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SurClean Refreshes its Products, Markets and Investor Pitches
Since making its first presentation at last year’s Michigan Growth Capital Symposium, SurClean Inc. has hit the refresh button on its product offerings, target markets and investor pitches. “We feel our story has changed dramatically,” explains CEO Susan Sprentall,...
Founder Susan Tahir, MBA ’04, Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Story38 Alliance
Immersion in the strong entrepreneurial culture at the Ross School and Zell Lurie Institute gave Susan Tahir, MBA ’04, the lessons-learned, experience and confidence to launch Story38 Alliance, an endurance sports gear company based in Mountain View, Calif., two years...
Professors Len Middleton and Peter Adriaens Offer Reading Suggestions to Entrepreneurs
Adjunct Professor Len Middleton, corporate strategy, international business and entrepreneurship and Professor Peter Adriaens, civil and environmental engineering, entrepreneurship and strategy, shared their 2014 reading lists with Entrepreneur Magazine. Below are the...
Q&A with Executive Director Stewart Thornhill in Crain’s Detroit
The academic year has come to a close and in this Q&A with Executive Director Stewart Thornhill that was published in Crain's Detroit this morning, Thornhill discusses the new Desai accelerator program and his plans to hold more active entrepreneurs at U-M for...
Amherst Fund’s Turner Sees Expanded Role for Angel Investors in Michigan
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...
MGCS Unveils Details of the New Track Session to Spotlight Emerging Companies and Innovations from Midwest Universities
The Michigan Growth Capital Symposium (MGCS) announced a new track session that will spotlight the startup landscape at Midwest research universities and profile several emerging companies. Dubbed the University Research “Pitch” Track, the session will be facilitated...
MGCS Speaker and University Pitch Track Updates
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,...
MitoStem Sets a Course to Revolutionize Stem-cell Research and Regenerative Medicine
Until a few years ago, MitoStem Inc.’s novel technology for reprogramming human cells was the stuff of science fiction movies. Today, that patent-pending process is undergoing development and commercialization that will accelerate stem-cell research in laboratories...
UM’s Brophy Says Angel Investment Creates the Bedrock for Venture-capital Financing
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...