Venture Capital Series: What’s it like to be a venture analyst?
Meet two new up-and-coming venture analysts, Nathan Hahn and David Steckler with Elevate Ventures. As venture analysts, they are responsible for focusing on market research and investment due diligence for prospective companies, as well as secondary engagement in providing solutions for existing portfolio companies.
Venture Capital Series: What does a venture analyst do?
Jackie DiMonte serves as a venture analyst at Hyde Park Venture Partners where she spends her time evaluating companies, performing deal work and coordinating the firm’s data and reporting processes. With headquarters in Chicago and Indianapolis, the firm has a number of Indiana tech companies in their portfolio including Bolstra, DemandJump, Vibenomics and Sigstr. We asked Jackie, a Sr. Associate based in the Chicago office, a few questions about what it means to be a venture analyst.
Lessonly raises $8 million Series B led by OpenView
The year 2017 is turning out to be quite the successful year for Lessonly. The leader in team training software has hit record-breaking quarters, ramped up hiring efforts, and is today announcing a Series B raise of $8 million led by OpenView. Lessonly’s founder and CEO, Max Yoder, is no stranger to success. Founded in November […]
Marketing at tech scale-up MOBI demands a constant ROI mindset
This is the third post in a three-part series on marketing at tech startups and scale-ups. Read the first post on marketing at tech startup Sigstr here and the second post on Torchlite here. As startups and scale-up tech companies grow and scale, marketing becomes even more essential to the product and the branding of the company. And as […]
Healthx customer conference continues to grow, improve healthcare outcomes
Healthx, a leader in cloud-based digital engagement solutions for healthcare payers and other stakeholders, held its second annual Experience Healthx conference on October 23-25 at The Alexander boutique hotel and event center in downtown Indianapolis. Healthx is an Indianapolis company that provides SaaS-based healthcare solutions to improve consumer and provider engagement. The company has grown […]
Sprint Week: A Forcing Function of Innovation
Innovating at Speed At High Alpha, we launch a new software company every 4 months. When I joined High Alpha as Director of Strategy & Innovation, my first task was to work with the partners to create the organizational discipline of innovating at this rapid pace. All businesses have a momentum towards operating over innovating. […]
Marketing at the speed of business requires ‘marketing orchestration management’
This is the second post in a three-part series on marketing at tech startups and scale-ups. Read the first post on marketing at tech startup Sigstr here. Marketers in today’s digital century are required to fragment their time across multiple platforms as new ways of communicating information through apps, online advertising and social media pop […]
Schneider Corporation’s data platform could power the next killer app
The Schneider Corporation might be a familiar name. It was founded in Indianapolis as a land surveying and civil engineering firm in the 1960s; added geographical information systems (GIS) services in the 1990s (starting in 1989 to be exact); and continued to make bold moves into the software-as-a-service, e-government space over the past 25+ years. […]
