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TechPoint Resilience Award Nominees offer inspiration to budding entrepreneurs well beyond the tech sector

Succeeding in business – or launching one – can be a daunting task under the best of circumstances. Individuals who come from marginalized communities, scarce economic means or have experienced trauma, discrimination or health challenges face additional obstacles on their career journey.  The new TechPoint Resilience Award recognizes the relentless spirit of Hoosier tech ecosystem […]
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2024 Mission 41K Impact Network Summit Outlines New Strategies for Statewide Education and Workforce Improvements 

About 200 representatives from Indiana tech employers, community organizations, educational institutions, and the public sector met last week for the 2024 Mission41K Impact Network Summit to continue refining the collaborative effort to grow the state tech workforce.  To reach M41K goals, the state must add 41,000 net new tech workers (plus 14,000 to replace those […]
Mira Awards Nominees

Inspired by Personal Experience, Rising Entrepreneur of the Year Nominees are Improving Patients’ Lives, Teaching Financial Literacy and Improving the Fashion and Translation Services Sectors

If you had any concerns of the vibrancy of Indiana’s tech ecosystem, they should be allayed with just a glance at the more than two dozen nominations made in the 2024 TechPoint Mira Award category for Rising Entrepreneur of the Year. Winnowing that list down to 27 final nominees was, to put it mildly, difficult.   […]

TechPoint’s Dennis Trinkle to Receive Global Leadership in Tech Award  

TechPoint’s Dennis Trinkle to Receive Global Leadership in Tech Award   The award will be presented at the Internet 2.0 Conference in Las Vegas in March 2024.    INDIANAPOLIS (Feb. 28, 2024) — Dennis Trinkle, PhD, TechPoint’s Senior Vice President of Talent, Strategy and Partnerships, will receive the Internet 2.0 Conference Outstanding Leadership Award for helping […]
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Purpose Jobs Recognizes CICP and TechPoint as Top Economic Development Organizations in Emerging Tech Hubs 2024 

DETROIT (Feb. 27, 2024) – Purpose Jobs, the largest community of purpose-driven startup and tech professionals, today announced five Indiana organizations as among its 30 Best Economic Development Organizations in Emerging Tech Hubs in 2024, including the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) and TechPoint.  The list covered organizations serving Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma […]
Mira Awards Nominees

Student Entrepreneur of the Year Mira Awards Nominees Punch Above Their Age Class with a Wide Range of Tech Solutions for the World

TechPoint created the Student Entrepreneur of the Year Mira Award last year to recognize exceptional student startup founders and/or operators who looked outside the box, started something new and generated momentum for their concept.    Kerry Ao was a senior in high school when he took home the inaugural Student of the Year award for […]
Mira Awards Nominees

TechPoint Announces 25th Annual Mira Awards Nominees

INDIANAPOLIS (Feb. 20, 2024) — TechPoint, the industry-led growth initiative for Indiana’s digital innovation economy, today announced the nominees for its 25th annual Mira Awards program presented by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, Salesforce and a host of the state’s most innovative companies, universities and organizations.     “We look forward to celebrating the 25th anniversary of […]
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TechPoint Report: 2023 VC activity in Indiana edges national performance in a sluggish economy 

TechPoint’s annual analysis of the state’s annual venture capital (VC) landscape shows Indiana made slight gains in a slow economy and is poised to take advantage of an expected upturn in 2024. Chelsea Linder, TechPoint’s Vice President for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, points out that in March, world economists feared the collapse of the California’s Silicon Valley […]