Over the past 18 months, investors have witnessed a strong rebound nationally in the IPO market, particularly in the area of health care. MGCS panelists, who discussed the return of the health-care IPO on Tuesday afternoon, attributed this turnaround to several...
Michigan Growth Capital Symposium
Corporate VCs Have Deployed New Business Models to Reinvigorate Venture Investments in Life Sciences, Says MGCS Keynote Ed Torres
In opening remarks at this year’s Michigan Growth Capital Symposium, S. Edward Torres, co-founder and managing director of Lilly Ventures, said corporate venture-capital investors focused on the life sciences have spearheaded the evolution of new, more sophisticated...
Entrepreneurs and Investors Must Work to Build Better Companies and More Attractive Deals, Says UM’s Brophy
As entrepreneurs and venture-capital investors convene today for the 2014 Michigan Growth Capital Symposium, they face a common goal of building better companies and more attractive deals that can compete for institutional investment money flowing from local, national...
Exo Dynamics is Excited to Present at this Year’s MGCS
We at Exo Dynamics are currently taking a big step from laboratory prototype to commercial product, and the timing of MGCS fits perfectly with our plans to meet investors and aim for a launch in 2015. Our core technology, invented by co-founder Daniel Johnson, began...
Your gang. Your posse. Your peeps. 6 gang members every entrepreneur should know
No, I'm not talking Bloods or Crips, East Coast or West Coast. I'm talking about Your gang. Your posse. Your peeps. If you think you can survive the mean streets of entrepreneurship alone, good luck. Surround yourself with people who have your back and offer...
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,...
Mercury Fund Doubles Down on its Commitments and Investments in Michigan
Blair Garrou, the managing director of Mercury Fund, a Houston-based seed-stage venture-capital firm, is spending a lot of time in Michigan and the Midwest these days. The firm is raising capital for its third fund and has closed on more than $100 million in...
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...
Michigan Growth Capital Symposium Announces Presenting Companies for 33rd Annual Midwest Venture Capital Conference
Today, organizers of the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium(MGCS) announced the 32 companies that will be presenting at the 33rd annual Symposium. Medical device, life sciences, healthcare, technology and clean tech tracks will showcase the "Best of the Midwest's"...
Supported Intelligence Advances Development and Sales of its Decision-support Software
Since launching Supported Intelligence LLC in 2012, Executive Chairman Patrick Anderson has moved quickly to procure venture-capital financing to advance the development and sales of the company’s innovative decision-support software in the commercial market. “We...