Articles by Cheryl Reed

Today the TechPoint team announced a strategic partnership with the Markle Foundation, which will be a key element of its plan to inclusively grow the Indiana tech workforce by an additional 41,000 workers by 2030.  “The Markle Foundation, through its Rework America Alliance, is doing phenomenal work to bring more people, especially people of color, […]

One-day event serves as official launch of effort to create 41K new Indiana tech jobs  TechPoint will host a one-day kickoff conference — Launch Mission41K — where it will work with up to 250 early adopters of the organization’s new Mission41K movement: a plan to grow the state’s tech workforce by 41,000 by 2030 and […]

TechPoint’s Senior Relationship Manager Roger Shuman is about to get a whole lot busier, and that’s a good thing for Indiana startup companies.  Shuman, who leads most of TechPoint’s investor-startup connection activities, has been tasked with implementing a new, free service called the Indiana VCI Marketplace. It’s designed to increase use of the state’s Venture […]

For 13 years, the Venture Club of Indiana has worked to attract investors interested in funding Indiana startup companies at its annual Innovation Showcase. The 2022 iteration of that event partners with TechPoint, 50 South Capital, which manages Indiana’s Next Level Fund, and Elevate Ventures to offer “(Ind)Venture.”  By partnering, the similarly focused groups will […]

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation threw a huge party in Indianapolis last weekend, and everybody came. Seriously. The Excel spreadsheet of attendees went on for 20 pages. There were ambassadors, consulates general, federal agency heads. The governor. Mayors. Legislators. Company CEOs. University representatives. And if you’ve heard of a global—or local—tech or tech-enabled company, they […]

For almost a decade, TechPoint has been connecting Indiana tech employers with tech- and business-skilled talent, particularly through its Xtern program, which serves up top college students for internships and jobs. Armed with a three-year, $750,000 grant from Microsoft Philanthropies, TechPoint will expand its impact by creating new tech career pathways for upskilling and career-changing […]

Veteran investment capital leader succeeds Mike Langellier. Ting Gootee, a key founding executive and chief investment officer for Elevate Ventures, has been named the new President and CEO of TechPoint. TechPoint and the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) made the announcement today following a national search to replace Mike Langellier, who had led the nonprofit, […]

Indiana is a national leader in advanced manufacturing and logistics but staying at the top of the heap will require companies to embrace technology at a faster rate to meet the demands of the fourth industrial revolution, aka “Industry 4.0”. The term refers to a new wave of technologies, like Internet of Things products, big […]