Michigan Technology News and Entrepreneurs
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.
MIDLAND - The traditional capital market for startups is broken, but a growing network of angel investors are stepping in to fill the void of early-stage companies getting funding. Ken Kousky, CEO at MMIC and President of BlueWater Angels, will lead this in-depth workshop on the fundamentals of angel investing and the steps you must
DETROIT - More than $200,000 has been pooled to provide micro grants through Eastern Market to support food-based small businesses in metropolitan Detroit. The money comes from Citizens Bank, Eastern Market Corporation, and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. Citizens Bank donated $60,000 and the MEDC $150,000. The application deadline is August 21. Grants will be
ANN ARBOR - In the wake of the second round of layoffs at ForeSee, Duo Security has actively begun recruiting former ForeSee employees who were part of a round of layoffs announced Wednesday by parent company Answers Corporation. To read the rest of this story, click on http://www.mlive.com/business/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/07/duo_security_assisting_former.html Author: Matt Durr Source: MLive.Com Date: 7/15/2015
TROY - Syntel Thursday announced it is a presenting sponsor for the Enactus India National Competition to be held at the Leela Ambience, Gurgaon, India on July 21 and 22. Enactus is a global non-profit organization operating in 36 countries. Enactus student members have spent the year working on entrepreneurial projects designed to positively impact the quality of
WASHINGTON DC - Venture capitalists invested $17.5 billion in 1,189 deals in the second quarter of 2015, the first time since the fourth quarter of 2000 that VC investing has exceeded $17 Billion. Software companies captured $7.3 Billion of this total, the highest ever recorded. So says the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the
