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Michigan Startups: Funding, Investors & Startup News

Midwest Startup Funding for the week ending September 11 2026

Midwest Startup Funding for the week ending September 11, 2026

Founder Interview: Ryan Stevens of Digital Reference - From startup COO to Founder

Founder Interview: Ryan Stevens of Digital Reference - From startup COO to Founder

(Almost) Nobody Is Going to Tell You No: How to Translate a VC Pass

(Almost) Nobody Is Going to Tell You No: How to Translate a VC Pass

Founder Stories: Nikhil Teja Kolli of MokSa - AI-powered security for retail

Founder Stories: Nikhil Teja Kolli of MokSa - AI-powered security for retail

Andressen Horowitz 1 billion hardware fund is the Midwest as equity partner or tenant

Andressen Horowitz’s $1.1 billion hardware fund: is the Midwest equity partner, or tenant?

Midwest Startup Funding for the week ending September 4 2026

Midwest Startup Funding for the week ending September 4, 2026

Building the plane while it is taking off

Before You Fundraise, Make Sure Your Company Is Real

Midwest Startup Funding for the week ending August 28, 2026

Man in mid air with basketball for Vote in the 2026 Startup Benchmarks Survey

Vote in the 2026 Startup Benchmarks Survey

The Midwest College Rankings 2026

Midwest Startup Funding to August 21 2026

Midwest Startup Funding for the week ending August 21, 2026

Broken Chain link on blue background for networking so hard by Claire Stevens

Networking So Hard, We Forgot the Whole Point

A Rocket for the Inc 5000 fastest growing companies

26 Midwest Companies in Top 250 of the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing 2026

The Secret VC: Midwest Corporate Venture Is Just Private Equity in a Trench Coat

The Secret VC: Midwest Corporate Venture Is Just Private Equity in a Trench Coat

Midwest Startup Funding for the week ending August 14 2026

Midwest Startup Funding for the week ending August 14, 2026

How Midwest builders manage pressure by Aria Spears of Michigan Founders Fund

The Weight Founders Carry: How Midwest Builders Manage Pressure

Pigs might fly but the dollars in Midwest startup funding were strong

Midwest Startup Funding for the week ending August 7, 2026

Corporate Venture Is the Midwest's Home-Field Advantage - Don't Let It Go Dormant

The Secret Founder: Belief isn't the bottleneck, execution is.

The Secret Founder: Belief isn't the bottleneck, execution is.

Piggy on a bath - Midwest Startup funding for week ending July 31 2026

Midwest Startup Funding for the week ending July 31 2026

The infrastructure advantage by Ruby Miller build the shovel not just the goldmine

The infrastructure advantage: build the shovel, not just the goldmine

UnDemo Day 2026: Applications close this week as investors - and the NVCA - come to Detroit

PitchMI startup competition - $2 million but are attention and hype the real prize

PitchMI startup competition: $2 million, but are attention and hype the real prize?

Midwest Startup Funding for the week ending July 24 2025

Midwest Startup Funding for the week ending July 24 2025

German American Chamber of Commerce visits the Midwest from North Rhine Westphalia Midwest

Is this German region a mirror image of the Midwest?

StartMidwest Startup Funding Q2 2026

Midwest Startup Funding Q2 2026: $1.27 billion across 114 deals

StartMidwest - Aria Spears Experiments and lessons from small town ecosystems

Experiments and lessons learned from small town ecosystems

StartMidwest the Midwest Dairy Accelerator in Chicago has chosen six startups for latest cohort

Midwest Dairy Accelerator presents six startups for 2026 cohort

StartMidwest Michigan startup funding for Q2 2026 featuring Slate auto

Michigan led Midwest in Q2 2026 startup funding off just 14 deals.

StartMidwest Automate Chicago 2026 Humanoid Robot forum

As GM swaps workers for robots in Detroit, Chicago's Automate show previews what's next

Could a Hackathon solve the Midwest visibility Gap?

Life as a Quarterback: Due Diligence from an investor’s perspective

Y-Combinator backed Nox Metals raises $11.5m seed round for metal manufacturing in Detroit

The Secret VC: Everyone wants to ‘invest’, no one wants to lead.

Builders below the radar: What pattern-matching might cost us

StartMidwest - states across the Midwest are considering what to do about data centers

Midwest states courted data centers for years. Now some are asking who pays.

Ann Arbor's Volt Harbor raises $2M seed to commercialize software-defined energy storage

StartMidwest Utilidata rack-level AI power module Ann Arbor Michigan

Ann Arbor's Utilidata closes $100M Series C with $40M extension

Partnership between Kinetyc and Klear helps small-scale manufacturers bridge the finance gap; fintech has now processed $100m in transactions.

In small-scale manufacturing, winning a contract is when the issues start.

StartMidwest Mollie Kuramoto High Alpha dangers of a broad ICP for early stage startups

Why Midwest Founders Cannot Afford Broad ICPs

StartMidwest Global Tech Ecosystem Index 2026 Lincoln Nebraska

Where Midwest startup hubs rank in Dealroom's 2026 Global Tech Ecosystem Index

StartMidwest - Backing Wonder in Growth Stage Companies by Michelle Erikson of Straylight Capital

Backing Wonder in Growth Stage Companies

The SBA's Patriot Pitch Competition opens applications through June 10, offering a $1M prize pool funded by Clover for SBA-backed small businesses.

SBA $1M Patriot Pitch Competition for 250th anniversary celebrations

The Secret Founder why does Midwest fundraising feel like applying for a job

The Secret Founder: Why does Midwest fundraising feel like applying for a job?

Front page of the 2026 State of Talent Access & Hiring Report, a Midwest startup hiring survey by StartMidwest, Digital Reference, and Purpose Jobs.

The State of Talent Access & Hiring Report 2026: What the data tells us.

Red Bull Basement World Final decided after Detroit pitch event

StartMidwest - Future State What to expect at Michigan Tech Week

Future State: What to expect at Michigan Tech Week

StartMidwest Newlab innovation hub in Detroit, Michigan, host venue for the May 15 Right to Start event on entrepreneurship and small-scale manufacturing.

The case for bottom-up economic development in manufacturing

StartMidwest Secret VC Funds are the entry fee of venture capital

The Secret VC: Funds are the entry fee of Venture Capital. The Real Value is Reputation.

StartMidwest - Josef Hjelmaker of Electric Outdoors tells his Founder story from sweden to germany to michigan

Founder Stories: Josef Hjelmaker of Electric Outdoors

The Operator Gap: What Midwest Startups Are Missing, and What We Can Do About It

StartMidwest Ann Arbor's Sygaldry raises $139M to build quantum computers for AI data centers

Ann Arbor's Sygaldry raises $139M to build quantum computers for AI data centers

StartMidwest - Fundraising Q1 2026

Midwest startup funding Q1 2026: a record US quarter, but Midwest share shrinks

StartMidwest - VC Advice whether to raise funds or not - Allie Singer

A Midwest VC’s Guide: To raise or not, tis the question

StartMidwest - Slate Truck - 650 million

Michigan’s Slate Auto secures $650 Million Series C for Affordable Pickup Truck

Most University Innovations Aren’t Meant to Be Startups

The 2026 ‘State of Midwest Innovation Ecosystem’ report with Dealroom

StartMidwest - eLab Agent First Startup Challenge at ClawCon

VC firm lets AI decide $50,000 investment at ClawCon Michigan

StartMidwest - Sebastian Penix - Where is the Innovation Capital

Are We Evaluating Our Ecosystems? Or Just Counting Money?

StartMidwest - Caroline Wolanin of Straylight - Detroit vs Everybody

It's Detroit vs. Everybody. Including Itself.

Corn Rocket - StartMidwest - Inc Fastest Growing Companies Midwest

What Inc.’s fastest-growing Midwest companies list says about growth

Censys - StartMidwest - 70 million fundraise

U of M spinoff Censys Raises $70 Million to Expand Internet Intelligence Platform

StartMidwest - High Alpha - Midwest Founders Take Longer to Raise

Midwest Founders Raise Just as Well — But It Costs More to Get There

StartMidwest - MidwestHouse Pitch Competition

The invisible work powering SXSW: A first-timer’s perspective

StartMidwest - Moneyball in Minnesota by Ellie Piggott of Traction capital

Is Minnesota Primed for Moneyball Investing?

StartMidwest - SecretVC - Stop Celebrating Mediocrity

The Secret VC: Midwest Investors, stop celebrating mediocrity

Who Builds the Builders? The Rise of Trainee-Led Biotech Communities

StartMidwest ‘Significant moment’ for Midwest Innovation Ecosystem as Research Universities Open SF Outpost. Third Coast Foundry

‘Significant moment’ for Midwest Innovation Ecosystem as Research Universities Open SF Outpost.

Start Midwest University of Michigan reps the Midwest at SXSW with Innovation Beyond the Coasts event

Michigan reps the Midwest at SXSW with Innovation Beyond the Coasts event

StartMidwest Ann Arbor startup EGI Battery closes $10 million seed round

Ann Arbor startup EGI Battery closes $10 million seed round

StartMidwest Do Midwest Ecosystems have an Identity Problem?

Do Midwest Ecosystems have an Identity Problem?

StartMidwest - Straylight Capital - Michelle Erickson - the case for tech enabled services

Human-Powered Trust is the Real Moat: A Case for Tech-Enabled Services

StartMidwest Founder Stories: Justin Turk of ConStrat AI

Founder Stories: Justin Turk of ConStrat AI

StartMidwest author Terry Howerton of TechNexus in Chicago suggests Where the Midwest Should Replicate Silicon Valley

Where the Midwest Should Replicate Silicon Valley

If You’re Building in Michigan, Your Map Is Too Small

Ford and GM Expand into Energy Storage Markets

Midwest Moxie: Using sound waves to evaporate tumors - Histosonics

Where Is the Innovation Capital? Midwest Investors Must Catch Up to Their Founders

John Deere announces new cohort of 2026 startup collaborators

The Secret VC The Secret VC: Exit Math Is Destiny - Midwest Funds and Mega Funds are playing different games

The Secret VC: Exit Math Is Destiny - Midwest Funds and Mega Funds are playing different games

StartMidwest Chris Kaufman of StockX in Detroit Founder Story

Founder Stories: Chris Kaufman of StockX

Future in the Making: How AI is changing Manufacturing

StartMidwest Why does promising scientific innovation fail to launch?

Why does promising scientific innovation fail to launch?

StartMidwest Ecovia Bio raises Series B to scale biodegradable biopolymer production

Ecovia Bio raises Series B to scale biodegradable biopolymer production

Why More Midwest SaaS Companies Should Embrace Design Earlier

StartMidwest author Sebastian Penix talks about The Capital Delusion: Why Founders at Every Level Get Funding Wrong

The Capital Delusion: Why Founders at Every Level Get Funding Wrong

StartMidwest Michigan Unveils 10 Year Maritime Strategy for Great Lakes Innovation

Michigan Unveils 10 Year Maritime Strategy for Great Lakes Innovation

StartMidwest Michigan launches Statewide Economic Transition strategy

Michigan launches Statewide Economic Transition strategy

StartMidwest author Caroline Wolanin of Straylight Capital asks Should Founders Talk to Junior VCs? The Advice Is Right — and Also Wrong

Should Founders Talk to Junior VCs? The Advice Is Right — and Also Wrong

StartMidwest asks if The Midwest: the new Data-Center Heartland of America?

The Midwest: the new Data-Center Heartland of America?

What you need is rhythms, not resolutions — and Michigan is the best place to create them

StartMidwest CES 2026: the future of tech is now physical, industrial, and operational

CES 2026: the future of tech is now physical, industrial, and operational

StartMidwest The Secret VC: Stop Asking "Who Else Is In?”

The Secret VC: Stop Asking "Who Else Is In?”

The Boomerang VC: Ilana Habib on Midwest Grit, Patient Capital, and Building Bigger in Ohio

StartMidwest Midwest funding for Q4 2025

Midwest funding for Q4 2025

StartMidwest The Secret Founder: Hey Midwest VCs, please stop cosplaying Silicon Valley

The Secret Founder: Hey Midwest VCs, please stop cosplaying Silicon Valley

Midwest Startup investment was poor in 2025. Where to in 2026?

StartMidwest 2025 Michigan startup news year in review

Michigan Startup News 2025: Year In Review

StartMidwest 2025 Midwest startup funding: Year in Review.

2025 Midwest startup funding: Year in Review.

StartMidwest Midwest Startup Founder Stories: Year in Review 2025

Midwest Startup Founder Stories: Year in Review 2025