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The world is abuzz with chatter about generative artificial intelligence (AI) and how new tools, such as ChatGPT, can be leveraged to help generate ideas, create new work products and even complete simple tasks.   Many businesses, including those in the Indiana tech community, are in the early stages of exploring the ways generative AI can […]

Every industry has been transformed in one way or another by technology, and the healthcare industry is no exception. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated developments in the healthcare space to address challenges with ineffective patient care and inefficiencies in administrative processes—especially as digital health experiences have increased over the past five years. In addition, medical technology […]

When serial entrepreneur Bill Oesterle told an Indianapolis newspaper columnist last year that he was dying, it shocked those who hadn’t already heard of his Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) diagnosis. Despite that knowledge, the news of his death last week was just as startling.  As word spread, the tributes flowed. It seemed few companies in […]

System Scale and Growth Heroes, Tactile Engineering, RxLightning, Glassboard, Ixana, Zylo, JobWorks, gener8tor, Preventia, Qualifi, Allegion and Solinftec among top honorees  TechPoint, the nonprofit, industry-led growth initiative for Indiana’s digital innovation economy, today honored 141 nominees and presented 18 awards during the organization’s 24th annual Mira Awards gala, presented by UKG, Salesforce and the Indiana […]

West Lafayette, Ind.-based precision agriculture company Solinftec won the award for Deal of the Year during TechPoint’s 24th annual Mira Awards gala honoring the best of tech in Indiana. Solinftec’s $60 million growth investment round secured in May 2022, will be recognized as the Deal of the Year during TechPoint’s 24th annual Mira Awards gala […]

West Lafayette, Ind.-based Ixana, inventor of a new wireless technology with the potential to transform human computer interaction, won the award for Startup of the year during TechPoint’s 24th annual Mira Awards gala honoring the best of tech in Indiana. Ixana, an Indianapolis company that seems to have solved a billion-dollar problem that has vexed […]

Lafayette, Ind.-based Tactile Engineering CEO Dave Schleppenbach, a serial entrepreneur, inventor and tireless advocate for people with disabilities, won the Rising Entrepreneur Award during TechPoint’s 24th annual Mira Awards gala honoring the best of tech in Indiana. Dave Schleppenbach seemed reluctant to champion himself as the potential 2023 TechPoint Mira Rising Entrepreneur of the Year, […]

Fort Wayne, Ind.-based JobWorks Education & Training Systems (JETS) won the Education Impact Award during TechPoint’s 24th annual Mira Awards gala honoring the best of tech in Indiana. Tech positions in Indiana and around the world are in white-hot demand and supply is woefully short, which is why TechPoint launched its Mission41K initiative in 2022, […]