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Specialized Tools for Remote Business Operations
Specialized Tools for Remote Operations Beyond the fundamental business support tools used by many teams these days such as Slack, Zoom, and…
What Is Happening with Airbnb?
Airbnb Struggles Impacting Michigan Tourism Industry Airbnb stock recently crashed 14 percent (Yahoo! Finance) in response to lower than…
Announcing Cronicle's New AI Tool Guides for Small Business
Announcing Cronicle's New AI Series for Small Business You may have noticed a lull recently as we switched gears at the beginning of 202…
Dev Ops Days Detroit 2023 Preview
DevOps Days Detroit 2023 Preview A worldwide series of technical conferences focused on software development and IT infrastructure is…
X (Twitter) Adopts New Business Model
X, Formerly Twitter, Adopts New Subscription Model X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has announced plans (Bloomberg) to test three…
University of Michigan Offers First of Its Kind AI Suite
University of Michigan Offers First-of-its-Kind AI Suite ANN ARBOR – As artificial intelligence services are growing exponentially in many…
Digital E-Commerce Tools
This is a guest post by Cronicle Press contributor Dean Burgess. For more information about Dean's work, visit Excitepreneur.net. Must-Have…
Proceptual Introduces HR Compliance Tool
HR Software for AI and Automation Compliance Chicago AI compliance startup Proceptual has just announced the launch of its tech-enabled…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Midwest High Growth Tech Startups To Watch 2022: Detroit
Detroit is now chock full of incubators, startups, VCs hunting for dealflow in the Midwest, bootcamps, and career fairs. Photo credit the…
Eoxs Pivots to Analytics Software for Steel
Eoxs has been one of the most popular stories we've covered on Cronicle. The startup disrupted steel buying technology by providing an e…
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…
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…
Project Synergy Automates Data Tracking and Collab for Automotive Prototype Builds
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
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…
Guilde Launches An App To Simplify Contracting Bids
Detroit's Donavan Wright was a residential real estate investor in several locations he had lived across the U.S., which he "used to help my…
New Michigan Startups Pitch Tech for Social Justice, Trade, and Legal Relief
A2NewTech is a tradition around Ann Arbor and Michigan startup culture. New startups come to pitch ideas for feedback, to attract funding…
Ann Arbor Tech Company Nutshell Launches Unique CRM Product for Marketers
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
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…
Ann Arbor Fintech Startup Pocketnest Continue Rapid Growth
Jessica Willis of Ann Arbor's Pocketnest has encouraging words for other founders working through hard times. Despite a challenging year, a…
Behind The Scenes Look at Massive Consolidation in the Auto Industry's Suppliers with 123Go's Dominic Rea
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
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…
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…
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…
How Agile Is Adapted for Instructional Design & Online Training
This post is sponsored by business support organization Ann Arbor SPARK, which promotes the growth and development of businesses in…
TechTalk 2020: Lessons From Entrepreneurship In Changing Times
Susan Wagner of KLA Corporation spoke up front at this year's TechTalk out of Ann Arbor on the importance of diversity and inclusion…
The Applied AI Conference in Ann Arbor Highlights Trends in Artificial Intelligence
A2.AI Conference Highlights Trends in Applied AI This week's a2tech360 conference has continued the newer Applied AI conference, which…
Ann Arbor's a2tech360 Hosts 16 Different Online Tech Events This Week
It's finally here: Ann Arbor's annual tech week, a2tech360, starts today and runs all next week with 16 online tech events highlighting the…
Online Coaching Finds New Platform with Yottled
Personal training and wellness coaching went online during the COVID-19 shutdown, which put thousands of coaches in charge of their own…
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…
Voxel51 Releases Computer Vision Industry's First Open-Source Rapid Data Experimentation Tool
Ann Arbor startup and TechDisrupt 2019 AI top pick Voxel51 just announced that it has just launched a new tool called FiftyOne, the computer…
Censys Raises $15.5 Million, Hiring To Double Staff, As Cybersecurity Startup Announces New Features
The Censys team in Ann Arbor's Main Street offices. In light of the recent Meow attacks that delete vulnerable databases on the internet, we…
What Makes Work From Home Work?
Heidi Hagle, Stefanini VP of People and Culture, works from her home office. Companies everywhere are looking for best practices and tech…
David Ponraj's StartupSpace Democratizes Access For Underserved Business Owners
David Ponraj is founder and CEO of StartupSpace Just a little over 2 years ago, David Ponraj decided to do something for underserved…
Flint Uses AI Mapping To Finish Lead Pipe Replacements by Year's End
How do you replace all the lead pipes in Flint when you don't know how many there are? It's a problem now faced by multiple municipalities…
Can AI Show Empathy Like a Parent Teaching a Child? realLingua Is About To Show Us
Patent strategy firm Aurora Consulting in Traverse City recently awarded several startups in the Midwest with a RISE Award, which stands for…
Software Company UrsaLeo's Ann Arbor Expansion Supports Manufacturers with Digital Twinning Tech
What Is Digital Twinning Tech for Advanced Manufacturing? Enterprise software company UrsaLeo recently announced an expansion into the…
University Budgets Were Hit Hard: Can Software Help?
Universities everywhere are trying to trim budgets and plan for virtual instruction in case of a second wave in the Fall 2020 semester, but…
Finally an End-to-End Encryption Video Conferencing Software
Popular video conferencing software Zoom and other remote conferencing tech services have been in the news lately for failing to fully…
Startup LoanSense Uses Algorithm To Help Find The Right Loan Forgiveness Program, Even Years Into Repayment
Catalina Kaiyoorawongs, co-founder of LoanSense, a startup out of emerging tech hub Ann Arbor that uses an algorithm to match users with the…
Text Mine COVID-19 Research Using ITHAKA's New Text Mining Service
Text Mining Service For Researching Aggregated Data The idea? Put publicly available datasets all in one place so it's easier for…
What Makes A Work From Home Technology Suite Secure?
Overnight with the coronavirus outbreak shutdowns across the world, business owners and employees were asked to convert to work from home…
Voxel51 Releases COVID-19 Physical Distancing Impact Trend Analysis Tool
Ann Arbor's Voxel51, which offers advanced machine learning tools to analyze video, has just released a tool that looks at the social impact…
Be A Part of Ann Arbor-Detroit COVID-19 Tech and Biomedical Collaborations
In collaboration with the A2 Biosocial meetup group and a number of professionals in the IT and biomedical field in Ann Arbor and the Great…
Defense (Tech) Innovation Drink & Think In Grand Rapids Jan 30
Tomorrow in Grand Rapids, the Defense Innovation Drink & Think is taking place. This event, according to organizer Gregg Wildes of…
Software Company Jottful Builds Creative Community in Tech and Coworking
The ladies who run Jottful set out to help very small businesses with fewer than 5 employees create professional websites. "Our clients are…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BrandXR Launches Virtual Reality Business and Interactive AR Murals
An Orlando augmented reality-enhanced mural by Brand XR's Moody Mattan and several partners. Moody Mattan of BrandXR, a newer augmented and…
ShiftUp Builds Tech Community in Detroit & The Online Ed Space
Community. It's a topic that has rolled around tech and learning communities lately because of the growth of online education and the…
Tech-Inclusive Lowers Barriers to People Entering the Tech Industry
An Intro To Programming class put on by Tech-Inclusive. Ronda Bergman pictured left. Courtesy photo. What does tech need more of? What we…
The Master List of Game Development Studios of Michigan
Austin Yarger is a University of Michigan lecturer on gaming development and president of Arbor Interactive studios. Like a lot of sectors…
Mentors of Michigan Tech: Dave Koziol of Arbormoon
Jennifer Marsman leads the Ann Arbor Machine Learning Group hosted at Arbormoon Software. Photo courtesy Arbormoon. If you've been around…
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…
Log Your Travel Adventures with Zonder
Harry Yang and Demi Yang pose in front of the art of local "fairyologist" sketch artist Jonathan B. Wright, the man behind the Ann Arbor…
Kinetica Labs Launches New Ergonomic Software
The Kinetica Labs MotionCapture app allows the user to take a video with a smartphone for upload to analyze ergonomic risk of a worker…
Thomson Reuters' Nina Schell Talks User Experience Design in Real Life
Nina Schell, user experience designer at Thomson Reuters, visits with Cronicle at Argus Farm Stop on Packard for coffee. "You can always…
Calling Geeks of All Ages: The New Interactive Tech of the Ann Arbor Hands On Museum
You've been to kids museums, hopefully as a child and again as an adult parent or volunteer. They are the coolest places. Hardly anyone…
Eric Shapiro: The Oscar The Grouch MacHack Guy
Eric Shapiro poses outside popular Downtown Home and Garden in downtown Ann Arbor, where the first flowers of the season are for sale. Do…
Innovation Not Break Fix with RightBrain Networks
Jamie Begin, founder of RightBrain Networks and DevOps Days Detroit. Courtesy photo. "I guess one of our challenges is that we've been…
Entire Interview Redacted with Blue Newt Software's Bob Kuehne
If Cronicle ever gives out a Nicest Dude/Dudette in Tech Award, the first one is going to Bob Kuehne of Blue Newt (not to mention his super…
Falling Into Fame with David Adrian of Censys
A network guy in his native habitat. David Adrian, Co-founder and Engineering Manager at Censys on the streets of Ann Arbor. It's not every…
Reinvestment & A2 Culture with Jordan Martz of Databricks
The problem with growing Ann Arbor tech faster than it's already growing, according to Databricks Solutions Architect and Partner Jordan…
Mike Beasley of Amazon on the Growth of UX in Michigan
Photo courtesy Mike Beasley, Amazon. Mike Beasley of Amazon is the co-chair of UX Ignite MI with his colleague Andrea Neuhoff of Duo…
Peerstachio: A Student Venture About Connection Connects with A2 Tech
Peerstachio is a social platform for connecting students with peers for academic help. In our recent two-part series on the student…
Chip Off Silicon Valley: The Student Entrepreneurs of Ann Arbor (Part 2)
... Continued from Part 1 Alison Elgass of Busy Box. ... Innovation in Action uses the same work space as TechArb for students to come…
Chip Off Silicon Valley: The Student Entrepreneurs of Ann Arbor (Part 1)
Michelle Wander, Ryan Gourley, and Erin Moore, Assistant Director of Student Engagement and former Program Manager at Innovation in Action…