Articles by Cheryl Reed

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 […]

The new year is upon us and it’s time to update your calendar. Trust us, these are the Indiana tech-related events you’ll most want—dare we say need—to attend, so it’s best to already have them down in digital ink.  Below are our top picks based on current information. That’s not to say there aren’t other […]

TechPoint’s latest Pitch Night was sprinkled with applause throughout the four founders’ presentations, but the loudest and longest sustained support came when the launch of the Indiana Founders Network was announced.  More than 30 founders had already signed up to join the Founders Network by Index press time, a good portion of them coming during […]

Celebrating its silver anniversary next year, TechPoint’s Mira Awards gala—known as the “Oscars of Tech in Indiana”—will be held on Friday, April 26, 2024, at the Old National Centre in Indianapolis. TechPoint and its sponsors and partners will take over the entire venue, including an awards show in the Murat Theatre followed by a community […]

Spend a few hours with the team at Republic Airways, one of the largest regional airlines in the world, at its new Aviation Campus in Carmel and you can’t help but learn a few things about the company and the industry. Of course, it’s an airline; that’s spelled out right there in its name. But […]

A 2013 TechPoint Index article made note of a “watershed event that will forever mark time in the history of Hoosier business,” predicting it would be viewed as “the genesis of a new era in the tech sector.”  That moment was the announcement of Salesforce’s $2.5 billion acquisition of ExactTarget.   It’s still the biggest exit […]

When a majority of the Indiana tech community adopted remote work in 2020, software product design and development firm SEP started building a world-class headquarters in Westfield that would more than double its space.   In 2021, when many of those companies had decided to go permanently remote or hybrid, SEP brought its full team back […]

The National Skills Coalition (NSC), which fights for inclusive, high-quality skills training to enable people to access a better life and to help local businesses see sustained growth, is asking for-profit businesses in Indiana – and across America – to sign a letter to raise awareness of the need to close a national digital skills […]