Articles by Cheryl Reed

West Lafayette, Ind.-based Ixana, inventor of a new wireless technology with the potential to transform human computer interaction, won the award for Startup of the year during TechPoint’s 24th annual Mira Awards gala honoring the best of tech in Indiana. Ixana, an Indianapolis company that seems to have solved a billion-dollar problem that has vexed […]

Indianapolis-based startup accelerator gener8tor won the Entrepreneurial Service Excellence Award during TechPoint’s 24th annual Mira Awards gala honoring the best of tech in Indiana. Startup accelerator gener8tor grants access to opportunity regardless of race, place, or gender and is particularly focused on shrinking the equity gap for founders who are women of color, whose presence […]

Indianapolis-based on-demand candidate screening platform Qualifi won the Exceptional Employer Award during TechPoint’s 24th annual Mira Awards gala honoring the best of tech in Indiana. Launching a startup is daunting task. Creating a successful company is even harder, and when it’s one of just 2.4 percent of Black-owned businesses in the U.S., it’s easy to […]

Indianapolis-based hardware product development company Glassboard won the award for Service Partner of the Year during TechPoint’s 24th annual Mira Awards gala honoring the best of tech in Indiana. Glassboard, a hardware product development company, helps solopreneurs, startups, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies punch above their weight class and out-innovate their competition. The team […]

Evansville, Ind.-based Intertwined CEO and Co-founder Kerry Ao won the award for Student Entrepreneur of the Year during TechPoint’s 24th annual Mira Awards gala honoring the best of tech in Indiana. When you’re an Indiana high school senior and France’s President Emmanuel Macron applauds one of your research papers, you might be forgiven for focusing […]

Fort Wayne, Ind.-based JobWorks Education & Training Systems (JETS) won the Education Impact Award during TechPoint’s 24th annual Mira Awards gala honoring the best of tech in Indiana. Tech positions in Indiana and around the world are in white-hot demand and supply is woefully short, which is why TechPoint launched its Mission41K initiative in 2022, […]

New Albany, Ind.-based RxLightning, an innovator in providing digital solutions for specialty medication access, won the award for Product Launch of the year during TechPoint’s 24th annual Mira Awards gala honoring the best of tech in Indiana. In 2022, RxLightning took home the Mira Awards for Startup of the Year and Tech Product of the […]

Lafayette, Ind.-based Tactile Engineering, inventor of the Cadence electronic braille tablet, won the award for Product Innovation of the year during TechPoint’s 24th annual Mira Awards gala honoring the best of tech in Indiana. Against a backdrop of nearly 30 years of consistent warnings that their concept was “impossible,” to achieve, the Tactile Engineering team […]