Michigan Technology News and Entrepreneurs
ROYAL OAK - What’s happening with the Michigan Council of Women in Technology and whom has Diva Tech Talk interviewed lately. Kathleen Norton-Schock tells all in this interview on M2 Techcast with co-hosts Matt Roush and Mike Brennan. Kathleen Norton-Schock To listen, click on https://soundcloud.com/mike-brennan-841872555/e159-kathleen-norton-schock
ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan will make a $2.75 million initial investment into four U-M startups with potential funding of up to $20 million through subsequent financing rounds. The U-M Board of Regents approved the investments Thursday through the Michigan Investment in New Technology Startups initiative. The MINTS fund, which is overseen by the U-M
ANN ARBOR - Attendees and startups will get to network and mingle with a group of 20+ investors prior to the startup pitches. If you are a startup and interested in presenting at this event, please submit an application by the deadline provide in the event link. “Pitch Club is a great program. On a consistent
DETROIT - Great Lakes Angels Fund, managed by City Side Ventures, is promoting a seminar March 13 on Angel Investing: “Introduction to Angel Investing – is it for me?” The format will be an overview of who are angels, what angel investing is all about, how they fit in the financing of startups and include
ROYAL OAK - Tom Tisko, BullsEye Telecom's New CEO, joins Matt and Mike on M2 Techcast to talk about how he plans to transform the nearly 20 year old Southfield, MI., based company and upgrade the technology skills of its more than 200 employees. Tom Tisko To listen, click on https://soundcloud.com/mike-brennan-841872555/e158-tom-tisko-bullseye-telecoms-new-ceo
DETROIT - Paul Riser Jr. has been named the inaugural director of Detroit Urban Solutions, a technology innovation consortium seeking to advance the growth of Detroit’s technology ecosystem and develop cutting edge solutions to challenges facing Detroit and similar urban areas. Since 2014, Riser has served as Managing Director of Technology-Based Entrepreneurship at TechTown Detroit,
ROYAL OAK - J.D. Collins, the new State Director for the Michigan Small Business Development Center, introduces himself and explains what the MISBDC does to help entrepreneurs make their dreams come true. J.D. Collins To listen, click on https://soundcloud.com/mike-brennan-841872555/e157-jd-collins-state-director-misbdc
ROYAL OAK - Long time media personality Dan Keelan announces on M2 TechCast that he's a partner in a new publication that will focus on the business of Legalized Marijuana in Michigan. M2 TechCast co-host Mike Brennan is his business partner. The publication will include not only guest columns from Marijuana business experts, but interviews
GRAND RAPIDS – Inductive Intelligence, nominated by the Michigan Small Business Development Center, has been selected to represent the work of America’s Small Business Development Centers at the Fourth Annual Client Showcase Reception on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on February 12. Inductive Intelligence is one of ten businesses selected from across the ASBDC’s national
ANN ARBOR - The Michigan Angel Fund has invested in four women-founded technology companies - what Managing Partner Skip Simms described as “purely coincidental.” But, Simms senior vice president of Ann Arbor SPARK, added the investments can be viewed as a marker of a growing trend of women-led companies. He said outcomes of that shift
