Threefold Sensors to hire 8, fueled by state funding
Source: metromode, 1/31/2008
Threefold Sensors/IA Inc. has developed a test that can provide results in just six minutes, and is using a $400,000 loan from the state's Company Formation and Growth Fund to create eight jobs.
Ann Arbor's Velesco to add 9 jobs
Source: metromode, 1/31/2008
Velesco Pharma Services is getting ready to roll, adding nine jobs over the next year, thanks to a $450,000 loan from the state's Company Formation and Growth Fund.
Meditrina to hire 4, clinical development continues
Source: metromode, 1/31/2008
With a $200,000 loan from the state's Company Formation and Growth Fund in hand, Ann Arbor's Meditrina http://www.meditrina.com/Pharmaceuticals is poised to add four positions.
A2 Biotech consulting firm increases federal investment in local start-ups
Source: metromode, 1/31/2008
Since 2005, Biotechnology Business Consultants (BBC) have helped bring $39 million in federal funding to Michigan start-ups. Husband and wife team Michael and Lisa Kurek, who specialize in tooling start-up grant proposals for Department of Defense and National Institutes of Health guidelines, saw 40 to 50 percent of their clients make the cut.
Green Space: Van-pooling made easy -- and even lucrative
Source: metromode, 1/31/2008
The federal government's new Commuter Choice program gives employers incentives to subsidize their employee's mode of commute -- as long as it is via public transit or an authorized van pool. That's where Troy's VSPI come in.
Azure Dynamics settles in to Oakland digs
Source: Oakland Business Review, 1/31/2008
Azure Dynamics, with offices around the world, has begun to move its operations to Oak Park. The company creates hybrid systems for commercial truck and bus fleets and electric trucks.
ePrize launches revolutionary new software
Source: Great Lakes IT Report, 1/31/2008
Online marketing and promotions firm ePrize has launched a new software that COO Gerry Miller says is the biggest technological advance in the company's history.
Pfizer donation aimed at Michigan life sciences, biotech
Source: metromode, 1/24/2008
Pfizer, Inc., may have closed its doors, but the company continues to investment in Michigan's economy, most recently announcing that $6 million worth of research equipment will be available for life sciences start-ups.
NxtGen considers Wixom investment, would create 47 new jobs
Source: metromode, 1/24/2008
If you're a cleantech energy firm, Wixom has a lot to recommend it - proximity to your intended client base, a good pool of tech talent and a whopping heap of state incentives.
So says Jeremy Holt, president and CEO of Canada-based NxtGen Emissions Controls, Inc. The cleantech firm is considering a handful of sites, and Holt says they're weeks away from a decision.
Livonia software company to hire 25 in '08
Source: metromode, 1/24/2008
Livonia's WorkForce Software, Inc. recently made a valuable connection with Texas-based venture capital firm ORIX Venture Finance and secured $5.5 million in investment.
Green Space: GM partners with biofuel producer
Source: metromode, 1/24/2008
General Motors has made a big announcement: they have partnered with Coskata, an Illinois-based company that can convert just about anything to biofuel. Corn, move over and let garbage take over.
Middle school kids design cities of the future
Source: Great Lakes IT Report, 1/24/2008
Dewey-eyed, idealistic middle-schoolers, designing a futuristic city - it sounds adorable, but these lads and lasses are more than just mediagenic photo ops. The contestants in the Engineeering Society of Detroit's Future Cities competition researched nanotech, water and power technologies - and, one hopes, came up with a few green solutions that grown-up engineers might pay heed.
Ann Arbor's ProQuest buys Maryland firm
Source: Great Lakes IT Report, 1/24/2008
Metromode reported late last year that Ann Arbor-based ProQuest - an information collecting, organzing and publishing company - was moving on up, with a site expansion and plans for aggressive hiring in the works. This week, we learned that ProQuest is expanding in another way, with the purchase of Maryland-based RefWorks.
Economic development, workforce agencies working together
Source: Great Lakes IT Report, 1/24/2008
When the going gets tough, the tough collaborate. A new University of Michigan study has found that economic development and workforce agencies are working together to fix Michigan's economic ills.