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The Agency That Bought Back Its Independence
A Fort Wayne firm spent half a century learning that the most valuable media plan begins with a local problem. In 2022, two longtime insiders bought the agency and made that lesson the business.
The Bridge Was Easy. The Explanation Was the Hard Part.
C2 Strategic built a regional agency by doing the unfashionable work of making public projects legible - especially when the subject is a bridge, a toll, a crisis or a billion-dollar idea that cannot afford to be misunderstood.
Purdue has the patents. Now comes the hard part.
Purdue Innovates connects university inventions with licenses, founders and capital. Its most revealing work happens when a promising idea meets an inconvenient customer.
AgriNovus Indiana puts farm innovation on a longer clock
Seven-week contests gave young companies too little time. AgriNovus Indiana built a longer accelerator, linking farm problems, food science and the people who might turn an experiment into a business.
The Firm Indiana Built to Fund Its Own Future
For 15 years, Elevate Ventures has written the first check for Indiana startups from Gary to Evansville. In 2025, the state that helped create it started asking hard questions about the books.
Quantum Corridor
Quantum Corridor is a Midwest network-infrastructure company building North America's first inter-state, quantum-safe commercial fiber backbone. Its live coherent optical network links Chicago to Northwest Indiana with 40 Tbps capacity and 0.274 ms round-trip latency, connecting quantum research labs, hyperscalers, data centers and defense partners. Formed in 2021 as a public-private partnership, it is extending the route toward Purdue, Indianapolis and the Crane naval research base.