Gootee, who was named last year to lead TechPoint, wants Indiana to keep pace with that growth by adding 41,000 tech workers by 2030.
"This place didn't really have any kind of venture activity to speak of and those folks were real standout exceptions," Johnson said."They were building these different kinds of companies, but all in the tech area, and so there was a great deal of interest in seeing if that kind of talent could be brought together and some kind of an association be put together."
At the time, Gootee stumbled upon an opportunity to work for an international hedge fund that was trading in Asia. Gootee said her language skills got her in the door. Gootee speaks Mandarin and dabbled in French in college. English, of which she's fluent, is her second language. Gootee was part of the team that helped introduce the interim development concept. It wasn’t a model that they invented, but they had looked around and figured out how venture funds in other markets were yielding good results.
the IEDC's nonprofit venture capital arm. Elevate Ventures, she said was a startup to make government officials recognize the importance of an independent organization that would carry the market credibility and do the type of work they do.
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