Rocket Community Fund

Detroit’s New Tech Grant Highlights Bigger Problem: Michigan Startups Struggle To Get The Capital They Need To Grow

DETROIT - Detroit’s launch of a new microgrant program aimed at helping small businesses adopt modern technology underscores a much larger challenge facing Michigan’s innovation economy: early-stage tech companies and digital-dependent small businesses are chronically underfunded at precisely the moment when technology investment is becoming essential to survival and growth. City officials, working with the

By |2026-01-25T19:34:46-05:00January 24th, 2026|Entrepreneurs, New Products, New Products / Contracts|

Gilbert Family Foundation, Rocket Community Fund To Make $500 Million Philanthropic Investment In Detroit

DETROIT - The Gilbert Family Foundation and Rocket Community Fund on Thursday announced an unprecedented and transformational $500 million philanthropic investment over the next ten years, to be accomplished through strategic contributions to community organizations that will build economic opportunity in Detroit neighborhoods. The Gilbert Family Foundation will contribute $350 million, and the Rocket Community

By |2021-03-25T21:19:10-04:00March 25th, 2021|Featured, New Products, New Products / Contracts|