DETROIT - Great Lakes Angels Fund, managed by City Side Ventures, is promoting a seminar March 13 on Angel Investing: “Introduction to Angel Investing – is it for me?” The format will be an overview of who are angels, what angel investing is all about, how they fit in the financing of startups and include
ROYAL OAK - Tom Tisko, BullsEye Telecom's New CEO, joins Matt and Mike on M2 Techcast to talk about how he plans to transform the nearly 20 year old Southfield, MI., based company and upgrade the technology skills of its more than 200 employees. Tom Tisko To listen, click on https://soundcloud.com/mike-brennan-841872555/e158-tom-tisko-bullseye-telecoms-new-ceo
DETROIT - Paul Riser Jr. has been named the inaugural director of Detroit Urban Solutions, a technology innovation consortium seeking to advance the growth of Detroit’s technology ecosystem and develop cutting edge solutions to challenges facing Detroit and similar urban areas. Since 2014, Riser has served as Managing Director of Technology-Based Entrepreneurship at TechTown Detroit,
ROYAL OAK - J.D. Collins, the new State Director for the Michigan Small Business Development Center, introduces himself and explains what the MISBDC does to help entrepreneurs make their dreams come true. J.D. Collins To listen, click on https://soundcloud.com/mike-brennan-841872555/e157-jd-collins-state-director-misbdc
ROYAL OAK - Long time media personality Dan Keelan announces on M2 TechCast that he's a partner in a new publication that will focus on the business of Legalized Marijuana in Michigan. M2 TechCast co-host Mike Brennan is his business partner. The publication will include not only guest columns from Marijuana business experts, but interviews
GRAND RAPIDS – Inductive Intelligence, nominated by the Michigan Small Business Development Center, has been selected to represent the work of America’s Small Business Development Centers at the Fourth Annual Client Showcase Reception on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on February 12. Inductive Intelligence is one of ten businesses selected from across the ASBDC’s national
ANN ARBOR - The Michigan Angel Fund has invested in four women-founded technology companies - what Managing Partner Skip Simms described as “purely coincidental.” But, Simms senior vice president of Ann Arbor SPARK, added the investments can be viewed as a marker of a growing trend of women-led companies. He said outcomes of that shift
DETROIT - Long-time entrepreneur Jane Sydlowski has been named the 2019 president for the Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation. Sydlowski replaces Rebecca Bray, who led the organization last year. Sydlowski is founder and CEO of AMI Strategies, a software data management company. She has been an MCWT volunteer and leader for more than
DETROIT – As China continues to rise in its global importance, its huge domestic market promises many expansion opportunities for US companies. Despite of all the anxiety and media buzz around the current tension between US and China, there is one platform that is approaching things more transparently and strategically – InnoSTARS. In its 3rd
KALAMAZOO - Innovative Cardiovascular Solutions LLC, the developer of a device to improve patient safety during a heart procedure, closed on $8 million in capital raised to support clinical trials and production. The Series C capital round supports further development of Kalamazoo-based Innovative Cardiovascular Solutions’ Emblok Embolic Protection System that’s designed to collect debris in the
