FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Carmel, Ind. -- With recent investments from IU Ventures totaling $500,000, an Indiana-based life sciences company is accelerating its efforts to find a treatment solution for those afflicted with autism spectrum disorder and fragile X syndrome. IU Ventures, Indiana University's early-stage venture and angel...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The company's innovative booking software couldn't have arranged it any better. With the support of three separate financial investments in the past four years from the Innovate Indiana Fund, which is managed by IU Ventures, Bloomington-based Periodic, a software developer specializing...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 16, 2022 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Ravi Bhatt is back home in Indiana and the company he brought with him is revving up, thanks, in part, to new investment from IU Ventures, Indiana University's early-stage venture and angel investment arm. Bhatt, an alumnus of IU...
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...
