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| Oct 20, 2025 | Indiana has entered its One Health era and the innovators have already showed up to the party | When Elanco cut the ribbon on its newly built global headquarters in downtown Indianapolis this fall, it added more than a building to the city’s skyline. The animal health company’s homecoming signaled a new commitment to innovation and an... |
| Oct 1, 2025 | IEDC approves $10M in federal funding to launch Indianapolis venture studio | Please subscribe to IBJ to decode this article.
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| Aug 20, 2025 | Navigating a ‘perfect storm’ in ag: new AgriNovus Indiana chief sees disruption as catalyst for innovation | As a former director of global food systems at Corteva Agriscience, Christy Wright is under no illusions about the challenges facing stakeholders across the food and agriculture supply chain.
“Ag is navigating right now a perfect storm of g... |
| Aug 25, 2021 | New report highlights outsized impact of healthcare and life sciences sector in Central Indiana | |
| Oct 19, 2015 | How Biotech Startup Phytoption is Helping Fortune 500 Companies | For many consumers, one of the first things they look for when buying a range of different food products is the existence of artificial colors, flavours and preservatives. In Europe, the prevalence of so-called ‘E numbers’ — the name ascrib... |
| May 16, 2014 | Indiana HIT startup Diagnotes to pitch at Silicon Valley World Cup Tech Challenge | Diagnotes is a mobile and web-based software system that gives medical groups the tools to improve physician communication with their patients, care teams and office staff. Diagnotes accurately routes phone calls and text messages using its... |
| Dec 12, 2013 | With right CEO, this $360M collaboration could push Indiana to top of life sciences industry | The Institute will prove to be a true “proof-of-concept” for BioCrossroads, BioCrossroads President David Johnson said, which serves as “a catalyst for the continued growth of Indiana’s robust life sciences industry.”
What started as a disc... |
| Oct 16, 2013 | Biocrossroads picks seven Indiana health IT, life science startups to compete for venture capital | Jace Medical, a startup with Cleveland Clinic ties and a “novel cardiac device” with aims to improve surgeons’ efficiency plus patients’ long-term outcomes
Health IT:
Curvo Labs, a big-data based hospital supply chain management system that... |
| Jan 11, 2013 | UPDATED: Biotech upstart revives cancer drug from Pfizer with $15.5M round | Another biotech startup is picking up where Pfizer left off with an experimental drug. Esanex wrapped up a $15.5 million round of financing last month and plans to advance an Hsp90 inhibitor that Pfizer ($PFE) acquired in the drug giant's 2... |
| Jan 10, 2013 | Investors have put $15.5M behind cancer drug startup to revive shelved Hsp90 inhibitor | Here’s what we’ve learned about Esanex since May: It’s apparently a resurrection of Serenex, a North Carolina-based cancer drug company that was acquired by Pfizer in 2008 when it was in phase 1 development. Several former Serenex executive... |
| Oct 25, 2012 | VC prediction: 2013 will be a good year for medtech deals | Adele Olivia of Quaker Partners was also optimistic and said the quality and opportunity of deals is unprecedented.
“I just can’t believe the quality of teams we are seeing, and the state of assets,” she said. “This is a great time to be in... |
| Oct 23, 2012 | Mobile EHR solution for on-call doctors wins Indiana’s first new venture competition | The data is not stored on the phone or anywhere in the Diagnotes system. The service simply provides the connection between the doctor and the information.
A health system in Indianapolis wanted to use the service in a pilot program and pai... |
| Jul 25, 2012 | Deadlines approaching: 3 ways to get mentors and money for your life science startup | Apply here.
Angel Venture Forum — Aug. 1
Up to 30 companies will get to make live presentations to a consortium of angel investors in October at the Angel Venture Forum Showcase in Washington, D.C., after getting three months of education, ... |
| Apr 30, 2012 | Indiana Seed Fund II Launches | Indiana-based BioCrossroads has launched an $8.25m early-stage capital fund focused on identifying, creating and developing life sciences companies.
A follow-on to a $6m first fund, Indiana Seed Fund II will invest an average of $500k in ea... |
| Apr 30, 2012 | BioCrossroads forms Indiana Seed Fund II for early-stage life science companies | “The fact that this impressive group of institutional investors has come together to form a new Indiana Seed Fund is a terrific testament to the strength of our life sciences sector,” said David L. Johnson, president and CEO of BioCrossroad... |
| Apr 30, 2012 | BioCrossroads announces New Venture Competition for life sciences companies | The winner will be announced at the Indiana Life Sciences Summit Networking Reception on October 22, 2012. Second and third place companies will be awarded cash prizes of $15,000 and $10,000 respectively. There will also be a Pre-Venture pr... |
| Feb 9, 2012 | Indiana’s medical device industry is fifth largest in U.S. | “From small towns to larger cities, the economic impact of the medical devices industry is significant and is well-distributed throughout the state,” said David Johnson, president and CEO of BioCrossroads. According to the report, the geogr... |
| Oct 20, 2011 | Zorion Medical Receives Investment | Zorion Medical, an Indianapolis-based medical device start-up, has received an investment of undisclosed amount.
Backers include BioCrossroads‘ Indiana Seed Fund, which committed $300k, and Indianapolis-based private investment and merchant... |
| Jan 7, 2011 | Tuberculosis biotech Aarden expects polished drug by year’s end | Promoted
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The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. Learn more with a new report from Omada Heal... |
| Sep 17, 2010 | SonarMed draws in $1 million for breathing tube monitoring device | Medical device company SonarMed Inc. raised $1 million in equity to help launch its first product — the Airway Monitoring System.
The Indianapolis, Ind.-based company has been perfecting its system — which uses sonar waves, sensors and soft... |
| Sep 16, 2010 | SonarMed raises $1M to market breathing tube monitoring device | Cothrel said his six-employee company would use its fund-raise for a go-to-market strategy that included building a sales team and establishing partnerships with third-party companies that also would sell its device. The company raised $1,0... |
| Jul 29, 2010 | FDA clearance in hand, SonarMed plans Q4 launch of breathing tube device | To avoid those figurative rocks, SonarMed is making small tweaks to the device’s design as the company readies for a fourth-quarter launch. For example, the company has begun using a stronger resin for the device’s monitoring screen, after ... |
| May 12, 2010 | AgeneBio Raises $300,000 from BioCrossroads’ Indiana Seed Fund | AgeneBio, an Indianapolis-based biotechnology start-up company focused on the development of therapeutic products for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), dementia and other memory disorders, has raised $300,000 from BioCrossroads’ Indiana Seed Fund.
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| BioCrossroads forms Indiana Seed Fund II for early-stage life science companies | This post is sponsored by BioCrossroads.
BioCrossroads announced today the formation of the Indiana Seed Fund II (the Fund), an early-stage capital fund focused on identifying, creating and developing the next generation of Indiana-based li... |
| Indiana’s medical device industry is fifth largest in U.S. | This post is sponsored by BioCrossroads.
According to a report recently released by BioCrossroads, the medical devices industry is one of Indiana’s most valuable economic assets employing over 20,000 people, and generating more than $10 bil... |
| Mobile EHR solution for on-call doctors wins Indiana’s first new venture competition | A health IT firm won the day in a city that is better known for its pharma and medical device companies.
Diagnotes was awarded $25,000 in the BioCrossroads New Venture Competition Monday night in Indianapolis.
The firm created the On Call p... |
| With right CEO, this $360M collaboration could push Indiana to top of life sciences industry | Indiana has propelled itself into the upper echelons of the life sciences industry. It’s a Top Five life sciences state overall and the fourth biggest medtech state. But it still isn’t mentioned in the same breath as California or Boston.
O... |
| FDA clearance in hand, SonarMed plans Q4 launch of breathing tube device | SonarMed Inc. celebrated the biggest milestone in its nearly five-year history earlier this year when its breathing-tube-monitoring device was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Now it just needs to start selling the device, ... |
| BioCrossroads announces New Venture Competition for life sciences companies | This post is sponsored by BioCrossroads.
At a press conference today announcing the Indiana Seed Fund II (ISFII), BioCrossroads also launched the inaugural BioCrossroads New Venture Competition presented by Krieg DeVault, an early stage bus... |
| VC prediction: 2013 will be a good year for medtech deals | The combination of new CEOs at medical device firms and VC-backed companies motivated for exits will make for a lot of medtech acquisitions in 2013. Jonathan Silverstein made that prediction during a panel discussion about capitalizing in t... |
| SonarMed raises $1M to market breathing tube monitoring device | Medical device company SonarMed Inc. has raised $1 million to help launch its first product — the Airway Monitoring System.
The Indianapolis, Indiana, company has been perfecting its system — which uses sonar waves, sensors and software to ... |
| Investors have put $15.5M behind cancer drug startup to revive shelved Hsp90 inhibitor | A cancer pharmaceutical startup called Esanex generated lots of reader interest back in May when it began raising a $15 million round.
The latest U.S. Security and Exchange Commission filing from Esanex (in December) shows that the round wa... |
| Biocrossroads picks seven Indiana health IT, life science startups to compete for venture capital | Biocrossroads, which provides money and support to Indiana’s life sciences industry, announced the seven finalists who stand to gain startup funding in its annual New Venture Competition. Six have biotech or healthcare in their sights. On O... |
| Tuberculosis biotech Aarden expects polished drug by year’s end | Aarden Pharmaceuticals, which has an approach that attacks previously treatment-resistant intracellular proteins in the body, will spend the year fine tuning its lead drug candidate that treats tuberculosis. The company, based in Indiana, h... |
| Indiana HIT startup Diagnotes to pitch at Silicon Valley World Cup Tech Challenge | “MedCity News has partnered with BioCrossroads to provide coverage focused on Indiana’s next generation of growth and innovation in life sciences”
Based in Indiana, Diagnotes is a virtual solution to doctor-patient communication when the do... |
| SonarMed’s Exit to Medtronic Is a Win for VisionTech Angels Investors and World’s Most Vulnerable Patients | INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (June 15, 2021) – – Last month, when SonarMed announced it had been acquired by Medtronic, a global leader in medical technology, VisionTech Angels investors had much to celebrate. Ten years earlier, the group’s member... |
| Deadlines approaching: 3 ways to get mentors and money for your life science startup | Startup companies don’t have to be accepted to an accelerator or incubator for guidance in the entrepreneurial process. Need funding? Need advice? Need exposure? Here are a few upcoming events that can provide those resources and have fast ... |
