PactSafe is transforming the way software-as-a-service companies use contracts

Let’s face it, business-to-business (B2B) contracts are a hassle. Despite their necessity, problems with contracts are the reason about one out of every 10 deals deals falls apart due to inefficiencies, legal reasons or other friction throughout the contracting process. And forget about analytics; accessing contract data is a manual process that makes getting a […]

Bluebridge rallies its mobile app success to disrupt employee engagement market

Since smartphone sales eclipsed personal computers in 2011, entrepreneur Santiago Jaramillo has been obsessed with finding better ways to communicate and engage with people under the mobile-first mantra. He founded a company called Bluebridge, surrounded himself with passionate fellow entrepreneurs, and quickly gained traction as a pioneer of mobile-apps-as-a-service — a flat-fee platform that provides […]

Lectio helps people with dyslexia ‘read to learn’

They say that necessity is the mother of all invention. Kris Parmalee — mother of Sam, who has dyslexia — has certainly taken that saying to heart. Kris was frustrated that there weren’t any easy-to-use tools to help her son read and pronounce that one word on a worksheet or in a passage of text that he […]

Venture capitalist Scott Maxwell calls Indy ‘high energy, infectious’

It’s 2016 — the year of the scale-up. Venture capitalists from coast to coast are on the hunt for investment opportunities with relatively young, rapidly emerging, innovation-driven companies that could be the next big success stories. High Alpha, an Indianapolis-based venture studio focused on enterprise cloud companies, is one such investment firm keenly aware of the […]

TechPoint receives $600,000 Skill UP grant to attract and develop top tech talent

TechPoint, through the CICP Foundation, has been awarded more than $600,000 through Skill UP Indiana, a grant program the Indiana Department of Workforce Development (DWD) created to advance programs aimed at retaining, attracting and developing talent. The Skill UP Indiana grant program intends to foster the growth of skills and competencies essential to filling the […]

$1.4 Million Lilly Endowment Grant to Support TechPoint Talent Attraction and Development Initiatives

TechPoint, Indiana’s tech growth initiative, announced today that Lilly Endowment Inc. has approved a $1.4 million grant to help attract and retain tech talent in the state. The grant will support TechPoint’s Xtern program, which matches tech-skilled college students with Indianapolis-based companies, and a new program aimed at retaining recent college graduates. “Xtern is an […]

TechPoint gets triple dose of young talent

With Indiana’s tech industry growing rapidly and TechPoint continuously increasing its impact on talent, scaleups and community — we naturally need more hands on deck. Every part of our organization is growing in innovative and exciting ways. The Xtern program has already doubled in its second year, and we expect it to continue to grow […]

TechPoint Honors the Best of Tech in Indiana at 2015 Mira Awards

Apparatus, AniDyn, TinderBox and Lesson.ly, Among Top Honorees TechPoint, Indiana’s technology growth initiative, honored Indiana’s best companies, entrepreneurs, educators, and other leaders for their technology excellence and innovation at the 16th annual Mira Awards gala presented by BKD CPAs & Advisors at the JW Marriott in downtown Indianapolis. Among those taking home top honors were […]