Ann Arbor under consideration for K-Dow headquarters
Big investment is investigating Ann Arbor as mega-corporation K-Dow considers Tree Town for its new headquarters.
Big investment is investigating Ann Arbor as mega-corporation K-Dow considers Tree Town for its new headquarters.
Entrepreneurs usually can't wait to meet an angel investor, and they'll get a chance to meet three on Sept. 10 when Ann Arbor SPARK and BioArbor host a forum on angel investors in downtown Ann Arbor.
Ann Arbor-based HandyLab has 19.2 million reasons to be happy. That's how much venture capital money it has raised to commercialize its research tools and hire eight new staff members.
American Soy Products is getting ready to package up and send some jobs to Saline as the company expands its facilities there.
Smell that? Well, you could smell those delicious smells if you lived in Ypsilanti where the Old World Bakery just set up shop.
New economy start-ups need banks that offer new economy know-how. Enter Bank of Ann Arbor's Technology Industry Group, the only program of its kind in Michigan. Modeled after the ground-breaking Silicon Valley Bank, it supports local emerging technologies and entrepreneurs in ways corporate banking giants can't.
It's a bird, it's a plant, it's a university! The University of Michigan that is, which is swooping in just in the nick of time to save Michigan's economy.
Green is the new black in environmentalism and Toyota is drapping itself in it as it readies to open its new technical center in the Milan area.
The Valley of Death for potential biomedical breakthroughs isn't looking so scary these days thanks to the U-M Life Sciences Institute new Innovation Partnership. The new fund will help provide valuable start-up money to new firms so they can get their ideas from the research lab to the market place.
Students at the University of Michigan aren't investing play money into make-believe corporations. The business schools venture capital fund has invested $71,000 into Flint-based BeholzTech to help the start-up get its feet under it and recruit some talent.
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