Michigan Technology News and Entrepreneurs
TROY - Automation Alley has been awarded $45,000 from the Business Accelerator Fund to assist local tech startup Halley Orthopedics. Halley Orthopedics, recently named Startup of the Year at Automation Alley’s 15th Annual Awards Gala, is improving patient lives and helping transform the U.S. healthcare system with its X10 integrated recovery system for knee patients.
FERNDALE – Automation Alley Executive Director Ken Rogers talks about Automation Alley, the technology networking group for Southeast Michigan. Joining him in this conversation at M2 TechCast on the PodcastDetroit network is Andrew Basile Jr., from Young Basile, which has offices in Silicon Valley, Troy and Ann Arbor. Andy talks about what the entrepreneurial community
TROY - Billhighway has brought on Millennial talent with three new interns for Fall 2015. Paige Kooiker will be holding the role of a Graphic Design Intern for the Marketing Team, Amanda VanFleteren will support the Finance Team in an intern role, and Kelsey Ryan will join them as the Team Member Success Intern. Kooiker graduated
FARMINGTON HILLS – Great Lakes Angels will be vetting four possible investment opportunities for members on Oct. 29 at UHY Advisors. Non-members may attend up to two events without Membership. Future meetings will require membership or invitation by a member until joining. Members and non-members register now or no later than October 25th to participate to the
DETROIT - Startup Weekend, the popular weekend long event for starting a company, is back to Detroit but this time for a much younger crowd. Youth can come and join in on the fun for a very special Digital Innovation Competition for Kids. Startup Weekend Detroit – Youth is coming to Ford Field November 6-8, 2015
DETROIT - New startup Akadeum Life Sciences closed a round of funding this month that brings them to a total of $1 Million in funding. The life sciences startup in Ann Arbor has found a unique way to improve diagnostics. “We improve life science research and diagnostics by capturing cells with microbubbles,” said Brandon McNaughton, Co-founder and
ANN ARBOR – University of Michigan spin-out, Sakti3, has been acquired by vacuum cleaner manufacturer Dyson, which plans to incorporate its solid-state Lithium-ion technology to improved battery life on its cordless vacuums – plus deliver new products and build a battery production plant. The deal was reported to be worth $90 million. Dyson founder James
ANN ARBOR - Blaze Medical Devices has been awarded a $150,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Food and Drug Administration, in collaboration with University of Michigan Health System Center for Circulatory Support. The focus of this grant is to study damage to patients’ red blood cells caused by left ventricular assist
GRAND RAPIDS - Open Systems Technologies announced it has been chosen by CRN Magazine as a 2015 Triple Crown Winner. The Triple Crown Winner list features the most elite solution provider companies in North America as featured on CRN’s Solution Provider 500, Tech Elite 250, and Fast Growth 150 lists in 2015. OST was recognized on each
DETROIT – Seventy five percent of Southeast Michigan businesses surveyed have implemented so-called Eureka! Technologies - from new computer installations, to creating new patentable products - within the past year. With each new technological change or innovation, the workforce has been forced to adapt and respond to stay competitive in the new economy, contends a
