Michigan Technology News and Entrepreneurs
LANSING - From Detroit to Marquette, small businesses are growing, innovating and shaping their communities. Now the list of 2019 Michigan Celebrates Small Business Awardees has been released. 2019 Awardees Michigan 50 Distinguished Alumni Award – Strategically Focused MMI Engineered Solutions, Inc. – Saline Michigan 50 Distinguished Alumni Award – Most Engaged Workplace Armor Protective Packaging
CHICAGO - Digital media and events company Chicago Inno, highlighted 10 Detroit women whose initiatives are powerful winds behind Detroit’s sail. These 10 women are at the helm of fueling an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem in Detroit, the publication reports. And these women are: Talent Incubation April Boyle, Founder & Executive Director of Build Institute Kicking off
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Perceptions of the self-employed tend to go one of two ways. Either you believe self-employed workers have the best job ever, with a flexible schedule that allows them to take time off whenever they want, or you think they’re total workaholics, taking their job on vacation or to the family dinner
ROYAL OAK - Anthony Sabatella is the founder of THC123 metro Detroit company that provides payroll and staffing solutions for the Medical Marijuana Industry. Now with voters approving the legalization of recreational Marijuana, Sabatella is expanding into helping businesses that provide cannabis to the public startup and expand. He explains all in this M2 Techcast
DETROIT - Backstage Detroit, a three-month program designed to give underrepresented founders the support they need to reach the next critical milestone, is hosting its kick off party March 13 at the Lear Innovation center. Backstage, a national program, focuses on funding women and minorities. Companies participating in the Backstage Accelerator will receive $100,000 checks
DETROIT – Grand Rapids-based Grand Angels, one of the state’s most prominent angel investor groups, has launched Woodward Angels, a new angel investor group in Detroit. Woodward Angels is launching as an affiliate of Grand Angels Holding Co. LLC, the holding company for Grand Angels, and the Michigan Capital Network, which includes both Grand Angels
ROYAL OAK - Supported Intelligence, an East Lansing based Artificial Intelligence software developer, has again produced its "Smart Bracket" app that helps basketball enthusiasts crush the NCAA College Tournament office brackets...like scoring in the 97 percentile. CEO Patrick Anderson explain how in this episode of M2 TechCast. Patrick Anderson To purchase the Smart Bracket app,
DETROIT - The simple act of dressing oneself for one out of six people is a daily struggle. Enter magnetic buttons. Founder Gina Adams joins Matt Roush and Mike Brennan on M2 TechCast to explain how the Buttons 2 Button team developed a patent-pending, no-sew, adapter set that convert traditional shirts into magnetic closures to
ROYAL OAK - What’s happening with the Michigan Council of Women in Technology and whom has Diva Tech Talk interviewed lately. Kathleen Norton-Schock tells all in this interview on M2 Techcast with co-hosts Matt Roush and Mike Brennan. Kathleen Norton-Schock To listen, click on https://soundcloud.com/mike-brennan-841872555/e159-kathleen-norton-schock
ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan will make a $2.75 million initial investment into four U-M startups with potential funding of up to $20 million through subsequent financing rounds. The U-M Board of Regents approved the investments Thursday through the Michigan Investment in New Technology Startups initiative. The MINTS fund, which is overseen by the U-M
