150 Articles in 2019
Cronicle's Top 3 Midwest Tech News Stories of 2019, According To You
It's New Years Eve, so we're looking back at the most popular posts on Cronicle Press Tech News out of Ann Arbor-Detroit about the growing…
Ann Arbor Detroit Tech Events January 2020
Ann Arbor Detroit Tech Events January 2020 It's a brand-new year, so we're highlighting some new groups you might not have found yet going…
How The MEDC Supports Michigan Startups
Denise Graves is Director of University Relations for the MEDC. How The Michigan Economic Development Corporation Helps Companies Get…
Connect With Ann Arbor Business In The New Year Through Engage's New HQ
Engage HQ pictured right in Kerrytown backing up to the Kerrytown shops. One of our first articles on Cronicle connected Ann Arbor tech with…
Video Games of the Umich/EMU Game Expo 2019
Professor Austin Yarger, left, poses with friends at the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan student video game expo at the Betty…
Ann Arbor & Detroit Rated Top U.S. Tech & Startup Hubs To Watch
Intermitten Conference is kicked off by founder Heidi Craun in Ann Arbor, where among many other great speakers she interviewed Duo founder…
Check Out The EMU & U-M Student Video Game Showcase Wednesday
Hands down, our most popular posts in Cronicle's first 6 months have been the feature on indie game design studios in Michigan from…
Finding Joy In Music & Tech with Ki5 Looping Artist and Menlo Engineer Kyler Wilkins
The cover of Ki5's latest album, Looking For The Sun. "I began working at Menlo Innovations in February 2018 as a Software Developer, though…
New "Bloom In Tech" Meetup Helps People Succeed In The #3 Tech Hub Ann Arbor
Dana Foley, Jacquelyn Olson, and Mohammed Abouzahr left to right, standing in front of a mural in downtown Ann Arbor by Jonathan Wright of…
Sam Pierce Lolla's Shuffleboard Hacks Product Development Collaboration From Ann Arbor To Silicon Valley
Sam Lolla is one of the creators of MadeinA2.com and the founder and director of Directed Works, a company focused on product development…
MVCA's Executive Director Ara Topouzian Balances Economic Development with Award-Winning "Side Hobby" in Armenian Music
Ara Tapouzian of the MVCA at right plays with his award-winning Armenian band at TechCity Jam in Ann Arbor. We met him at the TechCity Jam…
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…
Ann Arbor-Detroit & Michigan Tech Events for December 2019
A courtesy photo from last year's holiday party at Arbormoon Software, which is open to all. Can't believe it's already the end of 2019, but…
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…
re:purpose Connects The High-Growth Tech Ecosystem in Detroit
re:purpose, Detroit's Tech Startup Recruiting Firm Did you ever wonder how candidates land jobs at hot tech companies like Duo out of Ann…
#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…
Full Videos of DevOps Days Detroit 2019 Now Available
As promised, the full video coverage of DevOps Days Detroit 2019 is now available online. You can find the playlist here, to check out…
Tech Leaders from Barracuda Networks, SkySpecs & More Talk Startup Leadership @ Rising Leaders
Rising Leaders founder Dave Haviland and Amy Cottrell also of Phimation Strategy Group stand in front of a list of Rising Leaders…
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…
Lansing LEAP's New PROTO Accelerator Supports The Growth of InsurTech Startups in Mid-Michigan
There are now more than 20 SmartZones across the state of Michigan, which means incubators in dozens of locations to support local startups…
Tinkertech Is A 3D Printing Laser Cutter Sewing Machine Electronics Controllers Santa's Workshop
216 W. Michigan Ave. Michael Ploof of Tinkertech in downtown Ypsi, right across from SPARK East headquarters, has a unique space. Sewing…
6 Detroit Tech Startups & Orgs Rocking Detroit's Tech Revolution
Detroit Tech Startups As of 2019, Detroit now has 4 unicorns--Duo, Stockx, Rivian, and OneStream--tech companies valued at more than…
Join Phimation Strategy and SPARK for Rising Leaders
Recently, Phimation Strategy executive coach Dave Haviland and team piloted a podcast with Ann Arbor SPARK called SPARK.grow and a new pilot…
Ann Arbor-Detroit Tech Events, November 2019
We knew this would happen, it just came sooner than expected. We couldn't possibly cronicle all the amazing tech-related events around Ann…
Human Element, of Top 20 Fastest Growing Companies in Michigan, Creates The Kind of Culture They Want To Stay In
Human Element's offices are located at the west end of the Broadway bridge in north Kerrytown, which makes the parking tricky but 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…
DevOps Days Detroit Day 2: Handling Disasters and Rollouts
George Miranda talks about handling crisis from a devops perspective. It's day 2 of DevOps Days Detroit at CCS overlooking the downtown…
DevOps Days Detroit Launches with Talks on DevOps In Action
Erin Maturen shows videos of her students near Flint, Michigan, learning to code Microbot robots and seeing how coding is a process of trial…
Be Interviewed on Cronicle
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Detroit Tech Companies
Ann Arbor-Detroit are distinct but integrated metro areas when it comes to tech. From world-class mobility tech engineering talent and…
Great Lakes Tech Companies: N/W MI, Chicago, Toledo
Work In Progress.... Cronicle is expanding coverage of Michigan and the Great Lakes tech industries across the Great Lakes region in 202…
Michigan's Cybercrime Support Network Talks Security on the Flip Side of Fraud
Kristin Judge, former Washtenaw County Commissioner, is now CEO of the nonprofit CyberCrime Support Network. Courtesy photo. Kristin Judge…
Great Lakes Stories and Culture
This page is a work in progress. Here we will be listing Cronicle's long-form publications such as books and story collections from the…
ACRE AgTech Accelerator Connects Agriculture & Tech In West Michigan
Age-old story at this point: "A lot of people don't realize how important supporting entrepreneurship is for the economy," Doug Huesdash…
Startup Trends in Detroit, With Detroit Build Institute's Evan Adams
Evan Adams is the Capital Programs Manager at Detroit's Build Institute, a Detroit-based incubator founded in 2012 that has already…
MTEC SmartZone Drives Unique High-Tech Business in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The world requires innovation—now more than ever. Science. Technology. Engineering. Math. Along the wild shores of Lake Superior…
BOAA Technology Industry Group President Michael Cole On The Tech Financing Process, Tech City Jam Friday
Bank of Ann Arbor Technology Industry Group courtesy graphic. When new businesses start up, arranging financing can be fraught. When that…
Register for DevOps Detroit, Oct 23-24 at The College for Creative Studies
Are you going to DevOps Days Detroit? This year, DevOps Days Detroit features speakers from tech towns across the U.S. from Silicon Valley…
Michigan Tech Podcasts: Dave Haviland of Phimation Strategy Hosts SPARK.Grow
Dave Haviland of Phimation Strategy Group and host of the new SPARK.Grow executive podcast out of Ann Arbor works with second-stage tech…
Black Belt SEO Tips With Nick Suino of Michigan SEO Group
Nick Suino stands outside Three Chairs Co. on the west side of Ann Arbor. He grew up just blocks northwest of here, which in the Sixties was…
What's The Best Way To Finance Your Startup? Ann Arbor VCs, Lenders, & Entrepreneurs Weigh In
The financing panel at Leaders Connect. From left to right, Michael Cole, Kris Bergman, Evan Ufer, Mike Klein, and Skip Simms. It was a…
Alexa, You're Fired: Why Conversational AI Startup Clinc Is Bulldozing The Competition
A Clinc meeting in progress we passed through on our tour of the Cahoots co-working space a few months ago shortly after Cronicle's launch…
Are You Going To The Dance? Disruption Brings Together Leaders of The Automation Revolution
Automation is revolutionizing the economy and our lives. On October 15th, in Columbus, Ohio, a dozen leaders of the automation revolution…
Ann Arbor Detroit Tech Events October 2019
The Ann Arbor Voxel51 team, just picked as a top 5 AI company in the U.S. by TechCrunch to present at Disrupt 2019. Forgive me, Father, for…
Behind the Scenes with Rosemark Home Healthcare Tech Company Shoshana
Shoshana Owner and President Tom Voiles stands outside the company's headquarters that are located in a shed and farmhouse on the grounds of…
Thank You, Ann Arbor Tech, for 100 Articles!
The founders of Finji Games laughing through an interview about their latest (courtesy photo). Finji's post was one of our most popular, and…
Mentors of Michigan Tech: ApprenTek Founder Tim Marsh on Recruiting Young Talent
On the day we met him, local IT security tech consultant Tim Marsh was on the phone dealing with a data breach for Equifax. He's a…
Global Climate Strike: What Is Your Tech Company's Sustainability Plan?
Young protestors on Ingalls Mall in front of Rackham Auditorium on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor hold signs for the Global…
Into The Dataverse! Hackathon This Weekend
Into The Dataverse Hackathon Starting today, Friday September 20th at 4:00 pm and running through Sunday September 22 4:00 PM, the Into the…
Every Time The Bell Rings, a Startup Gets Its Wings: Venture Accelerator's Diane Bouis Talks Connecting New Ann Arbor Startups
Innovation Program Manager Diane Bouis of the University of Michigan Venture Accelerator stands in the Office of Tech Transfer, where every…
Arbor Biosciences Uses AI and Machine Learning for Genomic Sequencing Analysis
Senior Research Scientist Ben Steil and Senior Applications Scientist Tyanying Lan stand next to an Arbor Biosciences Illumina DNA sequencer…
eLab Brings VC Funding to Ann Arbor AI and Machine Learning Startups
eLab Venture Capital Managing Director Doug Neal poses in front of the A2 Startup Garage on Liberty, where he meets with colleagues from Ann…
Censys Announces New Enterprise Platform To Curate Mass Search Data
The Censys Enterprise dashboard, where users can view cloud providers, certificates, hosts, and types of software their companies are…
Help OSHKI Clean Up The Great Lakes Plastic Pollution To Create Upcycled Gear
Oshki Beach Cleanup Here Marquette Beach Muskegon, MI www.AdamAlexanderPhoto.com ©Adam Alexander Photography 2019 Don't know about you, but…
Mentors of Michigan Tech: Jim Price of U of M Ross School of Business
Jim Price is a serial entrepreneur who found his passion teaching and coaching young entrepreneurs through the Zell Lurie Institute at the…
Revolutionary Graphene Sensors from Arborsense Measure Blood Alcohol Levels Through Skin
Name: Girish Kulkarni Uniqname: girishsk Department: BME Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing www.engin.umich…
Rob Pasick's Leaders Connect Breakfast Brings Tech Leaders Together To Talk Google Culture
Matt and Stacey, both Ann Arbor Googlers, talk about company culture and how the tech giant handles rapid change with transparency. Nice to…
Tech To Watch: The IT in the D Podcast
The IT in the D podcast team. Stop what you're doing and check out this huge list of Detroit-made podcasts. Included in that list: IT in the…
Ann Arbor & Detroit September Tech Events
It's already time for the fall September tech events for Ann Arbor Detroit! This list is not exhaustive, but is a fairly good gathering of…
3D-Printed Ligaments, Night Vision, & Hydroponic Lettuce: Inside the Mi-HQ Life Sciences Campus
Mi-HQ founder Mark Smith pose with an employee of Swift Biosciences at the Mi-HQ headquarters west of Ann Arbor. We often hear about the…
How To Get Into Tech When You Didn't Start There: An Interview with Mobile Mondays' Rob Baxtresser
It's not uncommon for people with a degree in music to end up in tech, not just for the jobs but because people with musical training often…
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…
Voxel51 Chosen As AI Top Pick To Present at Tech Disrupt 2019
The Voxel51 team, co-founder Jason Corso center. Co-founder and CTO Brian Moore fourth from left in rear. Ann Arbor's Voxel51, an AI startup…
Orangesplash's Geoxhibit Brings Interactive Machine Learning To Museums & Zoos
Designer Eszter Boldog left and Peter Lauwers right in the Orangesplash offices behind the meeting rooms of Arbormoon Software downtown Ann…
Scavenger Is An Augmented Reality Scavenger Hunt For Adults
It's been decades since we did a scavenger hunt, but these days augmented reality seems just the thing to make these old-fashioned games…
Detroit Art Emporium Invites You To A Multimedia Art Festival Saturday August 17
The Tangent Gallery in Detroit this weekend is hosting the Marvelous Detroit Art Emporium for a multimedia music and art show Saturday…
Tech Startup hEARt Brings An Empathetic Ear To Students Everywhere
College campuses have been through a number of crises lately, from dealing with increasing academic pressure to a growing number of active…
Office Evolution Experiences Early Co-Working Success in Ann Arbor
There are a number of successful co-working locations in Ann Arbor, so what makes yet another one special? David Whitinger of Office…
Nexient's Silas Bush on Bringing Cannes Young Lions Best Practices to B2B Tech Marketing
Cannes 2019 begins at the Palais in Cannes, France. How does a young marketer bring best practices from one of the world's most elite…
Alfa Jango Acts As CTO and Development Team for Startups
Alfa Jango founder Steve Schwartz stands in the company catacomb-style conference room in front of a number of checks written to his…
The Believers Are But Brothers Takes Tech & Theater Down a Dark Web Rabbit Hole
Trigger Warning: The following post contains adult themes and subject matter that may be traumatic or upsetting to some readers. The…
Pitch Club Michigan Is Coming to Ann Arbor
September 25 at SPARK Central in Ann Arbor, Pitch Club Michigan will be hosting a pitch club from 5 to 8 pm. YOU CAN STILL REGISTER TO PITCH…
Ann Arbor & Detroit Tech Events: August 2019
It's already creeping up on August and time for more tech meetups. We're adding more Detroit tech events this month as we begin to expand…
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Find VC Funding With the Michigan Entrepreneurial & Investment Landscape Map
It's an improving but still perennial issue for the "flyover states": finding funding for your business. Different types of tech companies…
Register By August 16th for the 10th Annual Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition
November 19th, 2019, at the State Savings Bank in Detroit, Invest Detroit will be holding their 10th annual Accelerate Michigan Innovation…
Tech Consultancy Llamasoft Announces $10.7 Million Expansion, Adds 70 Jobs
Ann Arbor-based supply chain software development consultancy Llamasoft yesterday announced an expansion that will bring another 70 jobs to…
Abaca To Launch 10 Degrees Game To Help With Climate Change & Reforestation
Chris Karounos is the co-founder and creative director of Abaca Games, a new startup out of Ann Arbor that is based in his masters research…
Award-Winning Finji Games Launches Overland Apocalyptic Road Trip Game
Sometimes you hear a Michigan "we had to leave because of the economy story" and it makes you happy, because success lay elsewhere--and then…
Pendaran Offers Immersive Experience-Based Systems Thinking Training Program
You enter a classroom. Instead of desks, a virtual workplace is laid out in front of you, including assembly lines, and banks of screens…
Optimize: The Student-Led Impact Venture Incubator Grows Up
In 2013, a group of University of Michigan students wanted to support each other's startup ventures. Some were tech focused, others social…
Mentors of Michigan Tech: Tom Meloche & The History of Agile Programming
Helene Gidley and Tom Meloche of a2agile give us a tour of their space in Office Evolutions co-working space on Eisenhower. Each room is a…
How Do You Ask For Help At Work? Give & Take Launches Givitas Software To Leverage Reciprocity
The man who founded popular ForeSee Results survey software you've seen on websites from Realtor.com to U.S. government websites is back…
Heart Shaped Games' We Are The Caretakers Is an Afrofuturist SciFi Squad Mgmt Game
