Articles by Roger Shuman

The fourth quarter of 2017 finished the year strong with over $105 million in publicly announced investments and acquisitions involving Indiana tech and tech-enabled companies. This funding fueled a year rich with venture capital investments and acquisitions. $105,830,000 was pumped into Indiana tech companies from firms and investors located all throughout the country — a […]

Jackie DiMonte serves as a venture analyst at Hyde Park Venture Partners where she spends her time evaluating companies, performing deal work and coordinating the firm’s data and reporting processes. With headquarters in Chicago and Indianapolis, the firm has a number of Indiana tech companies in their portfolio including Bolstra, DemandJump, Vibenomics and Sigstr. We asked Jackie, a Sr. Associate based in the Chicago office, a few questions about what it means to be a venture analyst.

Located six blocks south of Monument Circle and nestled next to Rolls-Royce’s downtown campus, Union 525 opened its doors at the end of 2016 as the new home to a variety of tech startups and emerging scale-ups. A number of educational institutions that support the future and continued development of the tech sector in Central […]

As the tech ecosystem in Indiana continues to mature, it’s not uncommon to read stories about scale-up companies like Sigstr raising $5 million in a recent Series A capital raise, or SmarterHQ raising an additional $13 million in venture financing as part of an overall $33.6 million dollar raise. The days of venture capital activity staying […]

MOBI’s second annual Untethered Summit, held October 3-5 at The Alexander in downtown Indianapolis, is one of the up and coming national tech events that happens to be designed and developed right here in Indy by our own tech ecosystem. MOBI is an award winning Indianapolis technology company whose solutions provide customers with software and […]

The third quarter of 2017 brought more activity and a much larger overall investment in Indiana tech companies than the previous two quarters. Below is a list of public investments and acquisitions involving Indiana technology companies that occurred in the third quarter of 2017. Archway Technology Partners LLC, an investment management software company based in […]

While access to angel and seed-level capital resources for tech startups in Indiana has improved significantly over the past five years, securing additional funding for those same companies as they scale up continues to be a challenge. There is a handful of venture capital firms in Indiana that can help these companies take the next […]