Michigan Technology News and Entrepreneurs
DETROIT - Three highly successful South Asian entrepreneurs will be the featured speakers Oct. 29 at the Immigrant Entrepreneur event at Wayne State University, hosted by TiE Detroit. Co-sponsors include the WSU College of Engineering, the James and Patricia Anderson Institute, Blackstone LaunchPad, Fakhoury Law Group, and Global Detroit. The event, at the Engineering Auditorium
AUBURN HILLS - DetectIR Technologies, Flipsi, FoodJunky, GolfClicks, KTISIS, StenDev, Transition Coordination Services and VizBe are the eight finalists selected for the Macomb Pitch 2015 competition Oct. 8. After receiving nearly 40 applications, and participating in through Pitch Preps, the eight start-ups will compete for more than $20,000 in cash and in-kind prizes. Prizes: First
ANN ARBOR - Rapidly growing LLamasoft, a supply chain software company, announced Tuesday that it has closed a $50 million Series B financing round with affiliates of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Co-Founder Toby Brzoznowski said the money will be used to accelerate the development “of disruptive new technologies” that could now be released early next
FARMINGTON HILLS - Great Lakes Angels is hosting on Oct. 15 the Angel Investing Overview, an Angel Resource Institute education program on angel investing. Angel Investing Overview is the leading seminar for educating angel investors, entrepreneurs, and startup support professionals about how to execute the angel investment process. The AIO will teach you best practices
DETROIT - Last week at Techonomy a brand new challenge was announced and is now open for submissions from local entrepreneurs. Got a great idea for improving transportation? You can now apply to receive up to $250,000 in investments from IdeaMarket for an innovative idea in transportation. http://www.michipreneur.com/now-open-ideamarket-transportation-challenge/
TROY - Automation Alley Wednesday launched 7Cs Second Stage, an extension of Automation Alley’s exclusive entrepreneurship program, created to accelerate the growth of Southeast Michigan’s small businesses and startups - with a specific focus on advanced manufacturing. 7Cs Second Stage will be eligible to any technology or manufacturing-based company from five to 100 employees in
DETROIT - Matt Miller, a partner in Silicon Valley-based Sequoia Capital, will be at Bamboo Detroit on Friday from 5 -8 pm where he will be interviewed by Startup Grind (a Google for Entrepreneur’s program) founder Derek Anderson. Sequoia Capital was founded in 1972 to help pioneer Silicon Valley making early investments in Apple, Google, PayPal, Ciso,
ANN ARBOR - PHASIQ, a healthcare company, is the first investment of the student-led venture capital fund, Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund. Terms were not disclosed. PHASIQ provides a cheaper, faster, and more accurate solution to test for multiple proteins on a single patient sample. The Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund is the first and only institutional
LANSING - The Michigan Celebrates Small Business Awards program opened for nominations this week for the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch Awards, honoring second stage companies that have posted minimum annual revenue of $750,000. Each year fifty companies are chosen from hundreds of applicants and this year the program judges expect to be looking at
GRAND RAPIDS - Davenport University announced it has received a gift to its endowment fund of $5.5 million over the next four years from the M.E. Davenport Foundation, the single largest gift in the University's history. The latest gift brings historical giving to Davenport University by the independent, family foundation to more than $15.4 million.
