hc1.com partnership with Beckman Coulter reminds me of how Silicon Valley got started

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 […]

Indigo BioSystems secures $8.5 million in venture funding

Indigo BioSystems announces the closing of its $8.5 million Series B round of funding to continue growth, and appoints Dr. Randall K. Julian Jr. as CEO. Indigo Biosystems (Indigo), the industry leading data review software developer for clinical, reference, and research laboratories, announced the closing of its $8.5 million round of funding today. The investment […]

Givelify app makes it easier to donate and raises more money for charities

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, […]

Agile Marketing for Startups: How to Get Started

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 […]

Emerging Threats fights malware and malicious online attacks with intelligence

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 […]

Salesvue closes $3 million financing to increase sales team productivity

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 […]

Indy-based Gusto email app leaps into national spotlight with TechCrunch review

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 Secures $1.3 Million Investment Led by Elevate Ventures; Now Available for Download in iTunes App Store

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 […]