Michigan Technology News and Entrepreneurs
ANN ARBOR - Emily Heintz, Associate Director of the Michigan Venture Capital Association, has spent a decade working with a wide range of entrepreneurial support groups and startups, in which she found gaps in funding, talent and research that she felt needed to be filled. In March, Heintz launched EntryPoint, her gap-filling company she hopes
ANN ARBOR — NanoBio Corp., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced that it has changed its corporate name to BlueWillow Biologics in conjunction with the closing of a $10 million Series A financing. The company’s new name reflects its evolution to a vaccines-focused company, and commitment to advancing its novel intranasal technology to develop new vaccines
EAST LANSING —Five technology startups have been selected by Conquer Accelerator to participate in an innovative summer program that emphasizes smart planning and growth, extensive mentorship, and structured educational components. Designed to help both newer and established companies overcome business hurdles, the Conquer Accelerator The accelerator program is hosted and managed by Spartan Innovations, a wholly owned subsidiary
ANN ARBOR - Organizers of the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium Tuesday announced the list of companies that will present at the 37th annual event, which will be held May 15-16 at the Marriott Resort in Ypsilanti. A total of 32 companies, representing the best of the emerging growth companies in the Midwest that are actively
ROYAL OAK - Oakland County Tech248’s Greg Doyle interviews Yerko Sepluveda, creator of BackBeat, who benefited from the Oakland Entrepreneurial Alliance. BackBeat is a wearable, portable rumble pack and practice amp for bassists that turns every low note you play into a vibration you can feel. BackBeat has raised nearly $130,000 in a Kickstarter campaign.
ROYAL OAK - Kathleen Norton-Schock joins M2 TechCast co-hosts Mike Brennan and Matt Roush to talk about her podcast series, Diva Tech Talk, and the latest happenings with the Michigan Council of Women in Technology, including summer Science Technology Engineering and Math summer camps for high school girls. To listen, click on https://soundcloud.com/internet-advisor-755109612/m2-techcast-episode-124-kathleen-nofton-schock
GRAND RAPIDS - Lambert, Edwards & Associates Inc., already one of the largest pubic relations agencies in the state, got bigger this week when the company announced it had acquired Owen Blicksilver Public Relations Inc. of New York City. Terms of the deal were not announced. Through this acquisition, Lambert Edwards created a top 10
DETROIT - Grand Circus announced its third round of DEVELOP(her) in three years, supported by TEKsystems, and Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation (MCWT). DEVELOP(her) provides scholarships to women who are committed to learning how to code through one of Grand Circus’ bootcamps. The first of these scholarships will be available for the July
ANN ARBOR — Investments were up, but the dollar volume was down. That was the story of the Michigan Venture Capital Association’s annual report on venture investing in Michigan, released Wednesday. The group fuond 68 startups received $179 million in venture capital investment in 2017. That’s up in terms of investments from 2016, when 54
SEATTLE, WA – Investment into venture-backed companies is already on pace to experience another record-breaking year in 2018. Investors deployed the highest amount of capital in 1Q 2018 than any single quarter since 2006 ($28.2 billion), with unicorns attracting over 18 percent of total VC capital. Coming off multiple years of record fundraising, more than
