Michigan Technology News and Entrepreneurs
DETROIT - Startup Weekend, the popular weekend long event for starting a company, is back to Detroit but this time for a much younger crowd. Youth can come and join in on the fun for a very special Digital Innovation Competition for Kids. Startup Weekend Detroit – Youth is coming to Ford Field November 6-8, 2015
DETROIT - New startup Akadeum Life Sciences closed a round of funding this month that brings them to a total of $1 Million in funding. The life sciences startup in Ann Arbor has found a unique way to improve diagnostics. “We improve life science research and diagnostics by capturing cells with microbubbles,” said Brandon McNaughton, Co-founder and
ANN ARBOR – University of Michigan spin-out, Sakti3, has been acquired by vacuum cleaner manufacturer Dyson, which plans to incorporate its solid-state Lithium-ion technology to improved battery life on its cordless vacuums – plus deliver new products and build a battery production plant. The deal was reported to be worth $90 million. Dyson founder James
ANN ARBOR - Blaze Medical Devices has been awarded a $150,000 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Food and Drug Administration, in collaboration with University of Michigan Health System Center for Circulatory Support. The focus of this grant is to study damage to patients’ red blood cells caused by left ventricular assist
GRAND RAPIDS - Open Systems Technologies announced it has been chosen by CRN Magazine as a 2015 Triple Crown Winner. The Triple Crown Winner list features the most elite solution provider companies in North America as featured on CRN’s Solution Provider 500, Tech Elite 250, and Fast Growth 150 lists in 2015. OST was recognized on each
DETROIT – Seventy five percent of Southeast Michigan businesses surveyed have implemented so-called Eureka! Technologies - from new computer installations, to creating new patentable products - within the past year. With each new technological change or innovation, the workforce has been forced to adapt and respond to stay competitive in the new economy, contends a
WASHINGTON, DC – Venture capitalists invested $16.3 billion in 1,070 deals in the third quarter of 2015, according to the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. The $47.2 billion invested in the first three quarters of 2015 is higher than each
DETROIT - Jason Raznick founder of Benzinga says their success was somewhat accidental at first. He started Benzinga, the financial media company, back in 2010. Now five years later the company has seen exponential growth and made a move to join the technology scene in Downtown Detroit. To read the rest of this story, click on http://www.michipreneur.com/benzingas-detroit-move-fuels-their-big-vision/
DETROIT - The Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation raised $390,000 in donations earlier this month during its 10th annual Signature Gala that drew 600 IT Professionals from Michigan’s technology sector and beyond. The event, hosted by General Motors at the Renaissance Center Marriott, opened with a silent auction, fundraising Wall of Wine, and
DETROIT - Which IoT platforms are competing with Apple and Google? Which are the most popular cloud APIs? Does mobile, IoT or cloud development pay better? These are just some of the questions that our friends at VisionMobile tackle in their latest Developer Economics research. Developers can take their 10-minute National Trends survey and help
