Innovation

Nine years ago, Village Capital was founded to address the lack of funding for tech solutions geared to solving global issues. This year, they made a stop in Indianapolis and teamed up with local investors and industry stakeholders to educate their portfolio startups.

Innovatemap's Tina Hafer details the field of product marketing and shares thoughts from other tech leaders on how businesses can create the framework to best activate product marketing professionals.

In its first 12 months of operation, Notre Dame's IDEA Center launched 27 startups and recently announced a $22 million seed fund for faculty, student, alumni and community startups.

Two years ago, Joshua Hall toured the then brand new offices of sports and fitness software company Upper Hand and met all five employees. Today, Upper Hand employs 25 people and they are currently building out their new headquarters to accommodate triple-digit growth.

Torchlite, the platform for finding and managing on-demand digital marketing talent, announced today it attracted $3 million in funding to expand its tech-enabled network of digital marketing freelancers. Since its launch in late 2015 by former Apple VP Susan Marshall, Torchlite has raised a total of $5.5 million, secured over 100 new clients in 2017, and doubled revenue from 2016 to 2017.