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
LANSING - Many of the region's marketing professionals will gather at Digital Summit Detroit, Sept. 22-23, to discuss the latest trends and trajectory of arguably the most transformative field of business. The summit will be held at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit. The Michigan Film & Digital Media Office is a headlining
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
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
SANTA CLARA, Ca. - America's Greatest Makers (working title) is coming to television in 2016. Are you ready to build the next truly amazing device? Bring your big ideas to life with Intel, in collaboration with Mark Burnett, United Artists Media Group, and Turner Broadcasting System and compete for a $1 million grand prize? For
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
DETROIT - TEDxDetroit 2015 has released its speaker list for the Oct. 8 event at the Fox Theatre and it includes influencers like NASA's Dr. Cathy Olkin and the Consumer Electronic Association's Gary Shapiro. In its seventh year, the day-long event, sort of a peep rally for business and innovation, will draw upwards of two
SAN FRANCISCO - Just as we expected, Apple announced the next versions of its best-selling smartphones, the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. However, despite introducing a new color (rose gold), the iPhone 6S looks a whole lot like last year's iPhone 6- and most other iPhones - that came before. This follows the pattern that Apple
ANN ARBOR - Michigan entrepreneurs have a option for getting products to market faster, thanks to a matching funds program called Small Company Innovation Program, Technology and Commercialization Assistance (SCIP/TCA; pronounced "skip T-C-A"). In collaboration with all of Michigan's 15 public universities, Michigan startups can access university resources including faculty expertise, use of laboratory equipment,
ANN ARBOR - The concept of building great things appealed to my roots as a Michigander. For generations the people of Michigan have engineered great automobiles and built magnificent office furniture. It is exciting to see how this expertise in product development is influencing a new era of technology development in the Midwest. I believe