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The Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies today announced that its Social Venture Fund, the nation’s first student-led impact investing fund, has participated in a seed stage round of financing in Mytonomy, Inc., a video storytelling platform for college...
Credit Suisse Principal Sean O’Donnell spoke with us this month about the Customized Fund Investment Group’s (CFIG) role in Michigan’s venture capital industry, how Michigan’s venture capital industry has grown and the CFIG’s plans for the future. How does the CFIG...
Business Reporter Ben Freed at AnnArbor.com recently spoke with Tom Porter, mentor and managing director of the Frankel Commercialization Fund, and Dan Itsara, a student member of the Fund, about the Fund's most recent investment in Fusion Coolant Systems, a developer...
Sarah Shmidt at Xconomy recently connected with Tom Porter, managing director at the Zell Lurie Institute, to discuss the Frankel Commercialization Fund's most recent investment in Fusion Coolant Systems, a developer of an advanced coolant and lubrication system...
The Frankel Commercialization Fund, in collaboration with the Zell Lurie Institute, today announced that it has invested $80,000 in Fusion Coolant Systems, a developer of an advanced coolant and lubrication system making manufacturing more efficient. The Frankel...
The Frankel Commercialization Fund, in collaboration with the Zell Lurie Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies, today announced that Arbor Photonics, a portfolio company of the fund, has been acquired by nLIGHT Corp, a leading producer of high-performance lasers. The...
The student-led Wolverine Venture Fund (WVF) turned in another strong year, assessing new investment proposals and participating in a $25 million Series D round investment in Sonitus Medical, a medical-device company focused on advanced hearing solutions. Based in San...
Last spring, Joseph (“JD”) Brannock, MBA ’13, tested the waters of global entrepreneurship as part of a four-member Entrepreneurial Multidisciplinary Action Project (E-MAP) team assigned to work with JP AquaKnit Ltd., an Israel-based clean-tech company that has...
The completion of two first-of-their-kind investments by the Social Venture Fund in 2012 represents a major milestone for the Ross School of Business and the Zell Lurie Institute. Multidisciplinary teams of Michigan students spent more than a year sourcing deals,...
The Detroit Free Press recently ran an article profiling startup Are You a Human, a business built by three U-M MBA grads. Are You A Human, which is based in Michigan, has received funding from the Zell Lurie Institute's Frankel Commercialization Fund and is now well...