ANN ARBOR - Michigan Angels closed a $2 million Angel 4 Fund on December 31 from 49 investors. Manager Skip Simms said five investments were made from that fund, with five more planned over the next 18 months. Those five investments include: Akadeum Life Sciences (Ann Arbor) SkySpecs (Ann Arbor) Ripple Scientific (Ann Arbor) Facility
BIRMINGHAM - Birmingham Angels, part of CitySide Ventures, invested $518,000 in startups from September to December 2019. Among the companies, the group is invested in Commando Lock, REZA, Cask & Kettle, Adlore Inc, FanLabel and Club Caddie and few others that are in the process. “We are noticing a significant increase in the level of
ANN ARBOR - Cannabis business entrepreneur Charlie Strackbein started the Ann Arbor Monroe Street Fair two decades ago to provide support for the Ann Arbor Hash Bash, a counterculture weed festival that began in April 1972 on the Diag at the University of Michigan. This year’s installment is scheduled for Saturday April 4 and will
EAST LANSING - Two Supported Intelligence alums recently were awarded a U.S. Patent for a cutting edge Artificial Intelligence technology. The patent went to Jeff Johnson and Neal Anderson. Supported Intelligence develops consumer-friendly AI applications. Their new patent, number 10,546,248, is entitled “System and Method for Defining and Calibrating a Sequential Decision Problem Using Historical
LIVONIA—The American Society of Employers, Michigan’s largest employer association, has released its “2020 Starting Salaries for Co-op Students and Recent College Graduates Survey." The survey of 121 companies provides a comprehensive look at the current state of wages and benefits provided to co-op students and recent college graduates. The top five in-state institutions the responding
ROYAL OAK - Heidi Raubenolt, Executive Director of Mercy Education Project, provides details on a $100,000 grant from Verizon For STEAM education for women in Detroit. Kate O’Hara will announce the STEAM Network for Entrepreneurs. Jamie Lowell from JazzCabbage Cafe will predict the top Cannabis news for 2020. Richard Stiennon will bring copes of his
BOYNE CITY—Industrial Magnetics Inc. announced the construction of a new, 6,000-square-foot application testing center for customers who are interested in the recovery or separation of ferrous and non-ferrous metals in recycling-related industries. The lab, located in Fort Wayne, Ind., is slated for completion in the spring of 2020 and will operate as a satellite location
ANN ARBOR—Esperion Therapeutics Inc. has announced that the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has issued a “positive opinion” for both its bempedoic acid and its benpedoic acid-ezetimibe tablets to treat high cholesterol and other risky conditions involving lipids in the bloodstream. Company officials said the committee “found there were no
DETROIT - On January 31, Gage Cannabis Co. opened Cookies, a new flagship cannabis provisioning center in the heart of Detroit, with a mammoth blue street party on 8 Mile Road. Based in the Bay Area, Cookies' Founder and CEO Berner is a prolific rapper and entrepreneur along with his partner, Jigga, a highly respected
LIVONIA – WorkForce Software has rolled out a new suite that lets employees view and customize information directly from their employers on laptops, tablet or mobile devices. An employee can open their employer app and see exactly what they want in the format that they want. This could be pay, bonuses, commissions, time and attendance,
