digital innovation

While many parts make up our Indy tech ecosystem, universities across the state offer important pieces toward the development of new and innovative tech. Serving as a cradle for many startups, universities provide connections, talent, support and more to students and researchers launching their ideas. Along with helping new businesses begin, universities help inventors and […]

Two-year-old scale-up Springbuk has quickly grown its client base and employee count, and secured $3.75 million in capital investment to continue fueling that growth. The company continues to expand its health analytics software solution, which helps more than 8,000 employers identify ways to improve employee health and drive down healthcare costs. To help organizations take more control […]

According to the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse, a division of the NIH, more than 90 Americans die after overdosing on opioids every single day. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the total “economic burden” of prescription opioid misuse and abuse alone in the United States is $78.5 billion a year, […]

Brandon Boynton first burst onto the Indy tech scene as a Mira Award nominated high school student scaling his anti-bullying platform company. Entrepreneur magazine profiled the then 17-year-old and his app and Brandon’s eyes were opened to the possibilities of a career in tech as well as to the supportive, encouraging nature of the Indianapolis […]

Millions of products are sold on Amazon.com every day. For the best, most successful retailers who sell on Amazon, the question isn’t what could they sell, but what should they sell that fills a gap in the marketplace and beats competitors to profitable opportunities for sales and revenue growth. Just three weeks ago, Viral Launch, […]

Technological advances like artificial intelligence, augmented reality, the Internet of Things, serverless and microservices architectures, and even trendy blockchain are changing the way we do business dramatically and forever. The world is smaller and more accessible and the same time more complex with an accelerated pace of change difficult to manage. It’s a daunting task […]

What does it take to make a city a “tech city?” According to Cushman & Wakefield’s Tech Cities 1.0 report, a tech city is one that has outperformed other markets by virtually every relevant economic and commercial real estate (CRE) metric, including GDP, jobs, absorption, rents, and more. In these markets, tech plays a larger […]

Industry analysts at Gartner predict that the infrastructure-as-a-service market will grow by more than 38 percent to reach $35 billion or more by the end of the year. Of course, Amazon Web Services (AWS) controls the largest share of this fast-growing market, which may even surpass the already super-fast growth of software-as-a-service over the next […]