The $100 Million Company You May Not Know Is in Dublin

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Dozens of Dublin residents showed up to council chambers this week to hear more about the city's plan to bring in sharpshooters to manage the local deer population. A recent count found 528 deer across the city, according to the Columbus Dispatch.

Per the city's own program page, removals will run Nov. 1 through March 31, at night, on city land only — not private property. USDA Wildlife Services professionals will handle the removals in partnership with Dublin Police, who'll clear the area beforehand. Exact locations haven't been finalized, but residents will be notified through a citywide mailing before anything starts. The venison goes to the Dublin Food Pantry.

At the meeting, Ohio Division of Wildlife assistant supervisor Geoff Westerfield told residents sharpshooters tend to target older, larger does, aiming for an instant kill — describing the approach as controlled, not indiscriminate, according to the Dispatch.

Dublin's next public session on the program is Oct. 8, 6 to 7:30 p.m. at City Hall.

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Dublin Jerome has some pretty high expectations heading into girls soccer season — and one of the players expected to lead the way just landed on the Dispatch’s list of 12 Central Ohio players to watch.

Junior forward Blake Sobczak scored 15 goals with five assists last season, earning OCC-Cardinal Player of the Year along with first-team all-state and all-district honors. She’s also already committed to play at Mississippi State.

And this may be about more than individual honors. Jerome went 12-2-4 last year, won a district championship and made it to the regional semifinal before losing 2-1 to Olentangy Berlin in double overtime.

With several key players back, that makes Jerome girls soccer another Dublin team worth keeping an eye on this fall — and Sobczak is one of the reasons why.

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There’s a company headquartered in Dublin with over $100 million in annual revenue — and there’s a decent chance you’ve never heard of it.

InnoSource works largely behind the scenes, recruiting and employing workers for other companies and increasingly taking responsibility for entire business functions.

CEO Chad Delligatti has been at it for more than 25 years, but the entrepreneurial streak came much earlier. He built a lawn-mowing business with 30 to 40 customers growing up, then at Ohio University once bought an entire Hallmark shipment of Beanie Babies on credit, drove them to an event in Parkersburg and sold them in less than an hour. In 2000, one of his former lawn-mowing customers recruited him to a tiny company he’d started called InnoSource. Delligatti joined when it had only a handful of employees.

Today, Delligatti owns InnoSource alongside a new partner, the Ohio Fund, and their next big bet is AI. The goal is to grow the company beyond $300 million in revenue over the next five years, with AI helping employees do more work faster and more accurately — not simply replacing them. InnoSource is developing tools for customer service, manufacturing, logistics and recruiting, while also putting engineers and industry experts inside client companies to help them figure out how to actually use the technology. Their own AI tool is called Minnie AI, named after Delligatti’s black German shepherd, Minnie.

As InnoSource grows nationally, its Dublin headquarters should grow along with it. The company is currently elsewhere in town but plans to move into a new headquarters on Wall Street. Delligatti told us staying in Dublin was an easy decision: he sees the schools, parks, Bridge Park and broader business community as an ecosystem that makes it easier to attract people and build a company here.

And for Delligatti, that connection is personal too. His family has called the Dublin area home for more than two decades, his kids attend Jerome, and his wife Adrienne spent 20 years at Ashland Chemical before starting my personal favorite, Dells Homemade Ice Cream & Coffee. So while much of InnoSource’s work happens far beyond Dublin, the company’s next chapter is being built right here — and we’ll have a front-row seat as they try to turn a $100-million Dublin business into a $300-million one.

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