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Medgadget July, 2016 MedTech Innovator, the medtech industry’s annual start-up competition and virtual accelerator, has just announced their 20 semi-finalists. 430 companies from around the globe applied for these coveted spots, and were reviewed by 90 reviewers...

Michipreneur June, 2016 The Desai Accelerator is a joint effort between the Ross college and the college of engineering at the University of Michigan. Read More

We See Genius June, 2016 Between research, teaching and talent development, elite MBA programs might be one of the most important cogs in the growth of impact investing. Some schools are already leading the budding field and sending elite talent into the most...

Crain's Detroit Business April, 2016 Two startup companies owned by University of Michigan students won a combined $430,000 in early stage investments over the weekend, at the national Rice Business Plan Competition in Houston. Read More

PE Hub Network September, 2015 University of Michigan‘s Zell Lurie commercialization fund has made an undisclosed investment in PHASIQ. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, PHASIQ is a healthcare company that provides multiple protein testing solutions. Read More

Poets & Quants May, 2016 Megan Driscoll, founder and president of PharmaLogics, a top bio-pharmaceutical recruiting company, had never had any formal business school training. Wanting to learn more from leaders like herself, she found what she was looking for in the...

The Michigan Daily February, 2016 Over 40 people gathered in the Alumni Center Thursday for the TechArb showcase, a culmination of a University of Michigan startup training program.  Read More

Crain’s Detroit Business June, 2015 What's metro Detroit native Brad Keywell going to do with the millions he has made from launching Groupon and other tech companies? Give away most of it. Read More

Xconomy June, 2015 Last summer, the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and College of Engineering announced the creation of a new accelerator that would be open to any startup—no university affiliation required. Earlier this month, the Desai Family...

The Wall Street Journal April, 2015 On a late Friday afternoon earlier this month, a dozen students crowded around a table in an office overlooking New York City’s Madison Square Park. Their mission: deciding whether to invest a chunk of Read More

The Michigan Daily February, 2015 In recent years, colleges across the nation, including the University, have started offering degrees, certificates and classes geared toward entrepreneurship and innovation. Read More

The Wall Street Journal November, 2014 How do you use college to learn how to be an entrepreneur? For the student looking to launch a company after graduation, the answers to the typical questions—where do you go to school, what do you study, what clubs do you join...