Bay Area’s TubeMogul Opens Detroit Office to Pursue Automotive Ad Dollars
Sarah Schmid
TubeMogul, a Bay Area startup that runs a platform distributing pay-per-view video ads across the Internet, announced earlier this month that it is opening an ...
Kiva’s Domestic Microlending Initiative Expands to Flint
Sarah Schmid
Kiva Detroit, Kiva’s first domestic microlending initiative—and the country’s first community-led microlending program—spent its first year focused ...
NYT: Chinese Automakers Building Detroit Presence
Sarah Schmid
A story ran in Monday’s New York Times detailing the increasing presence of Chinese automakers in Detroit. Though the headline suggested the Chinese companies ...
NewME To Bring Silicon Valley to Detroit With Pop-Up Event
Sarah Schmid
The San Francisco-based NewME Accelerator, a tech startup incubator focused on businesses led by minorities underrepresented in the tech world, is planning a ...
ePrize Snaps Up Competitor in Third Acquisition This Year
Sarah Schmid
The Pleasant Ridge, MI-based digital marketing and engagement company ePrize announced this week that it has acquired Promotions.com. The terms of the deal were ...
Rockwell Medical Set to Disrupt Dialysis Treatment With New Drugs, DaVita Deal
Sarah Schmid
In the late 1990s, Wixom, MI-based Rockwell Medical revolutionized the dialysis industry by being the first to develop, patent, and bring to market a dry acid ...
Quikly: Part Daily Deal, Part Flash Sale, All Growth
Sarah Schmid
Back in February 2012, Xconomy profiled Shawn Geller, the founder and CEO of the startup Quikly (though back then it was called Quikkly).
Geller had come to Detroit ...
Ambiq Micro Continues Growth From Austin Base
Sarah Schmid
When we last caught up with University of Michigan spin-off company Ambiq Micro, it was moving its microcontroller development operation to Austin, TX. Co-founder ...
Vectorform: Quietly Developing Software for Some of the World’s Largest Brands
Sarah Schmid
The news hit the blogosphere two weeks ago that Michigan Gov. Rick Syder’s administration was supposedly holding secret meetings with tech companies in ...
Synthetic Biologics, Fuelled by Billionaire, Takes Aim at C.Diff
Sarah Schmid
[Corrected 5/3/13, 2:30 p.m. See below.] Founded in 2001, Synthetic Biologics is a biotech company headquartered in Rockville, MD, with an office in Ann Arbor, ...