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University of Michigan's Zell Founders Fund Invests in Sneakers By Jordana The Zell Lurie Founders Fund of the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business today announced...
Professor Erik Gordon is using his time off from teaching MBA students in Michigan to teach at the WeHave the Future! Summer Camp in Northeast Italy. The program, created by the former editor-in-chief of the Economist, Bill Emmott, hopes to address the economic...
Chief executives can take strategic steps to ensure venture-capital-backed boards have the right people with the right experience to help start-ups and growth-stage companies achieve key milestones and avoid serious pitfalls. Likewise, said a panel of CEOs from...
Venture-capital investment in the Midwest is picking up momentum, said four seasoned VCs during a panel discussion on Tuesday afternoon. “Investors on the coasts are thinking more about the Midwest, because they sense there is value here and they are interested in...
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...
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...
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...
Over the past year, Matt Turner, the president and CEO of Amherst Fund, has observed that venture-capital investors in Michigan are slowly moving away from the seed stage and shifting their investment sights further down the development life of entrepreneurial...
Kevin Conroy of Exact Science was chosen to Keynote the 33rd Michigan Growth Capital Symposium to share his experiences building successful healthcare diagnostics companies in this region and providing suggestions to help the innovation community of investors,...
The Social Venture Fund, the nation’s first student-led impact investing fund, has participated in a bridge financing round for Powerhouse Dynamics, a cloud-based provider of enterprise energy and asset management solutions. Powerhouse Dynamics secured Series A...