startup

Two Founders’ Journeys in gBETA Indiana Industry 4.0 and how to balance demand, supply & funding  

By Rod Baradaran and Scott Willson  We first crossed paths in early 2024 as startup founders participating in gBETA Indiana’s Industry 4.0 acceleration program led by Davide Dantonio, the director of gBETA – gener8tor.  Our companies are rScan, a reverse logistics startup, and Motoring Labs, which specializes in computer vision technology for trucking fleets. Despite […]

TechPoint Founders Network Expanding to Fort Wayne 

INDIANAPOLIS (March 26, 2025) — TechPoint, the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center (NIIC) and Fort Wayne Tech today announced that TechPoint’s Indiana Founders Network is expanding to Fort Wayne.  “We are so pleased to expand this support to entrepreneurs in northeastern Indiana,” said Chelsea Linder, TechPoint’s vice president for innovation and entrepreneurship. “Founders’ Network gatherings in […]

Meet the Founder: Tiffney Vivo, CEO of Therapprove  

By Mary Dougherty  This is the first in a semi-regular series that introduces the TechPoint ecosystem to new founders, their companies and the challenges they faced in getting their company to market.,  Like many founders, profound personal experience led Tiffney Vivo to establish her company, Therapprove. In her case, it was dealing with the unnecessarily […]

TechPoint Announces its 2025 Mira Awards Winners 

Indiana tech innovators and talent development leaders hail from Bloomington, Carmel, Evansville, Gary, Indianapolis, Muncie, South Bend and West Lafayette    INDIANAPOLIS (February 27, 2025) —  TechPoint, the industry-led growth initiative for Indiana’s digital innovation economy, today honored 20 Indiana tech sector innovators and tech talent development leaders at the 2025 Mira Awards gala, commonly known […]

TechPoint Announces 2025 Mira Award Deal of the Year

INDIANAPOLIS (February 24, 2025) — TechPoint, the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership’s industry-led growth initiative for Indiana’s digital innovation economy, today announced the 2025 Mira Awards Deal of the Year: Remodel Health, a leading provider of individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements for brokers.  Based in Indianapolis, Remodel Health raised more than $100 million in growth funding from Oak HC/FT with participation from Hercules Capital in December 2024. The funding targets Remodel’s continued expansion and […]

TechPoint Announces 2025 Mira Gala Entertainment 

INDIANAPOLIS (February 17, 2025) — TechPoint, the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership’s industry-led growth initiative for Indiana’s digital innovation economy, today announced the entertainers who will perform at the 2025 Mira Awards, known as “The Oscars of Indiana Tech.”   “The award winners are the stars of the Mira show. To celebrate their success, we are […]

TechPoint Announces 2025 Mira Award Sponsors 

TechPoint, the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership’s industry-led growth initiative for Indiana’s digital innovation economy, announced and thanked the organizations and Indiana tech sector leaders sponsoring the 2025 Mira Awards, commonly known as “The Oscars of Indiana Tech.”   “We could not offer Indiana’s biggest night for tech and innovation without help from our amazing ecosystem,” said TechPoint President and CEO Ting […]

Investors are Actively Seeking to Fund Indiana Tech Companies: What (and Who) You Need to Know to Win Support 

Indiana’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has garnered significant attention from venture capital (VC) firms across the country, bringing in about $2.8 billion since 2020. Recent totals are lighter than expected due to a nationally tech-industry slowdown that began in mid-2022 and uncertainty surrounding the recent elections. Responding to those market conditions, Indiana policymakers, educators and organizations like […]