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AdAdapted Inc., a tech startup invested by the Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund, announced $725,000 in seed capital. The funding will be used to scale up sales and marketing efforts. AdAdapted Inc. is an Ann Arbor company that builds ads designed for mobile devices....
The University of Michigan’s Biointerfaces think tank put their heads together last Thursday to discuss entrepreneurial opportunities in the medicine and medicine technology fields. The Zell Lurie Institute’s faculty member and entrepreneur-in-residence Jim Price...
This year’s record number of initial public offerings and the lofty valuations assigned to a handful of high-profile technology start-ups in Silicon Valley have created a stir in the entrepreneurial and venture-capital communities. “When we look at the markets, the...
Over the past year, Matt Turner, the president and CEO of Amherst Fund, has observed that venture-capital investors in Michigan are slowly moving away from the seed stage and shifting their investment sights further down the development life of entrepreneurial...
Kevin Conroy of Exact Science was chosen to Keynote the 33rd Michigan Growth Capital Symposium to share his experiences building successful healthcare diagnostics companies in this region and providing suggestions to help the innovation community of investors,...
Michigan’s angel investors play an important role in the life cycle of start-up companies around the state, says David Brophy, professor of finance and director of the University of Michigan Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance, or CVP. “Angel...
An organizational name change and a new logo and website have strengthened the Michigan Small Business Development Center’s brand identity and ties to the network of 63 Small Business Development Centers nationwide that provide assistance to emerging and established...
Organizers of the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium (MGCS) unveiled initial program details for the 33nd annual event. The Symposium, which serves as a conduit for introducing early stage and emerging growth companies seeking funding, to U.S. investors prospecting...
As part of its internal growth strategy, Internet-services company CloudAccess.net is adding the world’s leading blogging and webhosting platform, WordPress, to its Content Management Systems, or CMS, product offerings. Currently, CloudAccess.net is the flagship...
The Wolverine Venture Fund, managed by students at the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, today announced that one of its early portfolio companies, Silverpop, is under...