Innovation

Investing in startups has been the vocation or avocation exclusively of wealthy Americans since the Great Depression. Rules requiring a net worth of $1 million or an annual income of $200,000 for two consecutive years safeguarded the public from 100% of the risks that became all too real in October 1929. Unfortunately, for 85 years […]

TechPoint, Indiana’s technology growth initiative, has announced that the angel funding organization HALO Investor Group surpassed the $20 million mark for investments in Hoosier tech startups over the past five years. The group reached this significant milestone with four investments totaling nearly $1.5 million during the first two quarters of 2014. HALO Investor Group is […]

Christopher Day has officially transitioned his role at Navidar Group to an advisory capacity — the investment banking firm he started with his brother five years ago — and he's itching to pick up where he left off, as one of Indy's prolific and effective serial entrepreneurs. "I really didn't mean to but I became […]

If you had to guess how much money parents spend on private sports lessons for kids in America, would you come up with $6 billion? The former athletes who founded bookacoach saw the potential for a new platform to serve this market — connecting parents with the right coaches for their children — and their […]

Those of you who know me know that while I love a new tech story, I also love a good history. Here is a local story that combines the two. The new tech story: While meeting with Brad Bostic, CEO of hc1.com, I learned that hc1 had formed a recent partnership with Beckman Coulter. hc1 […]