The second wave, named one by one

L81-7 · Each class tested separately — grouping them was the shortfall

Each of the four second-wave classes was tested separately for a seat in the Town of New Carlisle or Olive Township, and each result is printed separately below. The instruments common to all four tests were: web discovery joining “New Carlisle, Indiana” to the class term; regional tech-press and firm-registry style results for St. Joseph County tech firms; and the Notre Dame pipeline record in the boundary article above, read for any graduate or spinout whose seat is given as this town. A firm counts only if a source seats it in the town or township — not in South Bend, Mishawaka or Notre Dame, and not at a 46552 postal address in the wider county.

Class 1 — a data / analytics firm seated in town. Result: none found. No data, analytics, data-science or business-intelligence firm is documented with a New Carlisle or Olive Township seat in any source read. The large data presence physically near the town in the current record — Amazon Web Services’ Project Rainier campus for Anthropic, on former farmland along State Road 2 in the New Carlisle / Olive Township area of St. Joseph County — is a hyperscale data-center campus owned and operated by an outside firm (Amazon) for an outside customer (Anthropic). It is infrastructure hosted on this ground, not a data/analytics firm founded or seated as a town firm, and it belongs to the data-center history, not to this class. It is named here only to prevent its silent conversion into a “winner.”

Class 2 — an incubator-graduate firm seated in town. Result: none found. The county incubator line is Notre Dame’s: Innovation Park (opened 2009) and the IDEA Center (announced 2016, opened 2017 — see the unmerged conflict in the pipeline article). The University’s own accounting counts dozens of launches there — 59 ventures at Innovation Park on the facilities page; 27 IDEA Center startups in 2017–18 alone. In none of the launch lists or releases read for this section is a graduate firm seated in New Carlisle or Olive Township. The graduates are seated at the park, in South Bend, or elsewhere. Boundary result, negative for the town.

Class 3 — a professor-founded firm seated in town. Result: none found. The type specimen in the county record is F Cubed, founded on the research of Hsueh-Chia Chang, Bayer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Notre Dame; University public-affairs reporting states F Cubed started in Innovation Park in 2009 and later graduated to Notre Dame’s Hillcrest Hall, with manufacturing planned toward South Bend’s Ignition Park. Every seat in that chain is University or South Bend ground. No professor-founded firm — Notre Dame, or any other institution — is documented with a seat in this town.

Class 4 — a serverless firm seated in town. Result: none found. “Serverless” as a named architecture and business category postdates the first dot-com wave (the term’s commercial currency follows the mid-2010s cloud-function era). No firm describing itself, or described in regional tech press, as a serverless firm is documented with a New Carlisle or Olive Township seat. The irony is recorded without embroidery: the town now hosts, at Project Rainier, some of the largest server-farm infrastructure in the world — the opposite pole from “serverless” as a firm category, and again an outside firm’s campus, not a town firm.

Four classes, four separate negatives. Any one of them can be overturned by a single registry entry, incorporation record or dated press item seating such a firm in the town or township; none was found.

Sources:

1. Web discovery per class (“New Carlisle Indiana” + data/analytics firm; incubator graduate; professor-founded; serverless) — no town-seated firm returned in any class.
2. Notre Dame Facilities, Leighton Hall / Innovation Park — 59 ventures launched since 2009 opening; no New Carlisle seat stated.
3. ESTEEM / IDEA Center release, July 16, 2018 — 27 startups in 2017–18; no New Carlisle seat stated.
4. Notre Dame Public Affairs, “Innovation Park to Ignite Local Startup Community” — F Cubed, on Prof. Hsueh-Chia Chang’s research, started at Innovation Park 2009, graduated to Hillcrest Hall; boundary only.
5. Project Rainier coverage (New York Times via IEEE ComSoc Technology Blog, June 30, 2025; Data Center Dynamics) — AWS campus in New Carlisle, Ind., for Anthropic; outside firm’s infrastructure, not a town firm.