Honoring ‘The Best of Tech in Indiana’
From 180 applications, independent judging panels selected 90 companies, schools, organizations and individuals to advance as Mira Award Nominees
Winners will be announced during a black-tie awards ceremony and gala on Saturday, April 29, at The Westin Indianapolis
TechPoint, the growth initiative for Indiana’s technology ecosystem, has announced the nominees for its 18th annual Mira Awards presented by Angie’s List, Genesys, and Salesforce. The Mira Awards program is a six-month season of events and communications honoring ‘The Best of Tech in Indiana’ each year.
“In just over a decade, Indiana has seen more than $6.5 billion in acquisitions and IPOs from our tech community. More recently, in 2016, two-thirds of all the venture capital dollars and three-quarters of all the deals raised in Indiana went to tech companies,” said TechPoint President and CEO Mike Langellier. “The Mira Awards exist to celebrate our state’s tremendous tech success stories and amplify them to media, investors and technology buyers nationwide.”
Nominees were selected by 50 independent subject matter experts who evaluated and ranked the applications. Later this month, all nominees will deliver presentations and answer questions in-person with one of the independent judging panels, and then the judges will select the winners following their deliberations.
Key Mira Award events coming up in March, April and May include:
“People’s Choice Public Voting” – Winners will be announced in late March.
Visit the Mira Awards Nominee Showcase (https://app.reviewr.com/s1/showcase//mira) and select from Best Tech Space, Best Tech Event or Best Tech T-Shirt or Swag to browse the People’s Choice Public Voting nominees.
“Mira Awards Gala” – Mira Award winners will be announced at a black-tie awards ceremony and gala on Saturday, April 29, at The Westin Indianapolis.
“Winners’ Circle” – Current and past Mira Award Winners will have the chance to meet face-to-face with venture capital and private equity firms.
The official 2017 TechPoint Mira Award nominees are:
PEOPLE
Rising Star Award
Anurag Garg, DATTUS
Casey Gauss, Viral Launch
Lindsay Siovaila, Salesforce and Girl Develop It
Max Brickman, GLC Ventures
Nick Birch, PropelUp
Patrick Sells, Sells Group
Prahasith Veluvolu, Mimir
Tim Balz, Freedom Chairs
Tyler Foxworthy, DemandJump
Victor Gutwein, M25 Group
Community Champion of the Year
Mike Asem, M25 Group, The Anvil and Purdue Foundry
DirectEmployers Institute
Douglas Rapp, Cyber Leadership Alliance
Eleven Fifty Academy Outreach Team
Joshua Driver, Open for Service
Tech Educator of the Year
Don Wettrick, Noblesville High School and Think Forward Foundation
Informatics Diversity-Enhanced Workforce (iDEW), Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing at IUPUI
Information Technology at Purdue University, Teaching and Learning Technologies
Jennifer Palilonis and Brad King, Center for Emerging Media Design & Development, Ball State University
Julie Alano, Hamilton Southeastern High School
Paul O’Connor, Eleven Fifty Academy
Penguin Innovations
Peter Williams, Butler University and ClearScholar
Rubicon Agriculture
PRODUCTS
Best New Tech Product
ClusterTruck
DemandJump
Doxly
FATWIN Web Engagement by PERQ
FUZIC
Hydro Grow
PactSafe
Performance Assessment Network (PAN)
Scale Computing
StoreFront by SmarterHQ
Tech Service of the Year
Aunalytics
ClusterTruck
Emplify
Fishers Police Department
Fizziology
greenlight.guru
mAccounting
MS Companies
Pondurance
Viral Launch
Innovation of the Year
Aprimo
Arrhythmotech
ClusterTruck
DemandJump
Hydro Grow
IndyVitals by The Polis Center at IUPUI
Prehensile Technologies
Rook Security
Salesforce Einstein
The ROY G. BIV Math System by Team Storm
COMPANIES
New Startup of the Year
Adranos Energetics
Bolstra
ClearScholar
ClusterTruck
Fuzic
JUA Technologies International
Lumavate
Market Wagon
versityU
Zylo
Scale-up of the Year ($100K-$5M)
Aunalytics
Curvo Labs
DemandJump
DoubleMap
Fizziology
greenlight.guru
Innovatemap
Lessonly
PactSafe
Sigstr
Springbuk
Torchlite
Trek10
Viral Launch
Scale-up of the Year ($5M-$20M)
Archway Technology Partners
ClearObject
hc1.com
Pondurance
SmarterHQ
Corporate Innovator of the Year
Adjunct Professor Link
Angie’s List
ClusterTruck
NCAA
NextGear Capital
Company Culture of the Year
Allegient
Appirio
BLASTmedia
DemandJump
eimagine
Fizziology
Flexware Innovation
Formstack
Lessonly
Moser Consulting
NextGear Capital
One Click
Tech Company of the Year ($20M+)
Healthx
Kinney Group
MOBI
Renaissance Electronic Services
TCC Software Solutions
In addition to the competitive Mira Awards categories, there is an Investor of the Year Award and two other special industry recognitions — TechPoint Foundation for Youth BridgeBuilder Award and TechPoint Trailblazer in Technology Award — are selected by the TechPoint Foundation for Youth and TechPoint boards of directors respectively.
Winners will be announced at a black-tie awards ceremony and gala featuring a reception and three-course seated dinner with live entertainment on Saturday, April 29th, at The Westin Indianapolis. Early-bird and “Under 30” tickets are on sale now at www.techpoint.org.
Sponsorship opportunities that include group tickets, are also available by contacting Lauren Petersen at lauren@techpoint.org or 260-273-1855.
ABOUT TECHPOINT:
TechPoint is the nonprofit, industry-led growth initiative for Indiana’s technology companies and overall tech ecosystem. The team is focused on attracting talent, accelerating scale-up companies, activating the community, and amplifying stories of success. For more information, please visit www.techpoint.org.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 2017 Mira Awards logo, moniker, and nominee badge are available for DOWNLOAD in multiple versions.
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