By Priyamvada Mathur, James Thorne June 2, 2020

SOUTH BEND — Jason Critchlow recalled the day when a woman knocked on his door, saying she was from Canada and wouldn’t be in town long. She asked him to point out the house where Pete Buttigieg grew up. There was

Midwest technology investors have spent the past decade trying to attract venture capitalists from Silicon Valley and the East Coast to homegrown startups.

Heartland Ventures, a Midwest United States-based venture capital firm, is expanding into the Columbus, Ohio market. The expansion will enable the firm to connect more Columbus-based companies wi

The next time you walk into one of Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle’s more than 216 supermarkets, 202 GetGo convenience stores, or 56 Ricker’s stores, you might not have to stop by the checkout c

As Silicon Valley venture capitalists express increasing interest in investing in companies outside of their backyard, more groups are trying to get these VCs to the Midwest, even if just for a

SOUTH BEND — On the fourth floor of the Citizens Bank building on Jefferson Boulevard in downtown, Max Brickman and the Heartland Ventures team are working to flip the script on venture capital

At the end of February, Max Brickman of Heartland Ventures and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg were among the ambassadors who helped welcome a bus full of Silicon Valley VCs to their Midwestern turf during what was coine

“Oh my god, this is so cute!” Robin Li, an investor with the San Francisco venture capital firm GGV Capital, was standing in the lobby of the Madison building in downtown Detroit. Built in 1917 as a theater and re