Best Practices to Keep Your Business Protected from Cybersecurity Attacks

Across the state of Indiana, many businesses have made the adjustment to remote work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  But as most of the workforce continues to operate remotely and businesses build out teleworking capabilities to support, an unintentional outcome has occurred – cyberattacks are on the rise. Now, cybercriminals are attacking at a […]

Funding social innovation yields new tools in the fight against poverty

Audacious isn’t usually a word people associate with fighting poverty. Overwhelming, destructive, heartbreaking … these are the familiar words we hear when discussing the root of many of society’s most challenging obstacles. It’s not, however, impossible to put a different lens on fighting poverty and see the fight as an opportunity to innovate—to tackle a […]

Relying on high-tech means to overcome office challenges in the COVID era

“People will never go back to the offices again.”“It’s too unsafe. It’s a health risk.”“Remote work is working too well.” That was the national sentiment in early 2020 as the wave of COVID-19 crashed over the United States. Suddenly, companies started questioning whether they’d ever use their office space the same way again. The JLL […]

3 Questions: Demystifying Technology Exits with John McDonald

This is a follow-up piece to Demystifying Venture Capital in our “3 Questions” series contributed by subject matter experts throughout the tech community in Indiana. This series takes complex tech topics and explains them in easy-to-understand ways without the dense jargon so every reader can learn a little bit more about our industry. So, you’ve […]

3 Questions: Demystifying Venture Capital with John McDonald

This is the first installment in our “3 Questions” series contributed by subject matter experts throughout the tech community in Indiana. This series takes complex tech topics and explains them in easy-to-understand ways without the dense jargon so every reader can learn a little bit more about our industry. Everything else flows from success in […]

Rethinking opportunities for the new normal: the value of a COVID-19 lens

For many brands and employers, the complexity of the pandemic and adrenaline rush of crisis mode has ebbed, but it has shifted the lens through which our customers and employees view work, life, employers and relationships. It happened all around the world and with unimagined speed. COVID-19 affected our customers and businesses in significant ways, […]

Minority founded $50M VC fund focusing on underrepresented founders and regions expanding in Indy

Candice Matthews Brackeen and her husband Brian just announced that they are expanding Lightship Capital and bringing the firm’s $50 million in venture capital funds to Indianapolis. It’s the largest-ever VC fund raised by a Black woman in the U.S. The first order of business will be to find the right location for a community […]

Public-sector powerhouse Brite Systems is ready to make its mark on the commercial world

Even though his college degree is in mechanical engineering, Jay Fernando taught himself how to code with the help of a few friends and, in 1999, he landed a software engineering job 8,000 miles away in Central Indiana. He married Leena Victoria (an electrical engineer and computer programmer by trade), and she, too, found success […]