entrepreneurship

Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund Makes Two Investments

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

Keynote at MGCS ’12 receives coverage in Xconomy

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...

Semi-Finalists named in Annual Michigan Business Challenge

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...

Student Start-up A2B Bikeshare is Growing and Needs Your Vote!

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...