digital innovation

On March 7, 2018, Colorado-based Conga announced plans to acquire Octiv, a marketing Software-as-a-Service platform that revolutionizes web-based document solutions. Conga’s acquisition of Octiv will enhance the breadth and depth of the Conga Suite, which the company says is considered the industry’s most comprehensive Intelligent Document Automation Suite. Octiv will extend the Conga Suite by providing the ability to […]

There’s an emerging multi-billion dollar industry that marketers and sales pros are already allocating budgets to — even if they don’t quite know what to call it yet. Sending direct mail and dimensional packages (often items with a FedEx label) are bread and butter tactics for marketers and sales teams, but integrating them with digital […]

Getting your product to market before your competitors is increasingly challenging in today’s environment. Ironically, it becomes more difficult the more successful your company is. The larger your business practice and footprint, the more red tape you often encounter when trying to innovate with new ideas. Enter Tom Ward, who discovered Rose-Hulman Ventures four years […]

As a somewhat in-the-know tech insider, I’m generally aware of the big players in my city. However, following a recent interview with executives at Allegion and a visit to their Americas regional headquarters and new technology center, I discovered I was missing out on one of the coolest (and largest) tech companies in the area! […]

A nearly $225,000 grant provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will give The Bee Corp a new path to grow their research. While the Series A round of funding the company closed last September supports their operations and other growth needs, this Phase I grant focuses specifically on using data science to build research […]

Counterpart is a custom software solutions company that takes its name to heart. They don’t build extravagant enterprise applications when a client needs something much more streamlined, and they refer about a million dollars worth of work to other local businesses every year because they care more about “fit” than financials. Relationships and the work […]

In one of the largest single investments in an Indiana tech company over the past couple of years, Springbuk announced today that the two-year-old company has secured $20 million in Series B financing. According to company officials, the new capital infusion will drive growth and expansion with a heavy emphasis on product innovation, data operations, […]

An incredible Indianapolis tech success story started a decade ago when BidPal launched its mobile bidding solution that replaced paper bid sheets for silent auctions with handheld devices and local mobile networks. With more than 13,000 fundraising events and $1.2 billion — you read that right, “billion” — charitable dollars raised on behalf of nonprofit […]