$1.3 Million Lilly Endowment Grant to Launch Techpoint’s Ultimate Tech Internship Experience

CICP Foundation has received a $1.3 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support the Xtern program at Techpoint, Indiana’s technology growth initiative. The program attracts top university talent and immerses them in a one-of-a-kind summer internship experience. TechPoint is using the grant to launch the Xtern program, which the nonprofit economic development organization promotes […]

‘Buy Local’ tech list is the start of something big

Convincing Indiana CIOs to buy technology from Indiana tech companies isn't as difficult as it once was. In fact, many CIOs are eager to "buy local" and put their money where their mouth is as long as the products and services are equal to or superior than out-of-state tech. The biggest obstacle to buying local […]

RepuCare Onsite acquisition highlights value of big data, need for tech-skilled workforce

RepuCare Onsite, a, Indianapolis-based health and wellness company that also operates onsite health clinics for employers, announced yesterday that they bought Spectrum Health Services, a company that provides complementary services and also operates clinics. The interesting tech connection, says deal advisor Brian Modiano, is that combining Spectrum's 17 years of data with RepuCare's 18 years […]

Indy’s tech ecosystem is admired, aspired to by St. Louis leaders

Sometimes it takes a view from outside of our own community to remind us just how far we've come — to take a moment and acknowledge the enormity of Indy's tech sector successes over the past few years. Last week I received a call from a reporter at the St. Louis Dispatch in Missouri. He […]

By way of IndyXmas, Austin Stoltzfus joins the ExactTarget team as a UX developer

From Pennsylvania Amish country to Upland, Indiana to Florida to Turkey to Indianapolis (and lots of places in between), Austin Stoltzfus developed a love for computer science, stories (and the people who tell them) and true entrepreneurial spirit. After he graduated from Taylor University in 2013 with a  degree in Computer Science – New Media/Systems, […]