Indiana innovation

Technology is playing an ever-increasing role in the world of agriculture and food systems. However, the current crop of Indiana tech companies making a noticeable impact in these areas might surprise you because they aren’t the conventional farming products and services you might think of when it comes to agriculture. “I’m seeing companies coming out of […]

It’s been 18 years since Paroon Chada started OnBoard in Lafayette, Indiana, while he was still a student at Purdue University. As of June this year, the fast-growing software scale-up company was the leading board management and intelligence platform with its headquarters in Indianapolis, 140+ employees and more than 2,500 customers around the world. In […]

The unprecedented events of 2020 revealed gaps in consumer services and infrastructure that were either unknown or under-appreciated until the pandemic forced them to the fore. For example, grocery delivery and pick-up company Instacart seemed like a solution in search of a problem that was losing $25 million a month prior to the pandemic. In […]

If you were a parent trying to work while keeping your kids on track educationally in 2020, please take a bow. You’re amazing. You’re an inspiration. And you’re probably tired. Few companies understand the efforts you made last year better than Five Star Technology Solutions. And they’re here to help you, other Hoosier parents and […]

It’s been three years since FGX International acquired Greenwood, Ind.-based One Click, one of the country’s first successful online retailers. Team members have internally been working to adopt the new name, but it’s been only recently that they rebranded to the world. The company has also embraced its role as the international conglomerate’s North American […]

Just as summer was officially starting last month, Indianapolis-based Greenlight Guru announced that the fast-growing software scale-up had inked a deal with JMI Equity for the largest single investment ever in an Indiana tech company. Greenlight Guru is known for pioneering a new category of quality management software specifically designed to boost the success of […]

A little more than five years ago, Eric Christopher, Ryan Carroll, Cory Wheeler and Ben Pippenger took an idea to High Alpha’s new venture studio. They noticed the proliferation of software as a service (SaaS) subscriptions happening at organizations—lots of SaaS applications were being purchased by business units and employees, with seemingly no one keeping […]

At the mid-way point in 2021, Indiana has already more than doubled the dollar amount from capital investments and grants received last year by local tech companies and the state has easily surpassed the $358 million high-mark, which made 2019 a record-breaking tech investment year. Those dollars don’t even include the $240 million raised in […]