Second wave, one by one: three tests that return boundary or nothing

INCUBATOR-GRADUATE · PROFESSOR-FOUNDED · SERVERLESS — EACH TESTED SEPARATELY

The incubator-graduate test: Run separately, as the baseline requires: no firm in the record reached is a Mishawaka-seated graduate of an incubator or accelerator. The region's graduation stories are Notre Dame's and South Bend's — Data Realty, Innovation Park's first graduate in that build's telling, is South Bend's. Mishawaka has no incubator of its own in the record reached: no Bethel incubator (see the pipeline article), no city incubator, no accelerator cohort seated here.

The professor-founded test: Run separately: no firm in the record reached was founded by a Bethel University professor, or by any professor seated in Mishawaka. The pattern's local instance is again across the river — Aunalytics, the professor's data company, is Notre Dame's and South Bend's. The test returns a negative at that strength; its settling source is Bethel's own faculty and alumni record, the same archive named in the pipeline article.

The serverless test: Run separately: no serverless or cloud-native consultancy is seated in Mishawaka in the record reached. The pattern's instance — Trek10, the serverless firm founded in South Bend and sold to a national AWS partner in October 2025, in that build's record — is South Bend's, boundary-named. Mishawaka's cloud record is the services layer of the Pinnacle article above: firms that move regional customers onto other companies' clouds, not a firm that built its name on one cloud's newest architecture. Three tests, three returns: boundary, negative, boundary. The second wave in Mishawaka, printed whole, is one Etsy-era brand, one six-person modeling consultancy, and a services layer — and the leg that printed them as a "thriving tech scene" would be lying at exactly the size of these three articles.

Sources:

1. Section searches, November 2026 — the three category tests as run (incubator/accelerator graduates seated in Mishawaka; Bethel-faculty-founded firms; serverless/cloud-native firms seated in Mishawaka), each returning no Mishawaka instance in the record reached; settling sources named in the article.
2. The South Bend build's dot-com leg — Data Realty (incubator graduate), Aunalytics (professor-founded) and Trek10 (serverless; sold October 2025) carried whole. Boundary-printed here at pointer size.