VALPARAISO – The Entech Innovation Center held its grand opening Wednesday, Oct. 20, in the Eastport Centre, next to the Ivy Tech Community College campus.

            Executive Director Charlie McGill announced that the first floor of the business incubator is occupied by three companies. Negotiations are ongoing with a fourth firm to move into the center.

            The companies are IVDiagnostics, a biomedical companies; Handscribe, a web-based software company; Synergy Healthcare Resources, a medical billing firm; and Voice to Print Captioning, which converts the spoken word into print.