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Deals in the Garden took place on April 22 at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids. It was emceed by Jody Vanderwel of Grand Angels, the event gave the following companies the opportunity to pitch their businesses to investors.

Ask Josh Linkner what’s got him, and the team at Detroit Venture Partners, fired up, and you’ll get a simple response: Detroit. The VC firm’s “crazed mission” is to back companies that are committed to rebuilding the Detroit area by entrepreneurship.

MVCA member RPM Ventures recently hired Josh Lin as part of the Michigan Venture Fellows Program. Lin is serving as an associate with the firm.

In anticipation of the MVCA-MEDC Roadshow we need your input! To realize maximum returns, we’d like to construct an impressive deal-book of your best Michigan portfolio companies that will be in the market for additional funding within the next 6-12 months.

MEDC is preparing to release a RFP for a study covering the entire capital continuum in Michigan. The study will be designed to assess the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the capital markets in Michigan.

MEDC is preparing to release a RFP for a study covering the entire capital continuum in Michigan. The study will be designed to assess the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the capital markets in Michigan.

Venture Investors led $9.2 million in Series B funding in NetSocket.

Kevin Terrasi has joined Plymouth Management Company (PMC) as Partner. He has worked closely with PMC since the investment in Pump
Engineering Inc. (PEI) in 2008.

Allos Ventures is pleased to announce the final closing of Allos II, a $40 million venture capital fund targeting investments in early-stage technology companies in the Midwest. Allos II is led by Don Aquilano, John McIlwraith, and Dov Rosenberg and builds on the success of our first fund, which invested in AssureRx Health, BidPal Networks, Scale […]