Katie Birge
Board Member
Katie Birge is the VP Platform at M25, an early stage VC firm focused on Midwest headquartered startups. Katie is a lifelong Hoosier born and raised in Jasper, Indiana. She studied Communication and Classical Civilization at DePauw University before heading to Indiana University for her MA in Telecommunications (think social informatics and innovation communities...not telegrams and TVs).
Katie’s thesis that startups will help the industrial Midwest rise again led her to the Bloomington Technology Partnership, where she started Bloomington Code School and co-founded an accelerator while growing the college town’s tech community and giving her the perfect foundation for the work she does today.
Katie has worked in the trenches of software companies and startups and prior to joining M25 served as executive director of Launch Indy, an entrepreneurship center and coworking space. Katie is a long-time organizer of the Combine tech conference and in her free time, she quilts and plays an old brass instrument in the Indianapolis Liederkranz German Band.
