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Plymouth Funding News
Plymouth Raises New $125M Fund for Startups Plymouth Growth Partners, a growth equity firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has just announced…
FDIC Seizes Republic in Third Bank Failure of 2023
Third Major Bank Failure of 2023 Republic Bank has been seized by the FDIC after the third major bank failure of 2023 in the U.S., following…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Bloomberg co-founder Matt Winkler and Editor Emeritus has published a piece on Michigan's #1 U.S. economy this week, saying that under…
Midwest High Growth Tech Startups to Watch 2022: Columbus
Columbus has a number of partnerships pulling together various cities around the state to pool resources on building a tech ecosystem, and…
Midwest High Growth Tech Startups to Watch 2022: Chicago
Chicago mints a new unicorn company about once a month now. That's because the Windy City has become a center for tech startups ever since…
The Midwest's High Growth Tech Startups To Watch 2022: Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor's Mobility Summit is one of a handful of newer conferences that highlight the drastic growth in the mobility space, as well as in…
FastTrack: SE Michigan's Fastest Growing Companies in 2021
Previous winners of a2tech360 FastTrack Awards include Ann Arbor's Human Element, a rapidly growing e-commerce solutions agency. Ann Arbor…
Music Streaming Startup Biscuits N Groovy Combines The Joys of Collecting with Crypto Tech
Ann Arbor's startup scene continues its growth with so many new startups we can't cover them all. A unique new offering from young serial…
Columbus Emerges As Fintech and Insurtech Startup Hub
This image c. the Greater Columbus Convention and Visitors Bureau captures the vibrant downtown, where many new fintech and insurtech…
Michigan Rises In Business Rankings, VC Funding
In mid-July, financial marketplace Credible ranked Michigan as #2 state in the nation for post-pandemic economic recovery, based on the…
Clarivate To Acquire Proquest
Clarivate to Acquire ProQuest, Creating a Leading Global Provider of Mission Critical Information and Data-Driven Solutions for Science and…
Want To Learn How To Invest in Cryptocurrency? Benzinga Launches News & Tutorials For Crypto Investors
Are you curious to learn about cryptocurrency and how to invest in crypto? You're not alone. The interest is so intense that Detroit's…
10 Ann Arbor Startups To Watch in 2021 (pt 2)
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
10 Ann Arbor Startups To Watch in 2021 (pt 1)
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
Michigan Midwest Startup Report (MVCA)
The 2021 MVCA Research Report has just been released, with more details available than our recent interview with Executive Director Ara…
Pitch Your Michigan Mobility Startup @ SXSW, Venture Summit, TC Sessions, & TechStars
Have a new startup in mobility, sustainable energy, or tech that you would like to pitch? Ann Arbor SPARK has just announced a number of…
Washtenaw COVID-19 Business Impact Report Now Available
Entrypoint's current Washtenaw County COVID-19 Business Impact Report is now available for anyone wanting an in-depth look at how the…
Collaboration Tool Shuffleboard Launches To Make Remote Teamwork More Accessible
Ann Arbor-based Shuffleboard officially launches today, with a 40% discount for anyone looking for a remote team collaboration tool. The…
Fintech Startup Pocketnest Explodes onto the Digital Financial Wellness Scene
Pocketnest, a new app for next-gen financial wellness used by top credit unions and companies like Cisco-Diag and The Henry Ford, has…
Groundspeed Disrupts Insurance Industry By Analyzing More Data through AI
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
Blumira Builds On Ann Arbor's Rise as Emerging Security Tech Hub
Blumira Raises $2.6 Million in Seed Round If you're in tech, you know something special has been happening in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the last…
20Fathoms Kicks Off New CyberSecurity Careers Mentoring Program tccyber
For the last year, Traverse City Michigan startup incubator 20Fathoms has been running a program called tccodes, to mentor professionals…
Washtenaw County's Economic Resilience Uneven But Holds Through COVID
EntryPoint today just released its 2020 Ann Arbor Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Report, which covers everything from 20 years of growth in the…
Behind The Scenes of Midwest Tech During COVID-19
An event at 20 Fathoms in Traverse City, Michigan, a growing coworking and incubator space for startups in northern Michigan. Incubator…
Protect Michigan Creates New Air Filtration PPE for Frontline COVID-19 Workers Facing High Viral Load
Ann Arbor's maker community has designed a simplified protective face shield with powered filtered flow, a little brother of the high-end…
16 Contactless Delivery Services To Make Work From Home Easier
In a short month, everything from grocery delivery to contactless delivery robots are becoming commonplace as the American workforce adjusts…
What Happens To Tech Coworking After Shutdown?
Companies around the world are navigating how to reopen after shutdown. In many cases, it simply isn't feasible for workers to return to…
Washtenaw County COVID-19 Business Impact Report Now Available
Michigan's business analysis firm EntryPoint has just released the Washtenaw County COVID-19 Business Impact Report to help business owners…
MVCA Releases 2020 Annual Research Report on Venture Capital in Michigan
Today, the Michigan Venture Capital Association released its annual research report on the state of venture capital in Michigan. As with…
The Detroit Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Report Is Now Available
EntryPoint Releases 2020 Detroit Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Report Michigan-based EntryPoint has just released their 2020 Detroit…
Lansing Region LEAP Emergency Small Business Relief Grant Applications Now Open To Mid-Michigan Businesses
We're posting these business loan and grant programs quickly for Michigan area businesses both because we know small businesses are hurting…
MEDC Announces Michigan Small Business Relief Program
MEDC Announces Michigan Small Business Relief Program Up to $20 million in grants and loans now available to Michigan’s small businesses…
MI Manufacturers, Tech Companies Available to Requests for Ventilators, Remote Work Tech, Business Resources
Michigan COVID-19 Medical & Technology Collaborations Page Is Now Live & Updating Daily Cronicle's MICHIGAN LIFE SCIENCES & TECH BUSINESS…
The World Health Organization Publishes Technical Guidelines for COVID-19 Researchers Studying Antibodies & Community Spread
WHO Releases Guidelines on COVID-19 Research for Studying Community Spread, Antibodies The World Health Organization has published…
Ann Arbor SPARK Business Resources for COVID-19 Response
Ann Arbor SPARK is emerging tech hub Ann Arbor's premier small business support organization and new business incubator. We connected with…
COVID-19: Michigan Offers Guidelines To Furlough Workers Rather Than Layoffs For Greater Assistance
The following is a press release from the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity. If your business is contemplating layoffs…
Emergency Funds To Help Michigan Small Businesses Through COVID-19 Planning
The following is a press release from LEAP in Lansing, Michigan regarding COVID-19 emergency funding and access to small grants and loans…
Lean Rocket Lab Offers Incubator Mentorship to Midwest Manufacturing Tech Companies
Lean Rocket Lab in downtown Jackson, Michigan, a global hub of manufacturing companies. Brandon Marken is co-founder and CEO of Lean Rocket…
COVID-19 Coronavirus Resources for Michigan Residents & Businesses
We've spent the week asking around for regional resources and up-to-date information on COVID-19/Coronavirus prevention and quarantine…
Michigan Tech Events, March 2020
UPDATE 3/12/20: Due to widespread event cancellations related to the spread of COVID-19 virus, please check with organizers to see if groups…
From Water Pollution to Cannabis Testing: Traverse City's SampleServe Automates Environmental Survey Data
Environmental Sampling Goes Digital Russell Schindler is the head of TCNewTech in Traverse City, which at 1600 members averages 200 people…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Gradient Valley Builds New Machine Learning AI Company in Ann Arbor
Gradient Valley founder Keith Bourne presenting about machine learning development on Google Cloud Platform at DevFest conference in…
Popular Research Site JSTOR Plans Expansion To User-Uploaded Content
ITHAKA president Kevin Guthrie speaks at TechTalk 2019 during Ann Arbor's a2tech360 tech week, at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor. We saw…
WCC IT Outsourcing Scandal & How You Can Get Involved
The story broke on Reddit a couple of weeks ago with a story by Washtenaw Community College student Marie Wood, and has gotten a lot of…
Anime Style Gaudium Games Explains How To Build an Indie Gaming Studio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4OHy\_DBuFo Gaudium is an Ann Arbor-based gaming studio that creates classic anime-style games. We sat down…
Dreaming Door Games Launches New Open World Game Golden Treasure: The Great Green
Just launched this week, new Windows/PC game Golden Treasure: The Great Green is a Michigan-produced philosophical open world game that puts…
Google Announces Expansion to Ann Arbor and Detroit Offices
Google CFO Ruth Porat pictured right at the Taylor Community Library in Detroit. Courtesy photo. Senior Vice President and CFO of Google and…
KLA-Tencor Celebrates Opening of $70M Headquarters in Ann Arbor
KLA's John Mclaughlin announces a corporate expansion during Tech Talk 2019 before explaining how the company handles extremely high…
a2Tech360 Behind the Scenes 2029: What The Future Holds
Ravi Pendse PhD, VP for IT and CIO at the University of Michigan, kicked off 2029: What The Future Holds with a keynote all about emerging…
The Future of Mobility Tech: TU-Automotive Software Conference in Detroit
Septentrio of Belgium creates high-accuracy GPS for vehicle positioning. The Septentrio tech comes from industrial applications such as…
Dug Song of Duo Security: How To Make Tech Success A Success For The Entire Community
Dug Song, founder of Ann Arbor unicorn Duo Security, talks at Intermitten Conference 2019 at The Ark in Ann Arbor about how tech companies…
Ann Arbor-based Clinc AI Announces $52 million Series B
A Clinc team tackles a quick meeting in their second-floor office at Cahoots in downtown Ann Arbor the week before the announcement of a $5…
realLINGUA Launches Immersive Language Learning Software
"We build software that teaches you how to learn a foreign language the way it’s spoken by native speakers every day." Keith Phillips is the…
Ann Arbor Tech Professionals: Call for Interviews
Cronicle Press launched just over a month ago, and already has 1,000 users, thanks in large part to you, the professionals of Ann Arbor tech…