Underscoring the event's integral role in the region's burgeoning start up and venture capital community, organizers of the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium today announced continued momentum for the companies selected to present at each year's event. In the past...
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Over $113,000 is funneled into Student Startups at the 31st Annual Business Plan Competition and Dare to Dream Grant Program
by | Feb 24, 2014
Today we announced the winners of the 31st annual Michigan Business Challenge and recipients of the Applebaum Dare to Dream Grants and Mayleben Family Venture Shaping Grants. The business plan competition and grant programs, recognize promising student-led startups,...
MGCS Growth Capital News: MEDC and State Strengthen Their Commitment to Energize Venture Investing
by | Feb 20, 2014
The Michigan Economic Development Corp., or MEDC, and the state of Michigan have made a long-term commitment to supporting and stimulating the risk-capital investment industry, which accelerates the emergence and growth of high-potential Michigan companies. "We've...
Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund Makes Two Investments
by | Feb 14, 2014
The student managed Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund has made two investments. The fund provided pre-seed investments to healthcare startup AlertWatch and ad tech start up AdAdapted. The collective investments total $90,000 and closed in November 2013 and January...
Keynote at MGCS ’12 receives coverage in Xconomy
by | Feb 12, 2014
Jason Mendelson was the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium's keynote speaker in 2012 and he was well deserving of it. As a U-M alum and founder of the Foundry Group, a venture capital fund, and a core launching partner of the accelerator TechStars, he delivered an...
Executive Director Stewart Thornhill Contributed to Bloomberg Businessweek
by | Feb 5, 2014
Stewart Thornhill contributed an article to Bloomberg Businessweek's Business Schools section today in an article titled "The Wrong Way to Judge an Entrepreneurship Course." Thornhill discusses the difficulties of measuring entrepreneurial programs at business schools...
Semi-Finalists named in Annual Michigan Business Challenge
by | Jan 29, 2014
Today the eight teams that will advance to the semi-finals of the Michigan Business Challenge were announced. Part of the Institute’s action-based approach to entrepreneurial education, the Michigan Business Challenge is an annual business plan competition that...
Michigan Growth Capital Symposium Opens Application Process for Presenting Companies and Call for Sponsors
by | Jan 24, 2014
Organizers of the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium announced the call for companies interested in applying to present at the 33rd annual Midwest equity event, taking place June 17-18, 2014at the Marriott Resort in Ypsilanti, Mich. The two-day event will showcase...
The University of Michigan and Ross School of Business Leading the Charge in the Growing Entrepreneurial and Venture Capital Scene in Michigan
by | Dec 30, 2013
The state of Michigan may conjure up a number of images for people. Some may think of the Great Lakes. Others, the Rust Belt. Many may think of Detroit and its current struggles. But a deeper dive shows a new image for Michigan may be on the horizon, something that...
Student Start-up A2B Bikeshare is Growing and Needs Your Vote!
by | Dec 16, 2013
Keith Porter and Ansgar Strother, students at the University of Michigan's College of Engineering, found a way to take a simple idea (a bike share program) add technology (touch screens) and create a new start-up, A2B Bikeshare. The 16-month-old start-up enables...