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This week, the Greater Detroit area hosted the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, an international business competition designed to highlight Michigan as a robust and vibrant venue for innovation. The competition showcased the best and brightest businesses to...
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...
Earlier this month, Innovate Blue published the first two entries in a blog series by rising Ross junior Praveen Loganathan on his entrepreneurial journey at U-M. In his first entry, Praveen reflects on why he became the CEO and co-founder of InFusion Technologies, a...
Startup Casual recently featured Ross alumni Jason Okrasinski, Tim Jones and Evan Dancer in an article on advice for students trying to turn their ideas into a full company. The co-founders of Cribspot, a rental marketplace for college housing, Jason, Tim and Evan...
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...
Yesterday, the Zell Lurie Institute held its annual awards luncheon to honor outstanding entrepreneurial students. Here’s a list of this year’s winners: Weiser Family BBA Entrepreneurs of the Year ($1,500 award each) Katie Reiner (BBA 2016) Katie is the co-founder of...
In honor of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, the University of Michigan’s Innovate Blue blog recently recognized 15 female U-M student innovators to keep an eye on this year. Among those named were several female entrepreneurs associated with the...
Samantha Kelman, BBA ’10, has always dreamed of owning her own business. “Entrepreneurship is at my core,” she said. She started her first business when she was in high school, selling apparel to raise money for breast cancer awareness—a cause she still supports...
For the roughly one million people in the United States who are deaf or hard of hearing, and use American Sign Language, navigating a hearing world can be frustrating. Few hearing Americans are fluent in American Sign Language (ASL), so written English becomes the...