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EAST LANSING - April Clobes, CEO of the MSU Federal Credit Union and its investment arm, ResedaGroup.Com, provides details on Reseda's recent $8 million investment in four promising Fintech startups. She also says Reseda is looking for more Fintech companies in which to invest. https://youtu.be/-4clEnAbiD8
BIRMINGHAM - Great Lakes Angels Fund and Birmingham Angels added five startups in December to its portfolio. Those companies are: Need Anything Kind Katch Catalyst Ulendo Wide Awake VR City Side Ventures is a driven venture group of experienced business builders, die-hard serial entrepreneurs, disrupters, innovators, and technologists. We are more than just traditional investors;
DETROIT - General Motors has announced plans to invest $918 million in four U.S. plants, including two in Michigan, to make the sixth generation Small Block V-8 Engine. An extra $64 million will go toward EV production. The plants are in Flint, Bay City, Defiance, Ohio and Rochester, New York. Flint will receive more than
SOUTHFIELD– At a time when lawmakers in Washington D.C. just passed a $370 billion clean energy and climate bill, the largest climate investment in US history – Michigan’s cleantech leaders will gather Aug. 25 for a C3 Summit, focused on climate technology. The C3 Summit represents cleantech, climatech and circular economy businesses involved in products
LANSING – General Motors announced Tuesday it will spend $7 billion on four factories, including some $2.6 billion in the Lansing area to build electric vehicle batteries. Another $4 billion will be invested to convert its existing factory in Orion Township to make electric pickups. GM also plans to spend about $500 million to upgrade
BIRMINGHAM - Birmingham Angels, managed by City Side Ventures, has made investments in two companies that presented to the group in September. The two companies were REZA (high end streetwear shoes, etc.) and Commando Lock (building the highest quality locks seen in the US market in recent memory). A Kauffman Foundation study showed 90% of
GRAND RAPIDS - Venture capital investors made fewer deals in Michigan during the third quarter than the same period a year earlier, although the amount invested more than tripled. VC firms invested $169.6 million in 26 deals in Michigan from July to September, according to a quarterly report from Pitchbook.com and the National Venture Capital
SEATTLE - Record unicorn financings drove 2017 total Venture Capital investments to $84 billion, the largest amount since the early 2000s during the Dot-Com Era, according to the PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor. Over the past several years, the VC industry has evolved as VC-backed companies stay private longer and command larger deal sizes. With fewer transactions
LONDON, England - A deeper look into the venture capital investments in Fintech suggests that the gradual increase witnessed since 2014 has now shown a spurt in 2017. In the first three quarters of 2017, 455 investment cases have been announced for bands above $5 million, marking a surge of 23 percent over the average
