YPSILANTI - Michigan-based business owners will share their success with aspiring entrepreneurs as the Eastern Michigan University College of Business presents the Sesi Midwest Entrepreneurship Conference on February 11 at the EMU Student Center. The conference will focus on Innovation and Green entrepreneurship in Michigan. The keynote speaker will be Elizabeth Redmond, founder and president
ANN ARBOR ? BioPhotonic Solutions of East Lansing won the $5000 first place award in the Emerging Company category at the Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest business-plan competition Tuesday night at the ACE'12 entrepreneurship event at Skyline High School. BioPhotonic Soutions owns disruptive technology that unleashes the latent capabilities of an entire class of lasers ?
GRAND RAPIDS - Student and faculty volunteers from Davenport University are trained and ready to kick off free income tax preparation sessions, available to low- and middle- income tax-filers (less than $50,000 in total family income) at locations across West Michigan. Volunteers are providing assistance in conjunction with the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, a
TROY ? Scott Goemmel of All Covered, a division of Konica Minolta Business Solutions, is the new president of Automaton Alley. Mark Symonds, CEO of Plex Systems, is the new vice president, the Southeast Michigan technology networking group announced Wednesday. Other members of the Automation Alley 2012 Board of Directors include: Please join us in
TROY - Venture Michigan Fund II announced Monday it has made a $15 million investment in Flagship Ventures Fund IV, which invests in early-stage and later-stage companies. The Massachusetts company does not yet have a Michigan office. Credit Suisse?s Customized Fund Investment Group manages VMF II, which will make investment commitments totaling $120 million to
ANN ARBOR ? Ann Arbor SPARK is hosting another entrepreneur Boot Camp in March where participants will spend two full days learning how to identify critical issues for their business plans. Participants also will get an intensive and instructive way to gain critical feedback and advice about your business model, management team, competitive positioning, market
LANSING - The Michigan Strategic Fund and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation Tuesday announced a public hearing Feb 8 to accept questions and comments on the new Pure Michigan Venture Match Fund, which will providing matching investments in Michigan start-ups of up to $3 million. The hearing is scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon on
ANN ARBOR - Organizers of the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium issued its call for presenting companies for the 31st annual event. The final applications deadline is March 6. Each year, the Symposium serves as a conduit for introducing early stage and emerging growth companies seeking funding to U.S. investors prospecting deals. It has also played
ANN ARBOR - A miniature, battery-free, wireless, cardiac implant being developed by a University of Michigan researcher and Ypsilanti-based Integrated Sensing Systems Inc. has received $1.5 million grant that could help it land patents more quickly. The National Institutes of Health grant will help a research team led by Martin Bocks, M.D. and ISSYS to
ANN ARBOR ? One Detroit and two Ann Arbor companies have received investments from the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund, totaling $585,000, fund officials said Wednesday. The investments went to Detroit-based Clean Emission Fluids Inc. and Estrakon and IX Innovations, both in Ann Arbor. CEF manufactures patent-pending onsite fuel and fluid mixing stations for commercial truck