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The Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund was recently featured in Michigan Daily as a source of funding for the Ann Arbor start-up community. Below is an excerpt from the piece. “Though startups in Ann Arbor and within the University community are notably diverse, they...
First-year MBA candidate Erica Sivertson, MBA ’15, is building the foundation for her targeted career in consulting and entrepreneurial business at the Zell Lurie Institute. The Institute’s $5.5 million Wolverine Venture Fund has served as a “school within a school,”...
The Zell Lurie Institute has helped Nick Bell, MBA ’14, apply his top-tier business-school education to practical hands-on experience in venture capital, which will accelerate his career in the investment-banking industry after graduation. The Institute offers a deep...
Shane Kelly, MBA ’13, has used his entrepreneurial-studies education at the Zell Lurie Institute and his venture-capital investment experience at the Wolverine Venture Fund as strategic stepping stones to his current position as executive director of the Wolverine...
Action-based learning experiences at the Zell Lurie Institute are propelling Ashish Kumar, an evening MBA student, toward a future career in venture capital and entrepreneurial business with a focus on the health-care industry. Recently, he was selected as a Kauffman...
Coming from an engineering background in corporate America, Michael Sherman, an evening MBA student, is now delving into the smaller scale but often more challenging world of start-up ventures at the Zell Lurie Institute. As a member of the Wolverine Venture Fund’s...
After distributing the press release this morning, word spread about the investment that the Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund made in the tech startup AdAdapted and the health startup AlertWatch. View the stories by clicking the links below. CBS Detroit Dow Jones...
This morning, the University of Michigan’s Wolverine Venture Fund announced that it has invested in ArborMetrix, a leading provider of real-time healthcare analytics. The $7 million Series B round of venture capital financing was led by RPM Ventures alongside existing...
Vestaron Corporation is developing the next generation of environmentally safe yet powerful insecticides using peptides isolated from spiders. It recently submitted a regulatory package to the EPA for the product and hopes to begin selling the insecticide as early as...
Sarah Schmid at Xconomy recently connected with Vinay Bhargava, CEO and co-founder of ed tech startup Mytonomy, to discuss his experience bringing the idea for his company to fruition. Vinay outlines the challenges he has faced and the accomplishments he has achieved,...