Associate Professor J. Alex Halderman has been named one of Popular Science's 2015 Brilliant 10 for his work in computer security and privacy. From exposing the vulnerabilities in e-voting systems to making voting more secure, he is the epitome of a “bright young mind” that Popular Science selects for their annual list. Prof. Halderman has made many contributions in the area [...]
As the mobile-enabled enterprise moves from being a tactical benefit to a strategic imperative, business leaders are able to quickly recognize the benefits. Seemingly on a daily basis, analysts are generating reports touting mobile-enablement’s effect on productivity and financial payback. Especially in areas such as revenue growth, sales effectiveness, and improved customer experience. Read more [...]
While the manufacturing industry focuses on connecting the Industrial Internet of Things, Sight Machine is extracting and analyzing existing data locked away on the factory floor. Read more here...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Aug. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Medora, an innovator in the cloud systems management space, today announced VMware (NYSE: VMW) as an investor in the recently announced Series A round of funding. The investment will help accelerate the development of Blue Medora's software solutions, which extend the functionality of VMware's cloud management Suite, VMware vRealize™. [...]
Enterprise software provider Blue Medora LLC has partnered with a Japanese I.T. firm in a move that will expand the Grand Rapids-based company’s reach into the Asia-Pacific market. The agreement involves Tokyo-based Computec Engineering Ltd., a provider of I.T., servers, applications and other services for more than a 1,000 clients. “(The partnership) gives us access to that market [...]
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Blue Medora, an innovator in the cloud systems management space, today announced a $4.6 million Series A round of venture capital funding. The round was led by Ann Arbor-based Michigan eLab, with participation from current investors Start Garden, Grand Angels and other equity holders. The investment brings Blue Medora's total funding to $6 million and will be used to [...]
SAN FRANCISCO--Sight Machine Inc., developer of the leading manufacturing analytics platform, today announced that Inteva Products LLC, a global automotive supplier of engineered components and systems, has selected Sight Machine’s manufacturing analytics solution for deployment in Inteva factories.
SAN FRANCISCO--Sight Machine, developer of the leading manufacturing analytics platform, today announced it has been named to Gartner Inc.’s list of “Cool Vendors in Manufacturing Operations” for 2015. Sight Machine is one of four companies profiled in the report.
Sight Machine Inc., a San Francisco-based company that uses cloud-based technology to monitor quality control on the factory floor, has closed on a venture-capital round of $5 million to ramp up its operations in Michigan.
Akadeum Life Sciences just landed a six-figure seed capital round. The $150,000 raise was led by Ann Abror-based venture capital firm Michigan eLab. "They are wicked smart entrepreneurs doing something really hard that will have a big impact on the world," says Doug Neal, managing director of Michigan eLab. "Those three criteria are really important to [...]
Michigan eLab is an investment firm launched a little more than two years ago with the idea of bridging the entrepreneurial ecosystems of Michigan and Silicon Valley. It’s well on its way to do that with its first two investments...
Michigan eLab has made its first local investment in Akadeum Life Sciences LLC, a startup that hopes to make it easier, cheaper and faster to prepare tissue, water or food samples for testing