Governor Holcomb awards Indiana’s highest civilian honor to tech leader Mike Langellier
The 35-year-old entrepreneur and visionary has served as president and CEO of TechPoint since December 2012, following the acquisition of his personal finance and banking software startup. In a surprise announcement during the 18th annual TechPoint Mira Awards on Saturday, Governor Eric Holcomb honored TechPoint President and CEO Mike Langellier with the Sagamore of the […]
Next Level Indiana Fund a BIG legislative victory for tech
As Jared Council points out in his IBJ.com story today — Tech leaders say they’re pleased with Legislative session — the tech community in Indiana just scored a BIG victory by getting the Next Level Indiana Fund included in the state’s budget with the help and support of Governor Holcomb and many supportive legislators. The […]
Sales Bootcamp prepares new class for fast-growing tech careers
The second 6-week Sales Bootcamp just wrapped up operations at the end of March, which means area tech companies now have a great group of talented, up-and-coming new sales professionals who are generating leads, bringing in revenue, and growing our tech ecosystem. TechPoint launched the inaugural Sales Bootcamp in June 2016 with 17 new grads and […]
Appirio is holding on to and enhancing its brand and culture
Cloud services provider Appirio relocated its headquarters from San Francisco to Indianapolis in 2015, celebrated 10 years as a cutting-edge, fast-growing company in 2016, and finished out the year getting acquired by India-based Wipro for $500 million in November. Over just a handful of years, Appirio locally grew from a small group of Indianapolis-based remote workers […]
Winning Mira Awards helped BidPal attract talent and capital
Fundraising software provider BidPal has been fortunate to win three Mira awards since the company’s founding 10 years ago: the Information Technology Gazelle award in 2011, the 2013 Mobile Technology Excellence and Innovation award and the 2013 Emerging Technology Company of the Year award. Since winning these awards, BidPal solutions have helped nearly 2,800 organizations […]
A brief introduction to network science math in marketing
In this Chief Marketing Technologist Blog (chiefmartec.com) guest post by Tyler Foxworthy, chief scientist at DemandJump, several fields of math are connected to marketing challenges that are being addressed with artificial intelligence. Editor Scott Brinkler also added several links to Wikipedia pages for readers who want to geek out like him on this dense and challenging […]
Winning a Mira Award helped DemandJump grab attention from investors, media
DemandJump was in the process of raising a Series Seed round with the goal of raising $1.5 million when they brought home not just one, but two “Best of Tech in Indiana” Mira Awards last year. The fast-growing, Indianapolis-based scale-up company ultimately oversubscribed the Series Seed round and successfully closed $1.8 million in capital. “Winning […]
Biggest Tech Announcements and Trends of 2016
There’s no doubt that 2016 had its fair share of big news stories, perhaps more than its fair share. The tech community, too, made some big splashes and brought the fast-growing sector to the forefront a number of times. Here are some of the stories that stood out this year. Real Estate Announcing Salesforce Tower […]
