Corporations can't afford to simply react to market changes and "black swan" events. Instead, they must future-proof their organizations by taking proactive measures that make them more resilient. One way to do this? Build new companies. Large enterprises' access to market data, customer feedback, and industry insights mean they are uniquely poised to uncover new avenues for innovation and growth. High Alpha Innovation Business Development Manager Nick Wichert details how corporations can lay the foundation for long-term success by launching startups that solve big problems of interest to them, partners, and customers. #VentureBuilding #Entrepreneurship #CompanyBuilding
High Alpha Innovation
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Indianapolis, Indiana 8,183 followers
We co-create advantaged startups to solve compelling problems.
About us
We build companies. Our team partners with leading organizations and entrepreneurs to unlock growth and transformation through startup creation.
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https://highalphainno.com
External link for High Alpha Innovation
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Type
- Privately Held
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830 Massachusetts Ave
Suite 1500 Floor 4
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204, US
Employees at High Alpha Innovation
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Boris Pluskowski
Head of Corporate CxO (CIO / CTO / CMO / CFO, etc) Platform @HSBC Innovation Bank | Startups | Venture Capital | Strategic Partnerships
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Roger Cummings
Customer Centric | GTM CEO/CRO | Founder | Advisor | Board Member | Investor |
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Elliott Parker
CEO at High Alpha Innovation
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Vishal Agarwal
Google, Gen AI, Digital Transformation
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Digital transformation has been accelerating in the retail industry in recent years. Yet many companies tied to the Retail Value Chain have hesitated to adopt new, emerging technologies — including AI tools — to enhance operational efficiency and support activities across their organizations. Some of this is because of a legacy mindset. But it's also due to a lack of understanding how *purpose-built* solutions can solve big problems facing CPG brands and brokers, suppliers, carriers, and manufacturers. As Fieldbook Studio Managing Partner Josh Stanley explains in our latest blog post, that's where technology startup creation can help. https://lnkd.in/gd2Ftcym #VentureBuilding #VentureStudio #RetailIndustry #SSBCI
How Tech Startups Can Positively Impact the Retail Value Chain
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Netflix was able to unseat then-industry leader Blockbuster because of its ability to execute fast, cheap, and "weird" experiments to test and validate business assumptions. This work ultimately enabled Netflix to address unmet customer demands and market opportunities quickly. Behind every innovation, like the launch of Netflix, there are hundreds (if not thousands) of assumptions that must be tested. So, how can those building startups determine whether or not their hypotheses are correct? High Alpha Innovation Build Associate Julia Tofan shares five proven ways to pressure-test assumptions during the venture-building process: https://lnkd.in/giEDptCh #VentureBuilding #Startups #Entrepreneurship
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Venture building is best conducted in a fast-paced yet structured environment where scaled organizations can test and learn quickly to uncover potential market gaps, opportunities, and unmet customer needs. Speed isn't all that's required, though. Working with an external venture-building partner is also a core component of successful startup creation. For corporations, in particular, “Outside partners with experience launching independent startups can help break ideas out of the constraints of the core business, where their speed and likelihood of success is greatly improved," High Alpha Innovation Build Director Rob Kimball explains. https://lnkd.in/e8C3NJQY #VentureBuilding #StartupCreation
External Venture Building: Ideal for Scaled Organizations
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Learning how to leverage emerging technologies like artifiical intelligence for various business use cases requires scaled organizations to run a lot of low-cost experiments, forget about being "right," and focus more on coming up a high volume of ideas — including those for new startups. Writing for InnoLead, High Alpha Innovation CEO Elliott Parker shares three distinct areas in which large enterprises can use AI to transform their businesses for the better and "win" the AI game. https://lnkd.in/gVp4Rxr9 #VentureBuilding #CorporateInnovation #Entrepreneurship
Fast, Cheap, and Weird
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Before drugs go to market, pharmaceutical companies must conduct Medical, Legal, and Regulatory (MLR) reviews to ensure any content around the product is truthful, accurate, and balanced and complies with relevant regulations. This necessary but lengthy process often leads to delays for pharma marketing teams, which can cost their organizations millions. That's why pharmas are increasingly relying on AI and ML tech — like HAI portfolio company Revisto — to streamline their MLR reviews and approvals. We recently sat down with Revisto CEO and Co-founder Ferry Tamtoro to discuss his entrepreneurial path, how the platform helps pharmas boost operational efficiency, and what lies ahead for the business near term. https://lnkd.in/g3VAZtn6 #Entrepreneurship #PharmaTech #VentureBuilding
Founder Q&A: Insights from Revisto CEO Ferry Tamtoro
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Timing is everything for a startup. This isn't a new concept. Idealab's Bill Gross discussed this at length in a 2015 TED Talk, after studying 200 successful startups. Quality, product-market fit, and the macroeconomic climate are factors that certainly impact a startup's success — but timing, Gross found, is arguably the most important one. So, how can entrepreneurs ensure they bring their companies to market at the optimal moment? As High Alpha Innovation Portfolio & Network Director Nolan Bernard explains, it's part science and art, and it requires a data-driven approach by founding teams to determine. https://lnkd.in/g5ae-Jkb #Startups #Entrepreneurship #VentureBuilding
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Creating a more collaborative and inclusive economy starts with grassroots work nationwide to help socially and economically disadvantaged individuals (SEDIs). It also requires long-term support from the business world at large. That means corporations, non-profits, states, and municipalities must work alongside one another to make the desired societal impact in their communities. That was a common theme of a recent The Aspen Institute event hosted at High Alpha Innovation HQ in Indianapolis. https://lnkd.in/g-tQDe_R #VentureBuilding #VentureCapital #CommunityInvestment
Why Community Investment Is Worthwhile for Corporations and VCs
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WoodChuck.ai, a High Alpha Innovation portfolio company transforming waste to energy with the power of #AI, today announced it's developing a first-of-its-kind AI innovation environment and biomass-processing facility at the startup's new global headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “We’re thrilled to see Todd Thomas and team continue to grow the WoodChuck.ai platform, both helping construction firms achieve lofty but necessary carbon emissions goals and energy providers with their ongoing efforts to provide green energy to the masses,” said HAI CEO Elliott Parker. Learn more about the news here: https://lnkd.in/gZpqAYRD #ClimateTech #Sustainability #DisruptiveInnovation
Woodchuck Revolutionizes Waste to Energy for Construction, Manufacturing & Bioenergy Industries
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Thanks to everyone who attended Alloy in Atlanta this week! What a rush! It's always a highlight of my year to see so many friends from different spheres gathered in one place: entrepreneurs, investors, corporate and university leaders, and many others. I learned a lot this year, I hope those of you who came did too. If you missed, join us next year! In the highlights reel below I see David Senra, Garrett Viggers, Sally Ann Frank, Dan Phillips, Gerald Goodfellow, Chris Stewart, Molly Cross, Mamta Elias, Don Wettrick, Kristin Fuller, Jake Miller, Namratha Vedire, Daley Ervin, Mike Fitzgerald, Matthew Burris, Kendra Tolley, Sydney Evans, SHRM-CP, Abolore Salami, Matthew Brady, Kofi Essel, MD, MPH, FAAP, and Shegun Otulana, and many more. Thanks to our sponsors Goodwin, The Engineered Innovation Group, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, and Faegre Drinker.