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Michigan Startup Winners Can Now Land $375,000 As PitchMI Competition Begins

GRAND RAPIDS — Five Michigan defense and aerospace startups will compete Sept. 15 for a winner-take-all $375,000 investment, kicking off a statewide competition designed to identify young companies that could become Michigan's next generation of high-paying employers. And considerably more money awaits. The winner of the Grand Rapids PitchMI semifinal advances to the statewide championship

By |2026-09-14T10:58:57-04:00September 14th, 2026|Entrepreneurs, ESD|
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Michigan Needs More Venture Capital — Its 48,000 Bioscience Jobs Show Why

MVCA's VentureTrack 2026 will train Michigan's next generation of venture investors as the state tries to turn research and startups into companies producing high-paying jobs. Michigan's $56 billion bioscience industry shows what's at stake. ANN ARBOR — Michigan has nearly 48,000 bioscience jobs paying an average $110,204 a year. A statewide effort to train more

By |2026-08-17T20:54:27-04:00August 17th, 2026|Entrepreneurs, Life Sciences, Life Sciences/Biotech|
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MITechNews Is Building The Definitive Record Of Michigan’s AI Economy.

ANN ARBOR – Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming Michigan's economy. From manufacturing and mobility to healthcare, cybersecurity, finance, education, agriculture and defense, AI is changing how businesses operate and creating a new generation of innovative startups. Yet many of those companies remain largely unknown outside their own industries. MITechNews wants to change that. Beginning this

By |2026-07-28T16:50:43-04:00July 22nd, 2026|Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Featured|
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Michigan Startup Competition Offers $2 Million In Funding To Early-Stage Companies

LANSING – Michigan entrepreneurs developing the next generation of artificial intelligence, defense, healthcare and advanced manufacturing technologies have a chance to compete for more than $2 million in prize funding through the 2026-2027 PitchMI startup competition. Applications are now open for PitchMI, a statewide startup competition led by the Michigan State University Research Foundation in

By |2026-07-21T09:53:34-04:00July 21st, 2026|Entrepreneurs, News|
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Velocity Emerging Defense Tech 5X5 Pitch Competition Offers Cash Prizes

STERLING HEIGHTS - Eighty years after Detroit became the Arsenal of Democracy, the Pentagon is once again turning to Detroit, which helped win World War II. Velocity, an MEDC SmartZone located in the Sterling Heighta, is hosting the Velocity Emerging Defense Tech 5X5 Pitch Competition during the Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering & Technology Symposium at

By |2026-07-20T11:04:24-04:00July 20th, 2026|Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, ESD, mitechtv|
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Michigan Keeps Creating Great Ideas. Why Do Startups Leave?

New Innovation Alliance hopes to turn more Michigan inventions into Michigan companies—and keep billions of dollars in future value from leaving the state. LANSING - For decades, Michigan has been one of America's great innovation engines. The state is home to world-class research universities, global automotive and manufacturing companies, a growing artificial intelligence sector, and

By |2026-08-24T11:52:51-04:00July 10th, 2026|Economy, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Government/Politics, News, Politics, Politics/Government|
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MCWT Highlights Camp Infinity, Golf Outings, Gala And Networking Events In New Video Interview

ANN ARBOR - In a video interview with Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation's Kathleen Norton-Schock, MCWT highlighted its upcoming Camp Infinity summer technology camps, networking opportunities, volunteer programs, golf fundraisers, and annual Signature Gala. The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation (MCWT) has announced a full schedule of summer and fall events,

By |2026-07-07T02:58:18-04:00June 24th, 2026|Announcements/New Products, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, mitechtv|
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Why Michigan Isn’t Creating Enough Billion-Dollar Startups — And Why Ann Arbor Thinks It Has The Answer

ANN ARBOR  — Michigan helped invent the modern auto industry, remains one of America's top engineering centers, and is home to one of the nation's leading research universities. So why isn't the state creating more billion-dollar technology companies? That's the question increasingly confronting Michigan business leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, and policymakers as states like Texas, Colorado,

By |2026-05-31T12:27:03-04:00May 31st, 2026|Business, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, News|
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Veteran Michigan Business Journalists Launch Boutique Executive Thought Leadership & Industry Visibility Agency

ANN ARBOR — As artificial intelligence floods the internet with generic content and shrinking attention spans make visibility harder than ever, two veteran Michigan business journalists are launching a boutique executive communications and thought leadership agency designed to help companies “own the conversation” in their industries. Longtime technology journalists Mike Brennan and Matt Roush have

By |2026-05-28T12:12:42-04:00May 28th, 2026|Entrepreneurs, ESD, Featured, New Products, New Products / Contracts|
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Michigan Launches Innovation Alliance As State Struggles To Keep Startups From Leaving

LANSING - Michigan’s innovation economy faces a growing competitiveness problem: Michigan ranks 32nd nationally in early- and growth-stage startup funding, according to a 2025 innovation scorecard from Business Leaders for Michigan. Leading innovation states including California, Washington and Colorado have grown their innovation economies at “twice the rate or more of Michigan” over the past

By |2026-05-28T10:43:16-04:00May 28th, 2026|Business, Entrepreneurs, Featured, Government/Politics, Politics, Politics/Government|
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