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Out-of-state venture capitalists can reap substantial gains by co-investing alongside local VCs in Michigan-based companies, says David Brophy, professor of finance and director of the University of Michigan Center for Venture Capital and Private Equity Finance, or...
The Michigan Business Challenge and the Dare to Dream Awards were featured in Michigan Daily, by Reporter Hillary Crawford. Crawford spoke with Movellus Circuits, the Pryor-Hale Award and the Applebaum Dare to Dream Integration Grant winners, Daniel Andersen MBA ’14...
Last week, the Wolverine Venture Fund (WVF) organized its second annual trek to Chicago to meet with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. WVF has built up an extensive network of more than 170 alumni during its 16 year history and it hopes that this year's trek...
The Michigan Growth Capital Symposium is accepting applications from high-growth innovative companies seeking $500K-$20M of funding within six months of the June 17 & 18 event. Seed, early-stage, late-stage, and pre-IPO companies of market sectors including (but...
Reda Jaber, MBA ’14, is the co-author of Visionary Kids, a children’s book series about entrepreneurs and innovators. The series hopes to inspire children to think creatively and encourage aspirations to one day start their own companies. Jaber and Sara Abraham, a...
On Monday we announced our first milestone with our Michigan Founder Finder portal that was launched in August in partnership with CoFoundersLab. The free portal is available to students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members to aid in the introduction of...
After distributing the press release this morning, word spread about the investment that the Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund made in the tech startup AdAdapted and the health startup AlertWatch. View the stories by clicking the links below. CBS Detroit Dow Jones...
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...
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...
Michigan Ross' Christian Pearson (MBA '15) has been working on a video game, "Leroy Johnson in the Greatest Video Game Ever Made." The game is an action /role playing game that promotes STEM careers while providing a gameplay experience on par with typical commercial...