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Butler University, gener8tor, and TechPoint launch Education and Workforce Innovation accelerator

Raquel Bahamonde2023-10-17T17:54:45-04:00October 17, 2023|

INDIANAPOLIS (Oct. 17, 2023) – Five startup companies will receive $100,000 each thanks to a new accelerator program focused on transforming education and workforce learning, especially with advanced technology. The funding will be provided through a new partnership between Butler University, gener8tor (a global venture firm that operates accelerator programs), and TechPoint. Through the partnership, named the “Butler Accelerator for Education and Workforce Innovation powered by gener8tor,” Butler, TechPoint and gener8tor will equip the startups with funding, work space, mentorship, access to capital, networking and related support for early-stage small businesses and startups from across the United States and Canada. The edtech accelerator will have operations at both Butler University and the 16 Tech Innovation District located in downtown Indianapolis. “Butler is consistently ranked as a leader in innovation. Through the accelerator program, our support of the next generation of companies poised [...]

TechPoint to Celebrate 25th Anniversary ‘Best of Tech’ Mira Awards at Old National Centre

admin41332023-10-10T08:31:00-04:00October 6, 2023|

INDIANAPOLIS — Celebrating its silver anniversary next year, TechPoint’s Mira Awards gala—known as the “Oscars of Tech in Indiana”—will be held on Friday, April 26, 2024, at the Old National Centre in Indianapolis. TechPoint and its sponsors and partners will take over the entire venue, including an awards show in the Murat Theatre followed by a community celebration and afterparty in the Egyptian Room. With the event attracting sold-out crowds over the past 10 years, this new location enables doubling attendance at the gala from 1,200 to 2,400 people. Extra seating capacity is also important as the organization recognizes digital innovation statewide across all industries. Additionally, TechPoint will reduce the general admission ticket price by at least $100 to make it more affordable for startup teams and traditionally underrepresented groups in tech. “Digital innovation is the key to keeping our [...]

TechPoint launches second phase of Mission41K: action steps based on a year of determining the best ways to grow Indiana’s tech workforce

Raquel Bahamonde2023-09-18T01:22:00-04:00September 5, 2023|

INDIANAPOLIS (Sept. 5, 2023) — This Thursday, TechPoint, Indiana’s industry-led growth initiative for the state’s digital innovation economy, will host a summit to kick off the second phase of its Mission41K initiative, a collaborative effort to inclusively grow the Hoosier tech workforce by 41,000 people by 2030. The half-day gathering of hundreds of Mission41K participants and supporters will include a keynote address from Cordell Carter, Esq., executive director of the Aspen Institute Socrates Program, a global education forum and the founding director of the Aspen Institute’s Project on Belonging. An industry panel of experts who have been implementing work-based learning strategies will discuss what they’ve gleaned over the year, and participants will take that information into breakout sessions designed to help develop action steps. Launched in September 2022, Mission41K is a state-wide, cross-sector effort with more than 100 companies and organizations [...]

TechPoint issues positive progress report for its Mission41K initiative

Raquel Bahamonde2023-08-01T07:14:10-04:00July 24, 2023|

TechPoint, the growth initiative for Indiana's tech sector, has released a progress report on its Mission 41K initiative aimed at growing the tech sector by 41,000 jobs by 2030. The initiative, which launched in September 2022, has shown progress as Indiana has grown its tech workforce by 5.6 percent, which is double the national tech workforce rate last year. According to TechPoint, since it launched the initiative more than 100 individuals and organizations have taken the Mission41K pledge. The report shows that 92 percent of all jobs in Indiana require some level of tech skill. Tech employment in Indiana stands at 118,872 jobs at nearly 9,300 tech companies. TechPoint's report shows that those companies posted more than 55,000 open positions last year. [READ FULL REPORT] In a recent Inside INdiana Business article, Dennis Trinkle, senior vice president of talent, strategy [...]

TechPoint issues Q2 2023 Indiana Tech Venture Report: Steadying pace towards market equilibrium between startups and investors

Raquel Bahamonde2023-07-17T15:05:10-04:00July 17, 2023|

The venture capital landscape today, with regards to deal flow, looks similar to that of the early months of the pandemic in 2020. Crunchbase data showed global venture funding in Q2 2023 fell 18% quarter over quarter to $65 billion, down 49% compared to the second quarter of 2022, when startup investors spent $127 billion. The first half of 2023 is down by similar proportions. In H1 2023, global funding reached $144 billion, marking a 51% decline from the $293 billion invested in H1 2022 and a 10% decline from the second half of 2022. “The trickle-down market effect from later-stage deals now to the seed and early-stage deals, especially around decreased valuation, has been shaping this year’s activities,” explained TechPoint President and CEO Ting Gootee. “This has a significant impact on an emerging venture community like ours where most founders are [...]

Entrepreneurship in the Population: Indiana (EPOP-IN)

Raquel Bahamonde2023-06-27T09:57:22-04:00June 27, 2023|

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Putting Tech to Work in Critical Industries: Indiana’s potential as a global leader for technology application and adoption

Raquel Bahamonde2023-06-13T10:39:49-04:00June 13, 2023|

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New TEConomy/TechPoint report shows tech adoption and cross-sector collaboration as key economic growth drivers for Indiana

Raquel Bahamonde2023-06-13T10:33:31-04:00June 13, 2023|

INDIANAPOLIS (June 13, 2023) — A report commissioned by TechPoint details a need to take advantage of a unique opportunity to position Indiana as a global leader in technology application and adoption beyond the traditional tech sector and into the state’s strongest advanced industry sectors. TechPoint, Indiana’s industry-led growth initiative for Indiana’s digital innovation economy and overall tech ecosystem, worked with TEConomy Partners LLC to examine Indiana’s tech sector and the degree to which tech is increasingly an embedded core competency driving economic growth across Indiana’s advanced industry sectors. Researchers used occupational data and provided an in-depth assessment and comparative analytics of tech penetration in Indiana’s major industries and business sectors. “Nearly every key sector of Indiana’s economy lags the nation in its share of tech and tech-enabled employment, which presents a great opportunity for us,” TechPoint President and CEO Ting [...]

(IND)Venture returns to connect startups and scale-ups with investors to grow Indiana’s digital innovation economy

Raquel Bahamonde2023-05-24T09:43:39-04:00May 23, 2023|

INDIANAPOLIS (May 23, 2023) — Three of Indiana’s leading entrepreneurial growth organizations will again join forces to host (IND)Venture, a two-day venture-focused summit designed to connect tech innovators with investors. The event, also called Indiana Venture Summit, is in its second consecutive year and is organized through a collaboration between TechPoint, 50 South Capital and the Venture Club of Indiana and supported by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation and other companies and organizations active in Indiana’s venture community. Organizers and past participants say this kind of Indiana-focused event is an opportunity to catapult companies to exponential growth. Hoosier founders are encouraged to join 50 attending investment group leaders and angel investors for two days of activities designed to connect companies in need of capital with organizations looking for investment opportunities. "Indiana startups with viable products should absolutely attend this event," [...]

TechPoint honors ‘Best of Tech’ Mira Award winners during 24th annual gala

Raquel Bahamonde2023-04-24T10:00:27-04:00April 22, 2023|

INDIANAPOLIS (April 22, 2023) — 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 annual Mira Awards gala, presented by UKG, Salesforce and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation. Winners come from Evansville, Fishers, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Lafayette, New Albany, and West Lafayette and are recognized by their peers in the tech ecosystem as true change agents whose innovations are helping save and improve lives, digitally transforming Indiana businesses and educating Hoosiers for tech careers in Indiana and throughout the world. RxLightning was a repeat double-winner this year, and Zylo returned to the podium for an award it earned in 2020. “The Mira Awards have always represented the best in Indiana tech, and this year we’re diving deep into talent development and digital innovation because both are economic [...]

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