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By Melvin Henley, Program Manager, Detroit Creative Corridor Early and second stage tech-based startups who need creative assistance listen up!  Detroit Creative Corridor, Creative Co., and Detroit Innovate are launching a new fund that will help you get the assistance you need.  The Creative Co. Services Fund will award tech-based startups in Michigan with up […]

Sabrina Hadinoto relishes the “incredible variety and continual learning” a career in venture capital offers.  So when the MVCA Venture Fellows Program made it possible for her to join Ann Arbor-based Venture Investors full time, she didn’t hesitate.  Sabrina tells us why she’s choosing Michigan to build her career and the legacy she hopes to leave […]

Eric Meister admits his resume is pretty unique—he’s spent years at the intersection of technology and the food supply chain, first as the director of supply chain for Barilla Pasta and later as the COO of Lean Logistics, the world’s largest SaaS supply chain logistics provider to many large, industrial food supply customers. So when […]

Lucian Taylor, new VP of Product at Grand Rapids’ Varsity News Network (VNN), admits his long-time passion for fiction writing seems unlikely for a high-tech software guy. But he insists it’s a skill that actually lends itself well to his day job. Indeed, telling the story of VNN’s chief offering—a nation-leading digital communication platform for high […]

Ann Arbor, Michigan – October 09, 2015 From blood to food to medicine, cells are all around us. However, the current methods of separating those cells from their surroundings for research, diagnostics, and cell therapy–also known as cell sorting–can be time-consuming, costly, and damaging to the cells. To address this, Ann Arbor-based startup Akadeum Life Sciences […]

Supply chain technology company continues to push innovation in the marketplace ANN ARBOR, Mich. (September29, 2015). LLamasoft, a supply chain software innovator, announced that it has closed a $50 million Series B financing round with affiliates of Goldman, Sachs & Co.  The minority investment will be used to fund numerous technology development and growth initiatives.  […]

Three Leaf Ventures’ Sean Kearney readily traded one venture capital hotbed for another, in a move from Denver, Colorado to Ann Arbor this year.  What the three-time Boston marathoner isn’t sure about is if the lower elevation of Southeast Michigan makes up for the higher humidity he’s now running through 100 miles a week.  He says: ““Your […]

By Maureen Miller Brosnan, Executive Director, MVCA Ni hao! Last month, the Michigan Venture Capital Association was invited to join an international delegation of experts from the global entrepreneurial and investment economy for the International Forum on Innovation and Investment, which took place at three different events in three cities –Qingdao, Beijing and Dezhou.  Leaders […]

Recently, MVCA was successful in working with the Senate Committee on Economic Development in passing an amendment to HB4195 and HB4196 that allows for income earned by the State as a result of venture capital investment to go back to fund future state investment in venture capital vs. the general fund.  The Michigan venture capital […]