Langellier joins High Alpha as operating partner
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The former CEO of Indianapolis-based TechPoint has a new gig in Indy. Mike Langellier has joined High Alpha as operating partner and head of new ventures, and the venture studio says he will help discover, refine and launch new tech companies.
Langellier led the nonprofit growth accelerator for Indiana’s technology sector for nine years before announcing his plans to leave in January 2022. He officially stepped down the following May.
“From his Orr Fellowship experience to founding his own successful technology company to leading TechPoint, Mike has been a phenomenal leader and friend,” High Alpha co-founder Scott Dorsey said in written remarks. “I’ve been privileged to support him as he transformed tech in Indiana over the last nine years and I’m thrilled to have him joining the High Alpha team.”
Langellier said he took his time to find his next venture and found it “right in my backyard.”
“I love new ideas, building things and solving problems. I knew I wanted to do more of that in the next chapter, and that’s what this New Ventures role is about. I’ll be responsible for figuring out which businesses to start and which founding teams to start them,” said Langellier. “I also wanted to do more venture investing, and a venture studio is a rare place where I can do both. It just so happens that the world’s best venture studio is here in Indy.”
High Alpha partner Kristian Andersen called Langellier the ideal fit for the new role as the venture studio evolves its model to better serve entrepreneurs.
“We’re building the best place in the world for a founder to launch and scale a software company,” he said. “That means finding the most talented repeat and first-time founders from diverse backgrounds to invite into our process. Uniquely, Mike has built both software companies and nationally lauded initiatives that attract talent and catalyze them to create economic opportunity.”
High Alpha was founded in 2015 by Dorsey, Andersen, Eric Tobias and Mike Fitzgerald. The studio says it has raised more than $260 million and launched more than 30 companies since its inception.