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Gradient Valley Launches AI Tool for Education

Gradient Valley Launches First of Its Kind AI Mobile App To Teach Data Science Ann Arbor-based software company Gradient Valley has just…

Room 35 Will Mentor Contractors Incubator Style

Room35 Introduces Tech Incubator Model to Construction Room35 is a new business incubator in Kalamazoo, Michigan, that co-founders Joshua…

LAND Energy Launches an EV for Energy Independence

Today, we are excited to introduce LAND Energy, an electrification and mobility startup based in Cleveland that is focused on combining…

Mach9 Uses AI as a Surveying Tool To Strengthen the Grid

We've reported before about how AI is being used to fill in gaps in Flint, Michigan, pipe records to predict where pipes need to be replaced…

ChatGPT-4 Is Already Here: How Will You Use It?

ChatGPT-4 exam results compared to previous model. ChatGPT-4 is here, on the heels of ChatGPT-3. What is new with this new edition of…

Tech Startups Scramble After Silicon Valley Bank Collapse, Bank-to-Bank Bailout

The Silicon Valley Bank website has been taken over by "Silicon Valley Bridge Bank" to create a vehicle to serve existing SVB depositors via…

Bitwise raises $80 million to teach underserved to code

Bitwise Industries is a Fresno-based tech startup on a mission: teach underserved populations how to code, pay them to get real-world…

Immuta Inc. Gains Silicon Valley Investor, Valued at $1 billion

Immuta Inc., a newly minted unicorn tech startup in the Drive Capital LLC and Ohio Innovation Fund portfolios, has added a new publicly…

Replaced By A Room Full of CodeMonkeys: AI Use Cases for Software Engineers

Engineers may be grappling with the idea that AI can code, threatening low-level software developer jobs in the coming years, but AI is also…

App Helps You Track Your Impact Fighting Climate Change

Do you feel a bit helpless watching the climate change, or are you tired of wondering if each new solution is mere greenwashing or too vague…

Error Costs Google $100b: How Do We Get The Most Out of AI?

Microsoft introduced a disturbing chatbot of their own recently, Bing, which occasionally argues with users and threatens them. Google…

New Medical Tech Incubator Opens in Grand Rapids

Think Southeast Michigan has things wrapped up with regards to medtech startups? Think again. Michigan State has just opened a new incubator…

FutureGood Uses Futurism To Mentor Entrepreneurs

Dena Rapley came out of a career in higher education to work in outreach with Future Good, a startup that mentors entrepreneurs and business…

Forj raises $15 million and announces merger

Startup Forj has just raised a $15 million-dollar Series A funding round and announced a merger with Web Courseworks that will come together…

Guest Post: How To Find a Disability-Accommodating Job in Government Tech

This is a guest post by Cronicle contributor Dean Burgess of Excitepreneur.net. If you would like to write a guest post for Cronicle Tech…

Startup Lower disrupts lending with mortgage as a service

Columbus tech startup Lower has just unveiled a new service that could disrupt the lending industry: mortgage as a service. And it's not…

Check Out These Tech Jobs from Ann Arbor-Detroit Startups

Are you looking for a tech startup job in the Midwest? The middle of the country tends to be more conservative in hiring, so the region didn…

Midwest Tech Jobs: Connect with Startup Job Events

Looking for Midwest tech jobs? Companies are still hiring in Michigan, where startups and larger tech companies have not had to lay off the…

Stefanini Creates Real-Time Video Language Translation Tool with Microsoft

Voicero allows Microsoft Teams meetings to translate audio on live calls into 20 different languages to help teams collaborate across…

How to connect with Chicago's startup ecosystem

Desiree Vargas Wrigley runs TechRise and P33 Chicago, a startup community and pitch competition that supports women and BIPOC startup…

funding

6 Ways to Secure Funding for Your Startup

Image courtesy Pexels. This article is a guest post by contributor Dean Burgess of Excitepreneur.net. The opinions herein are the sole…

QualSights raises just under $8 million for IoT AI consumer research platform

QualSight's combination of research on consumer habits and IoT sensors allow brands to capture insights on product design and usage…

How Is Your Company Weathering the Economic Shift? Send Us Your Tips.

Startups with a few years under their belt based in the Midwest might have an easier time than new startups (pictured above a May Mobility…

Chicago's Fly.io Closes $37 Million in Funding, Is Hiring

Ford Cuts Jobs To Fund EV Investment

announcements

nuclear fusion unlocks 50% more energy than input, creating potential for clean energy

The core of a JET tokamak that produces nuclear fusion reactions in the UK. Photo c. Christopher Roux, CEA-IRFM, EUROfusion. The US…

Chicago's TechRise supports entrepreneurs with generous pitch competition grants

Chicago is still growing as an emerging tech hub. Meet P33, an organization that is supporting entrepreneurs that are historically…

Tech Companies Hiring November 23 in Ann Arbor

Join the annual Tech Homecoming hiring event at Cahoots in Ann Arbor November 23rd 4-7 pm hosted by Ann Arbor SPARK to find your next tech…

Cronicle Hires Tim Busbey as Second VP of Content

Atomic Object Opens New Raleigh Office

news

Scientists at Google Create a Working Quantum Wormhole

Schematic representation of anti-de Sitter space (interior of cylinder) and its dual representation as quantum information on the boundary…

AI Tool from Stefanini, Lawrence Tech Helps Run Smart Factories

Sophie is an AI virtual assistant that integrates with business intranets to answer employee questions. AI tool Sophie, from Stefanini, is…

Report: University of Michigan Research Contributes $100M to State Economy

The University of Michigan's enormous research enterprise contributed $97 million to Michigan's economy over the past fiscal year, according…

Michigan Home to Most Improved Economy in the U.S.

The Midwest's High Growth Tech Startups To Watch 2022: Ann Arbor

uncategorized

Michigan Space Technologies Will Launch Low-Orbit Satellites

Joshua Mehay and his wife Meghan Mehay founded Michigan Space Technologies to create a service that can launch low-orbit satellites for…

Women in Tech Talks Strategies for Equity and Access

Women in Tech is a newer conference added to Ann Arbor's a2tech360 week, which includes over a dozen tech conferences, networking events…

environmental-tech

Canada will get a 1000 kph vacuum tube train

Photo rendering courtesy TransPod Canada could be getting a 1,000 kph vacuum tube train. The new proposal for a FluxJet was unveiled…

Who Are Chicago's 2021 Tech Unicorns? Meet Aeroseal.

Tech startups have been growing in Chicago since big tech started building second headquarters in the region, including Salesforce's sales…

SkySpecs Wind Turbine Inspection Drone Tech Now Operating In 19 Countries

A SkySpecs drone inspects wind turbines on a wind farm. "We recently closed on $17 million in funding, reinforcing our commitment to the…

From Water Pollution to Cannabis Testing: Traverse City's SampleServe Automates Environmental Survey Data

marketing

How To Create a Content Marketing Program That Supports Your Company Through a Recession

Startups hire Cronicle to create content marketing for them became Cronicle's tech blog quickly became one of the top resources for tech and…

Guest Post: Best Kept Secrets for a Successful Small Business Website

Anyone can walk into the Ferris Wheel in Flint, a business incubator Michigan. All you need is an idea on a napkin. Photo courtesy Ferris…

Ann Arbor's AdAdapted Is Behind Your Improving Online Shopping List

This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…

Ann Arbor Tech Company Nutshell Launches Unique CRM Product for Marketers

When To Start Content Marketing For Your Startup & How To Focus Your Strategy

software

Tenacity Launches New Tool To Manage Cloud Spend Waste

Tenacity, a leading provider of cloud cost optimization tools, has just announced the launch of a new cloud cost management platform that…

Want to learn Stable Diffusion AI? Take this course

Image courtesy Fast AI If you heard about the Stable Diffusion AI release and want to learn how to run it, this new course is for you. Fast…

Ann Arbor Startup Salud Brings Wedding Planners As a Subscription Online

This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…

New Michigan Startups Pitch Tech for Social Justice, Trade, and Legal Relief

Online Coaching Finds New Platform with Yottled

leadership

Guest Post: Best Cities for Digital Nomads

This is a guest post from Dean Burgess, who writes about business and entrepreneurship at Excitepreneur.net. The views mentioned here do not…

How inflation is impacting tech talent and businesses' plans for hiring

With consumer sentiment continuing a downward trend, falling 14.4% in June according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers…

Where To Find Mentorship For Your Michigan Startup

Winners of a TechTown Detroit pitch event. This is a guest post from Civionics CEO and former TechTown Detroit mentor Gerry Roston. If you…

What The Future Holds for Healthcare Startups

Why Women Leave STEM with Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Jennifer Doudna & Colleagues

sustainable-energy

The Grid Is Changing To Support Electrification: Here's How It's Going in Legacy State Michigan

Infrastructure in Michigan is famously old as it was all built during and just after the industrial revolution. That makes it a great state…

Report Shows Clean Energy Jobs Could Replace Lost Coal Jobs

Coal-fired power plants in the United States. Bubbles are scaled by plant capacity, which ranges from 5 to 3,500 MW. Image credit: From…

engineering

New Nanophotonic Material Can Turn Heat to Electricity

Microscopy images show no discernible degradation before and after heat treating the material. Image credit: Andrej Lenert A new heat…

CarBeast creates AI tool to predict car repair costs

CarBeast is a Michigan and California-based startup who created an AI tool with a different application: it helps you make informed…

Midwest startup uses AI and robotics to build modern homes

Terran walls have an adobe structure and are built by drone using AI. It's no secret lumber costs have skyrocketed, which opens the door to…

GM Secures Raw Materials & Partnerships To Produce Future EVs

University of Michigan Founds New Department of Robotics, a First Among Top Engineering Schools

security

Michigan Governor Calls for Protection of Health Data

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, photo courtesy State of Michigan Office of the Governor. Michigan Governor Whitmer has this week sent a…

Ann Arbor's Censys Raises $35 Million in Series B, Appoints CEO

Ann Arbor cybersecurity startup Censys has just raised $35 million in a Series B round led by Intel Capital. Brad Brooks was appointed CEO…

AI Security Trends To Look Out For in 2022

This article is a guest post from David Balaban, a computer security researcher who has written for a number of high-profile tech and…

7 Questions To Ask When Looking for a Cloud Services Provider

How Cloud Services Management Is Changing in 2021

mobility-tech

Report: Electric Car Sales Skyrocket

According to a new report out from IDTechEx, electric car sales have hit new records as governments double down on support for the…

North American EV Charging Company FLO Expands to Michigan

North American EV charging company FLO has just announced plans to open its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Michigan in 2022. This is…

Throdle Creates First Global Automotive Social Network

This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…

The Newest Midwest Mobility Startups To Watch: LiveRoad Analytics

The Newest Midwest Mobility Startups To Watch: Interpl.ai

advanced-manufacturing

IDTechEx Projects Varied Growth in the Industrial Service Robots Sector

Cambridge-based IDTechEx projects a continued growth in the industrial service robots sector in logistics and cleaning, including such…

How To Automate CNC Machines Without Breaking the Bank

This is a guest post from Jonathan Schlick, Manufacturing Manager of Techni Waterjet. The opinions and statements in this article are the…

Robots Fabricate a Pavilion To Prove Broader Use Case for Automated Construction

Want to see the best garden pavilion that robots can build? The public is invited October 24 to the opening and ribbon cutting ceremony in…

Eoxs Pivots to Analytics Software for Steel

Project Synergy Automates Data Tracking and Collab for Automotive Prototype Builds

medical-tech

Nano-Engineered Brain Cancer Treatment Might Kill Tumor Cells and Activate Immune System

An extended diagram shows the components that go into each liquid—the human serum albumin that helps cross the blood-brain barrier, the iRGD…

Akadeum Life Sciences Names First Recipient of Rising Innovators Research Award

Akadeum Life Sciences Rising Innovators Research Reward Akadeum Life Sciences has just begun a new award series, aimed at honoring those…

Ann Arbor Continues Trajectory to HealthTech Startup Hub with New Crop of 2022 Companies

Ann Arbor continues to pump out new tech startups by the month, and we've got a sneak peek for 2022 on one of the fastest growing in health…

Workit Health Brings Telemedicine To Addiction Treatment

A New Anti-Inflammatory Treatment Could Aid Sickest COVID Patients

life-sciences

Breaking U Michigan Research: Harnessing Entropy to Assemble Nanoparticles

Dodecahedron_binary.png Entropy is generally regarded as a force of chaos or disorder in physics. but it's entropy that researchers at the…

Celebrate Invention Marks a Year of Startup Milestones at the University of Michigan

Rebecca Cunningham and Kelly Sexton host a panel on research and startup culture at the University of Michigan, which launched a milestone…

recruiting

Blumira Hires Jim Simpson as CEO + Adds 4 Security Industry Veterans

Cybersecurity startup Blumira has just announced multiple new hires as the company expands rapidly through the end of 2021. New senior-level…

Top Michigan Tech Startups Hiring Right Now

Ryan Landau heads up the Purpose Jobs team. Ryan Landau is co-founder of Purpose Jobs, a recruiting firm that works with the hottest tech…

5 AI and CyberSecurity Companies Hiring in Ann Arbor-Detroit

If you're looking for a tech job in the Midwest, dozens of companies are still hiring in Ann Arbor-Detroit. Continuing our series from…

3 Detroit & Ann Arbor Tech Companies Hiring Right Now

12 Tech Companies & Job Boards For Work From Home Tech Jobs

tech-events

TechTalk 2021: Ann Arbor's Tech Week Premiere Event

Sandy Harvey of ouroffice works with startups to set the foundation for functional communication and psychological safety early on. This…

Michigan Tech Events August 2021

It's already mid-summer for the Michigan tech community, which has had a busy startup launch summer but a much sleepier tech event schedule…

January 2021 Michigan Tech Events

We have just a few unique tech events to highlight this month around Michigan. We hope you are having as peaceful a new year as possible and…

U.S., Midwest, & Global Tech Conferences December 2020

Detroit Startup Week Is Online Now

networking

Ann Arbor SPARK Creates New Business Education & Networking Series, ACE

For those business owners not in the tech startup space, Ann Arbor SPARK is launching a new, free educational series, Accelerating Company…

In-Person Michigan Tech Events June/July 2021

Cahoots is back to hosting some in-person events, including Code & Coffee meetup. Michigan tech organizations and enthusiast groups are…

Incluzion Creates Diverse Remote Talent Pool for Tech Jobs

"Getting jobs filled should transcend politics and get the best people for the position," says Jibril Sulaiman. Sulaiman is an entrepreneur…

Shine & Rise Creates a Network for Siloed Women in Tech

Great Lakes Tech Events March & April 2021

agile-methods

Who Are The 2021 Chicago Tech Unicorns? Meet Amount.

Chicago minted no fewer than 8 unicorn startups already in 2021, and the year is only half over, easily doubling last year's count. Why is…

E-Commerce Adoption Explodes, Eoxs Offers 1-Day Online Marketplace Solutions

Eoxs e-commerce allows users to plug their products, inventory, pricing, logo, and domain into an e-commerce solution for quick online sales…

The Defense Industry Adopts Lean Startup Strategies

This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…

How Agile Is Adapted for Instructional Design & Online Training

Ann Arbor-Based FordLabs Is Ford's Ongoing Push To Make Automotive Agile

fun

Spellbound Creates Augmented Reality Scavenger Game For Pediatric Patients

This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…

Build Yourself a Custom Work From Home Keyboard from Gamers' Choice Winner Cherry Americas

Working from home and want to upgrade to a custom keyboard or ergonomic keyboard? Cherry Americas located in the Midwest between Chicago and…

Visit With Santa Online Before Christmas

Santa has gone online this year, to meet with children across the world. We caught up with Saint Nick in his workshop this week as he was…

16 Contactless Delivery Services To Make Work From Home Easier

Wild Swan Theater Launches Coding To The Moon Production with Pre-Party Feb 5th

tech-news

Ann Arbor Startup PassiveBolt Launches AI-Enhanced Keyless Entry for Home

This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…

Silicon Valley VC Funding Expected To Drop Below 20% of Deals in 2021, + Other Tech News Highlights

Many notable startups were founded in the Midwest, including Ann Arbor's May Mobility and Rivian mobility tech startups. Many startups need…

Stock Exchange Meets Commercial Real Estate with ProjectFRED

Heather Martel is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of ProjectFRED, a new fintech, blockchain-powered commercial real estate startup…

Pendaran Offers Immersive Experience-Based Systems Thinking Training Program

multimedia-arts

BrandXR Launches Platform & Tools For Creating A 3D Augmented Reality Experience

BrandXR founder Mahmoud Mattan speaks at TEDx Detroit about the human attention span, and how we crave immersive information experiences via…

#1 Rated Ann Arbor Film Festival Now Features High-Tech and Multimedia Art of Ann Arbor

Leslie Raymond, Director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, speaks at the festival in 2017. "It's unusual, experimental, and avant-garde," says…

Fashion & Technology: Terms & Conditions' Peter Michaelides

Moderator Nate Forbes interviews Nike design VPs Paul Rivera and David Creech. The Ross School of Business, which hosted the Michigan…

devops

Great Lakes Tech Communities: Buffalo, NY

Quintessence Anx of Buffalo, New York, works for AppDynamics as a tech evangelist for the devops community. Every town around the Great…

Red Hat's Chris Short on Redirecting A War Vet's Energy To Lifelong Learning & Technical Leadership

It's a common story in startup culture: people comfortable with the risks of starting a new business often have a background in which they…

Overcoming Organizational Resistance with PagerDuty's George Miranda

George Miranda speaks at the recent DevOps Days Detroit 2019 at Detroit's College for Creative Studies in New Center. "I get to do non…

Full Videos of DevOps Days Detroit 2019 Now Available

DevOps Days Detroit Day 2: Handling Disasters and Rollouts

robotics

university-of-michigan

A Look Inside The University of Michigan Desai Venture Accelerator

Angela Kujava heads up the Desai Accelerator run out of the Zell Lurie Institute at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. The…

Perch: Indeed.com for Research Labs Launches with Major Universities

Perch engineer Benji Bear (left) and CEO Akira Nishii (right) are part of a diverse team of undergrad and grad students launching Perch in…

Innovate Blue: Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan

Jeni Olney of Innovate Blue at a meeting of Innovation in Action in Ann Arbor in the TechArb work space for student entrepreneurs. Jeni…

user-experience

On Maps & Empathy, with Jonathon Baugh of Pillar

Jonathon Baugh of Pillar studies disparate subjects to draw unique insights into user experience. Jonathon Baugh, Experience Architect…