Dawn or Doom: an invitation from Purdue President Mitch Daniels
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a message from Purdue University President Mitch Daniels inviting TechPoint members and followers and the tech community at large to attend Dawn or Doom at Purdue on October 3 and 4. The event includes some of the world’s leading futurists and tech thinkers discussing the risks and rewards of the […]
Scott McCorkle’s five tenets of modern software
“Everyone knows Scott McCorkle,” said Eric Prugh, Co-Founder and COO of PactSafe, as he introduced the start of Indy Executive Roundtable, a conversation and discussion event hosted by PactSafe on September 8, 2016. Prugh and McCorkle go way back to their days together at ExactTarget. Prugh got his start at ExactTarget in 2008 and stayed […]
Legal transaction software company Doxly raises $2.2M
Doxly, an Indianapolis technology software company that launched out of High Alpha this past July, today announced they have closed a $2.2 million Series Seed funding round and added Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, as a customer. Doxly will use the capital to scale its technology platform and fuel hiring in product development, engineering, sales and marketing. […]
$100 million fund launched for code school diversity scholarships
The Iron Yard, the largest immersive code school in the U.S., has launched the Tech Opportunity Fund. It’s a collaboration with Code Fellows and Operation HOPE to increase diversity in the tech industry. The idea is that by removing financial barriers and increasing access to tech education for all through core financial literacy and entrepreneurship training. Over the next five years, […]
Is Indianapolis ready for a BSD user group?
In 1969, an important milestone was reached in the history of Computer Science — the birth of the UNIX operating system. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie brought this operating system to life on a PDP-11/20 and wrote it in such a way that it could be easily moved to newer computers as they were developed […]
Amy Oviedo is passionate about talent acquisition in Indy
After graduating from Ball State University with a double major in organizational communication and political science, Evansville, Indiana-born and raised Amy Oviedo moved to Chicago on a whim to start her career in the same city where one of her sisters lived. She was working as a benefits administrator for a company called TruServ, the […]
Fast-growing MOBI to add more than 500 jobs by 2020
Fast-growing managed mobility services (MMS) company MOBI just announced plans to create up to 521 new jobs by 2020. Founded in 2009, the Indiana-based company is experiencing growing demand for its software that centralizes the management of mobile devices, increasing both recurring revenue by 67.8 percent and devices under management by 41 percent in 2015. MOBI will […]
Build Fund strengthens Indy business through mission-driven loans
If you own a business, there will likely be a time when you ask yourself if you need capital to help your business grow and scale. Entrepreneurs ask themselves questions such as “Should I try to completely fund my business myself?” “Do I ask my friends and family to help me out?” “Do I need […]
