Indiana innovation

A profound passion to help charities do more and the supportive tech community in Indianapolis inspired and enabled founders Walle Mafolasire and Tayo Ademuyiwa, M.D. to create the charitable donation app Givelify. Since launching the public beta a couple of months ago, Givelify has raised nearly  $1 million for about 200 churches across the nation, […]

As a new business with a small team, startups often face the conflict of too many competing priorities. Producing sales collateral, managing campaigns, updating the website, tweeting, pinning, and “liking” vie for our limited time and attention. This endless list of “what else can we do?” often leaves startup marketing teams running in circles. Startup […]

The cyber Security research organization, Emerging Threats, has quickly grown from an online open source community, to a world-leading provider of malware and malicious threat intelligence with its commercialized products — ETPro Ruleset and IQRisk Suite. Backed by Indiana-based HALO Capital Group and Elevate Ventures, Emerging Threats is helping enterprises protect private and public networks […]

Indy-based Salesvue has secured $3 million in venture financing in a round led by St. Louis-based Cultivation Captial. It’s the first time the venture capital firm has invested outside of St. Louis. From the press release — Salesvue said Tuesday that it has secured $3 million in funding. Cultivation Capital led the round. In conjunction […]

You read about Gusto here the day the email app launched with VERGE. Then you learned about their $1.3 million investment led by Elevate Ventures. Today, Gusto just leaped into the national spotlight with a stellar review by TechCrunch writer Sarah Perez. READ MORE about Gusto in the TechPoint profile LEARN ABOUT Gusto's $1.3 million […]

Gusto, the iPhone app that organizes every email, file and photo you've ever sent or received into a visibly simpler, easily searchable, unified inbox, today announced it has secured $1.3 million in venture financing in a round led by Elevate Ventures and is now available (for free) in the iTunes App Store. CLICK HERE TO READ THE GUSTO […]

It’s not every day you get the chance to invent your own marketplace with built-in potential customers like Xerox, McDonald’s, the U.S. Army, Deloitte, John F. Kennedy Airport, and Panasonic to name a few. But wouldn’t you jump at that chance if you had the idea to bring a more flexible and dynamic delivery model […]

Working in and around the technology sector in Indiana for the past 15 years, one thing has always been true. Everybody needs funding, and not enough people know where or how to get it. However, the roster of homegrown entrepreneurs with successful track records has increased at least ten-fold since the late 90s. Battle-tested leaders […]