72 Articles in 2022
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
Cronicle Hires Tim Busbey as Second VP of Content
Photo courtesy Tim Busbey. We are happy to announce Cronicle's second hire for our content marketing division, where we write blogs and…
Atomic Object Opens New Raleigh Office
New managing partners of Atomic Object's Raleigh-Durham expansion Taylor Vanden Hoek and Ryan Abel. Successful Michigan-based custom…
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…
Michigan EGLE Grants Split $2M To Help the Environment
A newer pitch competition is trying to help Michigan's economy and environment at the same time. The Michigan Department of the Environment…
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…
Ann Arbor's tech week to include high-tech art, music and networking
It's that time again: Ann Arbor's premier tech event a2tech360 is now a week of tech-related events for all audiences from professionals to…
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…
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…
Cronicle Hires realLINGUA Founder Keith Phillips as VP of Content
Cronicle has quickly expanded from a Midwest tech blog project based out of Ann Arbor-Detroit covering the emergence of Midwest cities as…
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…
Dalle & Stable Diffusion: AI Has as Hard a Time Drawing Hands as I Do
Stable Diffusion image of AI generated faces. Image courtesy Stability AI. Stability AI recently announced the public launch of their…
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…
Durable Antimicrobial Coating Kills Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Minutes
Photo courtesy the University of Michigan. The antimicrobial coating is clear, even when applied in a thick layer to surfaces. News out of…
Chicago Startups Continue Fundraising Streak
Salesforce Tower, Chicago, courtesy Salesforce. Built in Chicago reports this week that it has been another busy month for the windy city's…
Prototype Your Product with 3D Printing from TreeTown Tech
Photo courtesy TreeTown Tech. Ann Arbor's TreeTown Tech has created a modeling program for prototyping products using a variety of 3D…
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…
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…
Chicago's Fly.io Closes $37 Million in Funding, Is Hiring
Chicago's Fly.io helps small companies launch and run applications with a global network of servers with low latency and affordable prices…
record-breaking VC investment draws 43x investment dollars to Michigan
Michigan is a flyover state no longer. Even in the midst of a pandemic that shut down swaths of business, venture capital was still at work…
Want to Write Tech News? We're Hiring!
We've been busy lately, as the content marketing side of Cronicle has taken off. It's still small, but we need help writing for Cronicle and…
Grow with Google Program Helps Michigan Residents Enter or Switch Tech Careers
Looking for a career shift or boost in your tech career? Google's Grow With Google program is offering professional training and…
Ford Cuts Jobs To Fund EV Investment
A Ford F150 Lightning charging. Photo courtesy Ford Motor Co. In a cost-cutting move to assure the jump to an EV future, Ford Motor Co. is…
Watch Webb Space Telescope Feed Live
The Webb telescope’s first released image, of the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. The light from SMACS 0723 in this photo is 4.6 billion years…
Join the NEF Pitch Pit July 14
The New Enterprise is hosting another NEF Pitch Pit July 14, at SPARK Central in Ann Arbor, MI. Join us for July 2022: Pitch Pit Competition…
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…
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…
Columbus's Branch Achieves Unicorn Status
Columbus insurtech startup Branch has achieved unicorn status with a total valuation of $1.05 billion with its Series C raise of $14…
University of Michigan Partners with Meta To Build Social Media Data Archive
The University of Michigan is partnering with Facebook parent company Meta to build a social media data archive. The project intends to make…
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…
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…
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…
Midwest Climate Tech Startups Find Funding through Evergreen
Evergreen Climate Innovation’s 501vc Investment Fund now invests $200k - $300k in early-stage climate tech startups in the Greater Midwest…
Wind Turbine Drone Inspection Startup SkySpecs Raises Record-Breaking $80M Round Led by Goldman Sachs
Ann Arbor-based renewable energy O&M solutions startup SkySpecs has just announced an $80 million strategic capital raise led by the…
Septentrio Partners with MicroPilot for Secure High-Accuracy Drone GPS
Septentrio, an industry leader in high-precision GNSS positioning solutions, has just announced a collaboration with MicroPilot, a creator…
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…
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…
Ann Arbor's a2tech360 Is Back in 2022
HumanElement wins a FastTrack award for rapid business growth at a2tech360 2021. Have you been waiting for a2tech360, Ann Arbor's tech week…
Thank you for 400 Articles, Midwest Tech!
Thanks to the generous support and interest of those of you in the Midwest tech community and beyond, Cronicle Press has just hit another…
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…
Pitch Your Startup at 2022 Pitch @ WCC
The Washtenaw Community College Entrepreneurship Center's premier event of the year, Pitch @ WCC, is taking place this year in hybrid format…
GM Secures Raw Materials & Partnerships To Produce Future EVs
The 2024 Chevy Silverado EV. GM and PG&E have been exploring the use of EVs as backup power generators. A number of materials shortages have…
Security Startup Blumira Offers Free Edition of Business Security Service
Blumira has just announced a Free security monitoring service edition of the company's business threat monitoring and response security…
Find Funding For Your Business with SPARK's Funding Stage Guide & Programs
Did you know that Michigan business incubator and support organization SPARK helps with guiding regional entrepreneurs through the startup…
Find Climate Business Funding with the CleanTech Funding Database
The Clean Energy Business Network has created a database of funding opportunities for cleantech businesses. This helps pair eligible…
LG Energy Solution To Invest $1.7 Billion in EV Battery Production in Michigan
LG Energy Solution announced this week that they will invest $1.7 billion and create 1,200 jobs at the company's current location in Holland…
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…
Genomics AI startup Genomenon rapidly expands genomics data userbase, raises $20 million
Genomenon leadership Steve Schwartz, Mike Klein, Mark Kiel, and Candace Chapman at the startup's headquarters in Ann Arbor. Genomenon, Ann…
MedTech Startup MediView XR Raises $9.9M
MediView XR, a Midwest-based medtech startup out of Cleveland, just announced they have raised a $9.9 million round of funding. This round…
North Coast Ventures Raises $38M for Midwest SaaS Startups
Cleveland's North Coast Ventures has raised another $38 million to invest in Midwest startup companies, after investing $60 million in 5…
Visit Northern Michigan Startup Week or Pitch Your Business Idea
TC NewTech and other tech organizations including 20 Fathoms, Northern Michigan Angels, and Newton's Road are about to host the Northern…
New Enterprise Forum Annual Entrepreneurship Award Winners
New Enterprise Forum (NEF) recently announced the winners of its annual Entrepreneurship Awards. These awards are given in recognition of…
Michigan Home to Most Improved Economy in the U.S.
Bloomberg co-founder Matt Winkler and Editor Emeritus has published a piece on Michigan's #1 U.S. economy this week, saying that under…
Save the Date for Ohio's New Tech Summit
OhioX has just announced a new tech summit for Ohio, bringing together some of the top speakers from growing startups in the region. As we…
Investors Pour $2.8 Billion into Fastest Growing Global Hub Toronto
The world's fastest growing tech hub is now Toronto. The Waterloo Corridor around Toronto has finally achieved its goal of creating a tech…
May Mobility Raises $83 Million in Series C Supported by Toyota, BMW
May Mobility, one of Ann Arbor's top mobility startups that created a self-driving shuttle, just closed an $83 million Series C round of…
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…
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…
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…
Lower AI Offers High-Yield Savings Match to Homebuyers, Grows by 1,000 Employees, Raises $100M
Columbus fintech Lower, launched in 2014, has had an amazing year, with nearly 1,000 employees added in 2021 and a Series A round raised of…
Boomerang Catapult Invests in Uru Sports of Traverse City, a Global Athlete Networking Service
Boomerang Catapult has just announced a significant investment in Uru Sports, a Traverse City, Michigan, startup that has created a global…