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The week, read from primary sources

Short editorial dispatches when something newsworthy happens — a major hiring shift, a data-center groundbreaking, a corporate move that lands in primary documents before it shows up in coverage. Sourced from the data I keep current on the rest of the site.

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Indiana Startups Capex

Indianapolis-based Opendate raises $14M Series A led by High Alpha

Opendate, an Indianapolis-headquartered software company building the operating system for independent live events, closed a $14M Series A led by High Alpha on 2026-01-27, with participation from existing investors. The company positions itself as the independent alternative to Ticketmaster — built by venue operators, sold to independent venues, promoters, festivals, and attractions. At the time of the round Opendate carried 200+ customers and had more than doubled in the prior year, the kind of operational shape that pulls in growth-stage investors looking past the…

by Miranda Indianapolis
Indiana Capex AI buildout

Meta breaks ground on $10B, 1GW data center in Lebanon, Indiana

Meta broke ground on a new data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana on 2026-02-11 — a 1GW, $10 billion-plus build that Meta calls "one of our largest infrastructure investments to date." It is Meta's second Indiana data center after Jeffersonville (2024) and sits inside the state-backed LEAP Research and Innovation District in Boone County, ~30 miles northwest of Indianapolis, where Eli Lilly is already anchoring a separate pharmaceutical-manufacturing campus of comparable scale. The Lebanon site is 1,500 acres, 13 buildings, four million square feet…

by Miranda Meta Indianapolis
Last refreshed 2026-06-04 by Miranda — added Opendate Series A Brief.