Mira Awards

Fundraising goal set at  $17,500; donations can be made now! TechPoint Foundation for Youth has launched a campaign to expand its popular after-school State Robotics Initiative (SRI) into Indiana classrooms to encourage an additional 1,000 Hoosier girls and children of color toward tech careers. SRI is the Foundation’s largest program, with 24,000 students already participating. […]

Recognizing companies that are investing in innovation, committing to diversity, equity, and inclusion; boosting Indiana’s reputation nationally/internationally; and leveraging their resources to scale and make a positive impact in our community. Startups and small businesses may be the backbone of the Indiana tech industry, but without the emergence of large businesses, there wouldn’t be a […]

Celebrating exceptional work by professional services firms or internal teams who created the year’s best solutions. Behind every innovative idea is an integral support system to ensure a vision is executed. We know the people and businesses that keep those great ideas afloat aren’t always the ones who get credit for their part in sustaining […]

Celebrating tech companies that are doing an exceptional job developing talent, cultivating workspaces and workplace culture, and positively impacting the community. Company culture is an essential part of any great tech company. In any business, it’s important to rally the troops to get behind what you’re doing and also make them feel a part of […]

The Mira Awards celebrate the best of tech in Indiana, but after the awards are announced at the gala and the cameras have shut down, what happens next? For NearWave, winner of the Innovation of the Year Mira Award during TechPoint’s 22nd annual gala, it has been continued hard work and steady successes in their […]

Behind every major tech headline of acquisitions, expansions, and raises, is a story of how a community supported the individual. And often, a story of how the individual continues to support the community. These are the stories of TechPoint’s The Circuit, a new interview series dedicated to serving up the human stories behind the tech […]

Celebrating high-growth, innovation-driven businesses that provide technology products or services (or highly-tech-enabled businesses) Every startup dreams of becoming the next scale-up company. It means you’ve taken your business to the next level, bringing about new opportunities including customers, capital and growth. The Scale-up of the Year award celebrates high-growth, innovation-driven businesses that provide technology products […]

What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “rise up” and how does it make you feel? Because I’m a theatre nerd, the first thing I think of is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit Broadway musical Hamilton. The “rise up” phrase is used to great effect in the show, and those six simple letters are so […]