloomington)
  • Jessica Bussert, Founder and CEO, Wave Therapeutics (Nashville, Ind.)
  • Megan Cox, Founder, Genie Supply (Bedford)
  • Brandon Fischer, Founder and CEO, Alleo (Carmel)
  • Liane Hart, Co-founder and CEO, Verility (Indianapolis)
  • Darye Henry, Founder and CEO, AfterSchool HQ (Fishers)
  • Jake Miller, CEO, The Engineered Innovation Group (Indianapolis)
  • Cory Nation, President, Embark EMR (Indianapolis)
  • Rajesh Perianayagam, Founder and CEO, Karyosoft (Carmel)
  • Julia Regan, Co-founder and CEO, RxLightning (New Albany)
  • David Schleppenbach, CEO, Tactile Engineering (Lafayette) 

Exceptional Employer Award (Recognizes tech companies that are developing talent; advancing DE&I; cultivating workplace culture; and making a positive impact in the community.) 

  • Alleo (Carmel)
  • Atrium (Indianapolis)
  • BLASTmedia (Indianapolis)
  • Celigo (Indianapolis)
  • CNO Financial (Carmel)
  • eimagine technology group (Indianapolis)
  • Five Star Technology Solutions (Jeffersonville)
  • Gener8tor (Indianapolis)
  • Mesh Systems (Carmel)
  • Qualifi (Indianapolis)
  • Trava Security (Indianapolis)
  • WSI Technologies (Indianapolis) 

In addition to the 14 adjudicated categories, four additional special industry recognition awards will be presented. They include the TechPoint Foundation for Youth Bridge Builder Award and the Nextech K-12 Computer Science Teacher of the Year, which both feature a $1,000 grant. The Deal of the Year and the TechPoint Trailblazer Award are selected by the executive committee of TechPoint’s board of directors. 

Tickets to the Mira Awards gala will go on sale in March pending availability. The event has a strong track record for being sold out weeks in advance. A limited number of sponsorship opportunities, which include gala tickets, are also available for the event. For more information, view the 2023 Mira Awards Sponsor Prospectus. 

EDITOR’S NOTE: This release has been updated to include 11 nominees that were previously left off due to a process flaw. 

ABOUT TECHPOINT: 

TechPoint is the industry-led growth initiative for Indiana’s digital innovation economy and overall tech ecosystem. The team is focused on working with public, private and industry partners to expand tech talent pipeline, enhance resource connectivity for enterprise organizations and startups alike, and elevate the industry by activating the community and amplifying stories of success. For more information, please visit www.techpoint.org.