FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 17, 2022 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- IU Ventures has honored three individual partners who continue to contribute to Indiana University's expanding entrepreneurial ecosystem with the Spirit of Venture Award. The annual award, given by IU's early-stage venture and angel investment arm, celebrates the spirit...
An investment fund that supports IU student innovation announces investment in FoodMeets and Solesca An app that connects people through dining-out experiences and a startup creating software to help farmers implement solar power are the latest student startups to benefit from the Shoebox Fund, an investment fund...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 6, 2022 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The students come from cities as disparate as Bloomington and Bujumbura, pursue academic interests ranging from entrepreneurship to environmental science, and possess professional experience spanning the fields of business, education, computer science, healthcare and more. Together, they make up...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 10, 2022 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- For 2022 to see further advancement of Indiana's evolving technology ecosystem, the state's leading venture firms and accelerator programs must continue to work together to build the talent, capital and connections to fuel that growth. That was among one...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 9, 2022 BLOOMINGTON, Ind -- Indiana University’s early-stage venture and angel investment arm, IU Ventures, is one of the most active venture capital firms in the Great Lakes region of the U.S., according to PitchBook's 2021 Annual Global League Tables rankings. IU Ventures tied...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 4, 2022 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University's early-stage venture and angel investment arm, IU Ventures, has once again been recognized as one of Indiana's most active professional investors. A list of those firms appears in the 2021 Indiana Venture Report from Elevate Ventures,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Feb. 23, 2022 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Leading Indiana University-affiliated entrepreneurs, innovators, investors and others driving the development of the university's global venture ecosystem will come together this spring for a summit hosted by IU Ventures, the university's startup investment arm. The IU Founders & Funders...
Uncovered is leveraging publicly available data, analytics and community interest in true crime media FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Feb. 15, 2022 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- If Americans can agree on one notion, it's that we are living in the era of the true crime podcast, where every day seems to...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Feb. 14, 2022 INDIANAPOLIS -- BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- As co-founder of Warsaw, Ind.-based medical device company Owl Manor Medical LLC and a more-than-20-year industry veteran, Mark Schindel has already made major contributions to the growth of Indiana's life sciences economy. Now he's hoping to translate...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Feb. 7, 2022 INDIANAPOLIS -- The Bee Corp, a pioneering agricultural technology startup founded by two Indiana University alumni and headquartered in Indianapolis, is receiving additional investment through IU Ventures' startup support ecosystem. After receiving a $250,000 investment from the IU Philanthropic Venture Fund in...
