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An Indiana delegation to the Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Melbourne, Australia yielded a tech and entrepreneurship coup for the Hoosier state when Senior Vice President for Entrepreneurship and Small Business at the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, David Watkins, announced that the 2025 Global Entrepreneurship Congress will be hosted by the state of Indiana.  In September, […]

The world is abuzz with chatter about generative artificial intelligence (AI) and how new tools, such as ChatGPT, can be leveraged to help generate ideas, create new work products and even complete simple tasks.   Many businesses, including those in the Indiana tech community, are in the early stages of exploring the ways generative AI can […]

By Ting Gootee, CFA, CAIA and Roger Shuman  The venture capital landscape today, with regards to deal flow, looks similar to that of the early months of the pandemic in 2020. Crunchbase data showed global venture funding in Q2 2023 fell 18% quarter over quarter to $65 billion, down 49% compared to the second quarter […]

The tech industry is only continuing to grow, which means there are a lot of opportunities for new tech jobs in the future. As the industry continues to change and adapt, you might be wondering what the best tech jobs are now and in the future. Fortunately, the required experience and education for these roles […]

System Scale and Growth Heroes, Tactile Engineering, RxLightning, Glassboard, Ixana, Zylo, JobWorks, gener8tor, Preventia, Qualifi, Allegion and Solinftec among top honorees  TechPoint, the nonprofit, industry-led growth initiative for Indiana’s digital innovation economy, today honored 141 nominees and presented 18 awards during the organization’s 24th annual Mira Awards gala, presented by UKG, Salesforce and the Indiana […]

Indianapolis-based Software-as-a-Service management company Zylo won the award for Scale-up of the Year during TechPoint’s 24th annual Mira Awards gala honoring the best of tech in Indiana. Founded in 2017, Zylo was the first company to recognize that organizations needed a better way to help manage their rapidly growing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) portfolios. Its groundbreaking service […]

By Ting Gootee, CFA, CAIA and Roger Shuman We noted in an earlier report that 2022 was a year of venture market normalization from the 2021 high watermark, and our analysis of Q1 2023 indicates a continued pace toward more cautious deal making. Nationally, according to PitchBook, venture capital (VC) activity dropped in all stages […]

Fifty Indiana tech startups will get a discount on hiring talented young professionals as Xterns next summer thanks to a $300,000 investment from the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) into TechPoint’s signature career development program.  The Xtern program, which is entering its tenth year, has primarily seen company participation from established employers. Startups – which […]