LANSING - Prima Civitas Foundation on Tuesday awarded ten mini-grants worth $45,000 to Mid-Michigan organizations that will host a variety of Entrepreneur and Inventor Days to showcase new businesses or hot new technologies. The awards are funded by a grant received from the C.S. Mott Foundation in October 2007. A competitive bid process was announced
BLOOMFIELD HILLS - The Deal Gateway will host its monthly Deal Incubator event Feb. 5 to connect business owners and entrepreneurs with potential business partners and investors. The February meeting runs from 4 -6 p.m. at 1760 S. Telegraph Rd. in Bloomfield Hills at the offices of Hertz Schram PC. The Deal Incubator is geared
KALAMAZOO - Metabolic Solutions Development Co., a therapeutics company, is the sixth investment for the Southwest Michigan First Life Sciences Fund. The company was founded in Kalamazoo in 2006 by two retired Pfizer scientists, Rolf Kletzien, PhD, and Jerry Colca, PhD. Their scientific strategy is build on understanding insulin-sensitizing thiazolidinediones to create a new generation
DETROIT - A. Paul Schaap, former Wayne State University chemistry professor and founder of Southfield-based Lumigen Inc., and his wife Carol, have donated $7.7 million to support expansion of the Chemistry Building and the A. Paul and Carol C. Schaap Endowed Distinguished Graduate Stipend Fund. WSU, pending approval by the Board of Governors, will name
GRAND RAPIDS - IT services and consulting firm NuSoft Solutions has hired Matthew Matlosz as Account Executive. Matlosz is responsible for sales, project leadership and management of NuSoft's local and national accounts. Matlosz is based at NuSoft?s Michigan?s office and will serve clients throughout the region. Matlosz joins NuSoft from Kforce, where he worked as
TROY - Automation Alley will discuss its 2007 accomplishments, initiatives for 2008, and elect the 2008 Board of Directors, including a new board president at its annual meeting Jan. 31 at the Troy Marriott. Remarks will be made by: * Jerry Rush, outgoing president, Automation Alley * Ken Rogers, executive director, Automation Alley * Thomas
SAN FRANCISCO, Ca. - For green-tech start-ups, 2008 could be the year of either break-neck speed or just hitting the brakes. A tidal wave of venture capital has poured into clean tech over the past four years, reflecting the confidence investors and entrepreneurs have that high energy prices and climate change make the sector ripe
KALAMAZOO ? BlueGranite has signed an agreement with Microsoft to serve as a Business Intelligence Virtual Technical Specialist, which means employees of the IT consulting company can serve as virtual Microsoft employees with some clients. Matthew Mace, president and CEO of BlueGranite, which has sold and supported Microsoft products since the company was founded in
ANN ARBOR - The Michigan Innovation Equipment Depot will open January 31 from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. to distribute consumables to companies that qualify. Biotechnology companies also will have the chance to review the $6 million in laboratory equipment donated by Pfizer. To qualify you must have a Certificate of Eligibility from a Michigan SmartZone
TROY ? The application deadline for ConnecTech's new Mentoring program, created through a unique partnership with the Midwest Technology Leaders to match members with local CIOs, has been extended to Feb. 15. Danielle DeLonge, ConnecTech Manager, said the deadline was rolled back two weeks because ConnecTech has decided to work with other state technology and