The second wave, named one by one

ITEM 7 · 2004–2025 · TWO SEATED HERE, FOUR AT BOUNDARY

The checklist forbids a grouped paragraph, so the wave is named firm by firm, each at its documented size — the two seated on this ground first: EmNet (2004, Granger at founding; carried whole at item 6) — the wave's first firm here and its only clean exit, to Xylem in 2018. NewSchool Learning (2007–2015, headquartered in Granger on the record of its own reference entry: "Headquarters: Granger, Indiana") — an educational-technology firm founded by Patrick Malley, a Michigan-born educator, designing custom visual themes for Moodle, the open-source learning-management system, as a certified Moodle Partner for clients worldwide; it ceased operations in December 2015, and its whole course — a Granger-seated software firm with a global client list, founded, run and closed inside eight years — is also this section's fullest single entry in the bust ledger at item 9. At directory strength the roll of the ground adds Nimbello, a payments-software firm listed at 7321 Heritage Square, Suite 2140, Granger — a Heritage Square tenancy for a software firm, printed at directory size and no stronger.

At boundary size, each owned by South Bend's build and named here one by one as the checklist requires: Data Realty — a data-center startup incubated at Innovation Park at Notre Dame; the City of South Bend's records price its Ignition Park facility three ways ($14.2 million in the April 2012 council resolution; ~$15 million in the regional accounts; a "$153 million" figure in the certified-technology-park recertification file that prints here as the file gives it, an evident decimal slip carried unnormalized), on 1440 Ignition Drive; it opened in fall 2012 as Ignition Park's first business and later merged into the Aunalytics line. Aunalytics — founded 2012 (founder Nitesh Chawla, Notre Dame's Frank M. Freimann professor of computer science, dates the start to discussions in 2011 and the company's founding to 2012, with Graham Allen Partners' seed funding; the Notre Dame record concurs) at Innovation Park; its Aunsight platform launched 2013; by 2021 the firm counted some 300 people, about 200 of them in South Bend; it moved with Data Realty into Catalyst One at Ignition Park in May 2016, the two sharing about 15,000 square feet and some 45 employees at the move. Vennli — founded 2013 on Mendoza marketing professor Joe Urbany's published growth-strategy model, co-founded with Gary Gigot, who moved from Seattle to run it; a SaaS firm seated downtown in South Bend, winner of TechPoint's 2015 Mira Award for tech services and of the 1st Source Bank Commercialization Award, with more than twenty employees at its award account. Trek10 — founded 2013 in South Bend by Jim Abercrombie, Shane Fimbel and a third co-founder, an Amazon Web Services consultancy that made serverless architecture its specialty, rose to AWS Premier Tier partner, seated at 1400 East Angela Boulevard, and was acquired by Caylent in October 2025. Four firms, four different wave-shapes — data infrastructure, professor-founded analytics, professor-founded SaaS, serverless services — all of them South Bend's. Granger's own wave is the two firms above the line, and the line is the finding.

Sources:

1. Wikipedia, "NewSchool Learning" — headquartered Granger, Indiana; founded 2007 by Patrick Malley, Michigan-born educator; Moodle Partner; defunct December 2015.
2. City of South Bend record (docs.southbendin.gov) — Data Realty Northern Indiana, LLC: Resolution 4174-12 (April 23, 2012), $14.2 million investment at 1440 Ignition Drive; the February 9, 2011 mayoral release (Innovation Park startup; first private business in Ignition Park); the November 26, 2012 certified-technology-park recertification (Data Realty as Ignition Park's first business opening; the $153 million figure as printed there).
3. Notre Dame Energy / Notre Dame News, April 18, 2017 — Aunalytics founded 2012 by Nitesh Chawla; Aunsight. Sramana Mitra's 2021 interview series with Chawla — the 2011 discussions, Graham Allen seed funding, Aunsight's 2013 launch, ~300 staff with ~200 in South Bend.
4. South Bend Regional Chamber, June 15, 2016 (from the South Bend Tribune) — Aunalytics and Data Realty into Catalyst One, May 2016; 15,000 sq ft shared; ~45 employees combined; Data Realty's data center at Ignition Park since 2012.
5. Mendoza College of Business / Notre Dame, 2015 — Vennli founded 2013 on Joe Urbany's research with Gary Gigot; the 2015 Mira Award; the 1st Source Bank Commercialization Award. South Bend Tribune via Notre Dame Public Affairs, October 26, 2014 — Gigot's move from Seattle; 79 beta customers; 20 employees.
6. CRN, 2025, and CB Insights' Trek10 profile — founded 2013, South Bend; AWS Premier Tier; Caylent acquisition, October 2025. Trek10 founder interview (DoD Contract podcast account) — Abercrombie, Fimbel, the 2011 AWS foothold at a South Bend data center.
7. CB Insights, Nimbello profile — 7321 Heritage Sq., Suite 2140, Granger, Indiana 46530; directory grade.