ANN ARBOR – The Michigan Growth Capital Symposium has attracted 27 sponsoring organizations for its two-day event that matches investors to promising startups, located primarily in Michigan and the Midwest.
The annual Midwest equity event which will be held May 14-15, 2008 at the Marriott Resort at Eagle Crest in Ypsilanti, has yet to name the 30 companies from among a field of 50 applicants. Selected companies will be contacted on
April 3 and the entire lineup will be publicly unveiled at the event on May 14.
MGCS, now in its 27th year, is hosted by the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and its Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance of the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies.
The 2008 sponsor lineup includes:
Amherst Fund, LLC
Ann Arbor Spark
Apjohn Ventures
Arboretum Ventures
Automation Alley
Bank of Ann Arbor
Beringea
Bodman Attorneys & Counselors
Chrysalis Ventures
CMEA Ventures
Crain’s Detroit Business
Credit Suisse
Delphi
Dickinson Wright
Dow
DTE Energy
Dykema
EDF Ventures
Essex Woodlands Health Ventures
Honigman
Michigan Economic Development Corp.
Michigan Venture Capital Association
Miller Canfield
Pepper Hamilton LLP
The Ohio Capital Fund
Young Basile
Venture Investors LLC
This year the Michigan Venture
Capital Association and the Michigan Economic Development Corp. have
formed a partnership with MGCS as well.<./p>
Paul Cohn, vice president and regional director of the Ohio Capital
Fund, a $150-million fund-of-funds that invests in Ohio early-stage
companies and a supporting sponsor of MGCS, says a strong Midwest region
will serve as an attraction unto itself.
“We strongly believe that the
Midwest is a great place to found companies, and to invest in companies.
The Ohio Capital Fund sees MGCS as a means to build relationships with
venture capital firms from outside Ohio that may consider expanding their
investment focus to other states in the region,” said Cohn.
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