Indiana venture

Torchlite, a software-as-a-service based marketplace that connects businesses to experts who build, manage and optimize digital marketing campaigns, launches the first-ever digital marketing platform powered by an on-demand talent marketplace. On March 22, the company released significant updates to its platform based on months of conversations with clients, account managers and “Torchliters” — the company’s vetted […]

Healthcare mishaps happen so frequently that nearly everyone has a story. Whether a grandmother gets medication intended for another, or a child with asthma gets a double dose, the cause of medical mistakes can often be tracked to a breakdown in communication. Doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals do their very best (often amidst chaos […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

If you’ve ever tried to get information on a product you already own — like finding an owner’s manual, warranty, replacement parts or a place where they can help you fix it — then you already know why Lumavate was created. The experience of trying to get the information you need from an inanimate object […]

The big news in tech last week (and I’m sure in weeks to come) for Indianapolis was High Alpha. Four well-known Indy entrepreneurs — Scott Dorsey, Mike Fitzgerald, Eric Tobias, and Kristian Andersen — all banded together with venture capital firms from the East and West Coasts and the Midwest, as well as strategic angel investors, […]