Claudia Capos

   Novadiol is on a mission to improve the lives of people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). That’s a tall order for the six-year-old startup based in suburban Kansas City, Kansas. CKD has emerged as a silent killer that is spreading as fast as diabetes across the U.S. Each year,... Read More

The service industry is mired in a crisis. Products are becoming increasingly diversified and complex. Customers’ expectations for a quick fix when problems or breakdowns occur are rising. At the same time, experienced older technicians are retiring, leaving newcomers with considerably less on-the-job knowhow to pick up the slack. Mohan... Read More

Dan Chagnovich, MBA ’09, has worn a number of different hats over the course of his 17-year career. His pathway progressed from academic scientist to molecular-technology researcher at a big pharmaceutical company to research and business-development manager at a therapeutics startup. From there, he became a management consultant at a... Read More

It was official in February. Detroit-based ride-sharing startup Splitting Fares Inc. (SPLT) has been acquired by Robert Bosch GmbH and is now a wholly owned but independent subsidiary of the German technology and services supplier. Since its launch in New York City and its subsequent move to Detroit, SPLT has... Read More

Hackers seem to dominate the headlines these days, as major companies ranging from Yahoo and Uber to Equifax and JPMorgan Chase report data breaches resulting in the theft of millions of consumers’ information. Blame it in part on the changes in the way people access and share sensitive information. The... Read More

Mehrzad Samadi, Ph.D. ’14, began working on the development of high-performance computing technology while he was pursuing his doctoral degree in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. At the time, co-founding a startup company with a fellow student and their faculty advisor was not on his radar.... Read More

Investors signed up for this year’s Michigan Growth Capital Symposium have an opportunity to get more bang for their buck by attending the 2018 Biomedical Innovation Cup pitch competition on Wednesday, May 16, directly following the symposium’s closing luncheon. Now in its fourth year, the Biomedical Innovation Cup complements the... Read More

An entrepreneur’s pathway is often strewn with knotty challenges that need quick, nimble solutions, says serial entrepreneur Steven Bloembergen, chairman and CEO of GreenMark Biomedical. “I liken starting a new company to childbirth,” he explains. “It’s exciting but often painful. You cannot afford to rest on your laurels and think... Read More

All systems are go at Genomenon, a software-as-a-service company spun out of the University of Michigan in 2014 that offers products designed to improve the efficiency and accuracy of genomic-sequence analysis. “The company is doing phenomenally well,” reports CEO Mike Klein, who joined Genomenon in August 2016. “Our sales pipeline,... Read More

This year’s Michigan Growth Capital Symposium on May 15 and 16 will be something of a homecoming for Michigan alumnus Jack Miner as well as an opportunity to show off a new cohort of emerging biomedical technology companies spun out of Cleveland Clinic. “Getting out of our network in Cleveland... Read More