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Earlier this morning, Companion, a personal safety app, was featured on the Today Show. Companion is a peer-to-peer safety network that allows people to stay safe by keeping in touch with others while walking from one place to another. The app, available now for free...
The Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund today announced that it has invested in Reveal Design Automation, an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) start-up developing software tools for formal verification of complex semiconductor chip designs. The Zell Lurie...
A dual MD/MBA candidate, Alexandra Pulst-Korenberg’s interest in entrepreneurship solidified when she helped a small group of her fellow med students found and run a free medical clinic for the community of Pinckney in Livingston County, a clinic that saw 250 patient...
The Zell Lurie Institute announced today the winners of the 32nd annual Michigan Business Challenge, as well as recipients of the Applebaum Dare to Dream and Mayleben Family Venture Shaping Grants. The business plan competition and grant programs, which recognize...
While working as a data analyst for the University of Michigan’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, Alex VanDerKolk, BBA ’13, found himself elbow-deep in data that doctors were trying to use to plan the most effective and cost-efficient treatments for breast cancer...
The Institute today announced that eight teams have been named semi-finalists of the annual University-wide Michigan Business Challenge and four have advanced to the competition's Social Impact Track finals. More than 80 teams of students from across the University...
We hosted our second Twitter chat earlier this month and wanted to share the content for anyone who wasn’t able to follow along live. This chat focused on student business competitions at the Institute, specifically the Michigan Business Challenge (MBC). If you aren’t...
Our first #ZellChat was such a success that we want to keep the conversation going! Join us at 10 a.m. ET on Thursday, December 4 for another Twitter chat where Sarika Gupta, managing director of the Zell Lurie Institute, will take over the @ZellLurie Twitter to...
The Institute has announced the kick off of its annual business plan competition, the Michigan Business Challenge. Now in its 32nd year, the Challenge continues to evolve and in response to heightened interest in start-ups that at their core have a social mission,...
Fresh off its Michigan Business Challenge win earlier this year, Movellus Circuits, represented by Daniel Andersen (MBA ’14) and Muhammad Faisal (EECS PhD ’14) took home top billing at yesterday’s Great Lakes Entrepreneur’s Quest business competition, which was held...