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This is an article about portfolio company, Bloomscape.

Real Simple’s mission, through its 20 years, has been to simplify your life with smart finds like these. Clear up acne breakouts subtly, cut the perfect slice of bread, and more with these staying-at-home-friendly items.

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Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a global leader of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced that it has acquired Celsee, Inc., a company that offers instruments and consumables for the isolation, detection, and analysis of single cells. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Bio-Rad will discuss the acquisition in more detail during its first-quarter 2020 financial results conference call.

Celsee’s Genesis System offers a practical, scalable, and efficient approach to accurately analyze single cells. Using the Genesis System, scientists can isolate, analyze, and interpret cellular behavior and collect cell-based information for improved results in applications such as single-cell cytometry, single-cell transcriptomics, single-cell multiomics, rare-cell enrichment and enumeration, and immune monitoring. The system can scale from hundreds of thousands to millions of cells for genomic and proteomic applications and can enrich or monitor circulating tumor cells to determine disease progression and therapeutic response.

“We are pleased to have Celsee join Bio-Rad,” said Norman Schwartz, Bio-Rad President and CEO. “Their innovative products and technologies will extend our reach into the rapidly growing world of precision medicine and single-cell analysis, both of which offer enhanced insight into disease, diagnosis, and treatment.”

Founded in 2011 and based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Celsee’s customers include

This is an article about portfolio company, Mi Padrino.

Kim Gamez, Jackson native and founder of Mi Padrino, has started a fundraiser and hopes to raise enough money to donate 100,000 much-needed CDC-approved N95 surgical masks to the medical community. She is using her unique online business platform to get the job done.

“Mi Padrino is an event planning platform for the Hispanic community based out of Jackson, MI that helps hundreds of thousands of families plan and fund traditional Hispanic celebrations,” says Gamez. “Last year alone we had over 900,000 users of the platform. In Hispanic culture, you will have ‘padrinos’ (godfather or sponsor) to help pay for different parts of your event, kind of like crowdfunding or a gift registry.” Mi Padrino sources goods from all over the world that they sell online, while also allowing their users to create event pages and receive gifts online.

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This is an article about portfolio company, MaxOne.

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COVID-19 has taken everybody by surprise. With schools closed across much of the United States, practice for spring sports have been cancelled and offseason regimens for all sports have been put on hold. This pandemic has left nearly 36 million youth athletes and their coaches stunned, and unsure of what to do and how to move forward.

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SOUTHERN PINES, N.C., March 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — First Bank, the largest community bank headquartered in North Carolina, has announced its launch of Autobooks, a small business payment and accounting platform that seamlessly integrates with the bank’s online and mobile banking.

Autobooks allows First Bank business clients to create invoices, accept payments, and pay bills automatically. This saves them from having to track down their customers or vendor partners for credit card numbers or checks. Business owners also get access to accounting tools and real-time reporting within Autobooks that make month-end, year-end, and tax-time assessments much less stressful. All of this lives directly within First Bank’s secure online banking system, making it easier for a small business owner to manage their cash flow.

“First Bank is committed to being the best bank for small businesses, so the decision to add Autobooks was an easy one,” said Jenna Williams, SVP, treasury services manager at First Bank. “Everything is extremely accessible from within our online and mobile banking platforms, and it automates a number of otherwise time-consuming, complicated processes for our clients.”

Steve Robert, co-founder and CEO of Autobooks, said, “We are proud to partner with First Bank to make small business banking better.  By integrating our solution directly within online and mobile banking, a small business owner consolidates the management of their business

This is an article about portfolio company, Bloomscape.

I don’t exactly have a green thumb. In fact, I’ve managed to kill quite a few succulents, and I’m much more comfortable with the idea of a faux plant adding a pop of color to my living room than tending to a live one. So when I heard about Bloomscape, an online plant shop that delivers potted plants nationwide and provides free care advice from its resident “Plant Mom,” it seemed like the best way for me to start a living houseplant collection.

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Grand Rapids, MI, March 4, 2020 (Business Wire) – Tetra Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel treatments for patients with cognitive impairment and memory loss, today announced it has entered into an expanded strategic alliance with Shionogi. The two companies will work together to develop and commercialize BPN14770 for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, Fragile X syndrome and other indications marked by cognitive and memory deficits.

 Under the terms of the expanded alliance, Shionogi has increased its equity investment in the company to 50% and has the option to complete a structured buyout of the remaining equity if certain closing conditions are met based on the topline results of the company’s clinical Phase 2 PICASSO AD trial in patients with early Alzheimer’s disease expected to read out later this month.

 Tetra is developing BPN14770 for the treatment of brain disorders marked by cognitive and memory impairment including Alzheimer’s disease and Fragile X syndrome. In addition, Tetra has completed enrollment in a Phase 2 study of BPN14770 in adults with Fragile X syndrome, an indication for which BPN14770 has received Orphan Drug Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

“This expanded alliance with Shionogi further validates our platform and the potential for BPN14770 to provide a new treatment option for patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease,” said Mark Gurney, Ph.D., Chairman and Chief

This is an article about portfolio company, Orbion.

A new alliance between two out-of-this-world companies could make commercial accessibility to space easier and cheaper. That’s thanks in part to a technology called Hall-effect plasma thrusters.

Hall-effect plasma thrusters are a type of ion drive in which a propellant is accelerated by an electric field. The technology has been around since the 1960s, and Hall-effect thrusters were in use on Soviet satellites between 1972 and 1990. 

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This is an article about portfolio company, Bloomscape.

If you’ve spent any time on Instagram or watched even one YouTube beauty tutorial, you may have noticed that all the coolest women seem to have plants in their bathrooms. Naturally, these green-draped self-care oases are a source of envy for anyone who considers their daily skincare routine to be an almost spiritual practice, but how do you know if the plants you’re bringing into your bathroom are actually good for that specific space? 

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Detroit, MI - According to Pitchbook, in 2019 Invest Michigan was the fifth most active venture capital investor in the ‘Great Lakes’ region. In 2019, Invest Michigan made 16 investments into 14 high-growth technology companies. PitchBook defines the ‘Great Lakes’ region as comprising six of the states that border the Great Lakes: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Since 2014, Invest Michigan has been among Michigan’s most active early-stage investors, completing 110 investments into 52 early-stage companies.

Pitchbook’s 2019 Global League Tables can be found at:

 https://files.pitchbook.com/website/files/pdf/PitchBook_2019_Annual_Global_League_Tables.pdf