Great Lakes Angels invests in Ann Arbor’s Blaze Medical Devices
Blaze Medical Devices recently closed a $250,000 seed capital round that was led by a handful of investors from the Great Lakes Angels Group. The Ann Arbor-based startup is developing a product that focuses on quality control and optimization for the blood banking and transfusion industry. The technology analyzes stored blood to allow clinicians to predict the effectiveness of transfusions by assessing the levels and rates of quality loss during... [Read More...]
Great Lakes Angels invests in Ann Arbor’s Blaze Medical Devices
Blaze Medical Devices recently closed a $250,000 seed capital round that was led by a handful of investors from the Great Lakes Angels Group. The Ann Arbor-based startup is developing a product that focuses on quality control and optimization for the blood banking and transfusion industry. The technology analyzes stored blood to allow clinicians to predict the effectiveness of transfusions by assessing the levels and rates of quality loss during... [Read More...]
Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition Announces 53 Semi-Finalists
Semi-finalists for the $1 million Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition were announced today. The 53 semi-finalist companies will deliver their business pitches to investors on November 16-17 at the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti Marriott at Eagle Crest for the chance to win cash and prizes. Ann Arbor area semi-finalists are Vinci Technology Corp, Current Motor, ECO-Fueling, Accio Energy, Arbor Wind, H3D, GPX Software, i3D Technologies Inc.,... [Read More...]
4 Companies Receive Michigan Microloan Funding
The Michigan Microloan Fund Program recently awarded four Michigan Companies a combined total of $122,000. Akervall Technologies, Blaze Medical Devices, Ellison Corp. and Waste Water Heat Transfers Systems all received the funding to support commercialization of their core products. Akervall Technologies are based in Ann Arbor and have developed the Protech Dent™ mouth guard. Blaze Medical Devices is also based in Ann Arbor and is developing... [Read More...]
Angels in the open
Business Week just published a list of the most active and successful angels in the country. Check out this article http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/future_of_tech_2010/ The disappointing part of the list is that all investors, except #25, invest in IT companies only. IT of course covers a lot of industry subsectors like software, mobile apps, gaming, computing, internet, etc. But I didn’t see alternative energy, materials,... [Read More...]
