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Delphinus Medical Technologies Gets $39.5 Million C Round

  PLYMOUTH TWP. - The ultrasound-based breast imaging technology developer Delphinus Medical Technologies Inc. says it has secured $39.5 million in new series C venture capital round - what the company contends is the single largest amount ever raised for a healthcare imaging company in the Midwest, as well as the largest for a medical

By |2015-09-14T00:00:00-04:00September 14th, 2015|Archive, Politics|

Chicago VC Sandbox Industries Working With MichBio To Screen Potential Investments

PLYMOUTH - Sandbox Industries, a Chicago-based venture capital firm, is interested in any company that is strategically relevant to health insurance within the healthcare IT and tech-enabled services space. Sandbox is interested in working with MichBio members in the following investment areas: Complex Care Management: New models to manage chronic disease patients and high cost

By |2015-09-10T00:00:00-04:00September 10th, 2015|Archive, Life Sciences|

Michigan Tech’s Female, Graduate Enrollment Soars

  HOUGHTON - Fall 2015 enrollment at Michigan Technological University is 7,238, the highest the school has seen in more than 30 years. Female enrollment is at a record high, with women making up 26.9 percent of the student body. Female enrollment in the College of Engineering rose to 26.7 percent, and the number of

By |2015-09-10T00:00:00-04:00September 10th, 2015|Archive, Politics|

2 Baker College Students Win $1,500 Scholarship To Study Photonics, Laser Technology

FLINT - Roger Fischer and Dennis LaPorte, Baker College of Flint students, have each been awarded a $1,500 scholarship funded by Mi-Light, the Michigan photonics cluster, to pursue an associate degree in photonics and laser technology. Photonics is the science of using a photon, a unit of light, to generate energy or to detect or

By |2015-09-10T00:00:00-04:00September 10th, 2015|Archive, New Products|

Michigan 50 Companies To Watch Nominations Now Open

  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

By |2015-09-10T00:00:00-04:00September 10th, 2015|Archive, Entrepreneur|

Meekhof Talks Roads, Energy As Fall Priorities

LANSING - Road funding, energy policy overhaul and addressing a dire situation with Detroit Public Schools topped the list of priorities from Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof on Wednesday as the Senate returned to work. Meekhof (R-West Olive) said little about road funding discussions - as has been the case with all of the leaders

By |2015-09-10T00:00:00-04:00September 10th, 2015|Archive, Politics|