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This is an article about portfolio company, Bloomscape.

It’s impossible to thank Mom in just one day for everything she does. A plant given to her on Mother’s Day lets her enjoy your heartfelt sentiment over the seasons.

Here’s an easy source to remember: plants.com. It’s quick to search for plants in pretty pots by lifestyle (beginner, pet friendly), interest (Feng shui or air purifying), light in the room and specific types such as succulents.

The growing tips are fun to read. A purple Phalaenopsis orchid (on sale at $31.99) “digs bright, indirect light but can handle low light levels too.”

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This is an article about portfolio company, MI Padrino.

David’s Bridal aims to develop a lifetime customer and hopes that entering the Quinceañera market will be another avenue to introduce young customers to its brand. “From her Quinceañera to her prom and the day she walks down the aisle, David’s Bridal will be her go-to destination for all life events,” the retailer said. 

There are about 525,000 Quinceañeras in the U.S. every year, according to 2019 data from Mi Padrino, with the average cost totaling over $21,000. With gowns for the event typically priced around $1,000, according to David’s Bridal, it gives the retailer room to position itself at a value price point without having to compromise details, like handcrafting. 

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This is an article about portfolio company, Bloomscape.

“Flowers are great, but why not gift Mom something she can enjoy longer?” Curry says. “This Philodendron Heartleaf from Bloomscape requires little to no maintenance and even has heart-shaped leaves, which couldn’t be more appropriate for Mother’s Day.”

Buy It! Philodendron Heartleaf, $35; bloomscape.com

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This is an article about portfolio company, Bloomscape.

“Our vision is to reinvent the garden center. I think any modern brand right now, any startup retailer, knows that you can start digitally. You can reach a much more potent audience across the nation faster launching digitally, and you get such an intimate, direct connection with your customers when you start that way.”

– Justin Mast, Bloomscape founder and CEO

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This is an article about portfolio company, Fusion Coolant Systems.

In an effort to become more sustainable in its machining practices, Seco Tools has partnered with Fusion Coolant Systems (Fusion), which offers an environmentally-friendly coolant technology that can lower the overall carbon footprint while increasing overall performance.

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TechCrunch just hosted its first pitch-off in Detroit and we’re pleased to announce Diet ID won the event. The company, based in Detroit and founded in 2016 by Dr. David Katz, gives users a clinically tested approach to dietary assessment and management.

Diet ID competed against other Detroit-area startups, including Rivet Work, Plain Sight and FixMyCar. Local investors acted as judges: Jim Tenzillo, VP at Invest Michigan; Dawn Batts, Capital Strategist at TechTown and co-founder of Commune Angels; and Ben Bernstein, principal at Invest Detroit Ventures.

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This is an article about portfolio company, Genomenon.

NEW YORK – Genomenon said Monday that it has partnered with Limbus Medical Technologies to integrate its Mastermind genomics literature search engine into Limbus’ Varvis, a genomics-based clinical diagnostics decision support system.

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This is an article about portfolio company, Bloomscape.

Houseplants are a beautiful addition to any home—but with all their various needs and demands, caring for an array of plants may seem daunting to first-time plant owners.

Fortunately, there are plenty of plants that do not require much care. In fact, there are even plants that thrive with minimal attention and can withstand high levels of neglect.

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EAST LANSING, Mich. and ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — GreenMark™ Biomedical Inc. announced that the company has secured regulatory clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) to market its LumiCare™ Caries Detection Rinse as a 510(k) Class II Medical Device. “Gaining FDA clearance for our LumiCare™ device at this particular time is especially gratifying given the significant pandemic challenges of the last year. I need to acknowledge the efforts of the entire GreenMark team and our regulatory partners,” stated Dr. Steven Bloembergen, Ph.D., GreenMark’s founder, Chairman and CEO. GreenMark plans to commence sales of the product in the fall of this year.

The before and after images of a tooth using LumiCare? Caries Detection Rinse

Dental caries, the world’s most prevalent chronic disease, affects more than 95% of Americans over their lifetimes and, when left untreated, can lead to dental cavities. GreenMark’s LumiCare™ rinse enhances visualization of carious lesions (cavities and pre-cavities) by targeting and illuminating sub-surface porosities in enamel, thereby aiding in the detection of caries. The technology utilizes bioresorbable starch-based nanoparticles which degrade due

This is an article about portfolio company, Fintech.

y now, most of us are familiar with the concept of fintech — that is, the application of technology and innovation to improve upon long-standing financial services. Originally, fintech impacted just one industry, albeit an expansive one: banking and finance. However, like most strains of disruptive technology, it was only a matter of time before it found its way into other industries.

Some twenty years ago, soon after the dot-com crash, we heard industry prognosticators high and low bandy about the idea of “Web 2.0.” Though the term was overused, and criticized by some as just a useless buzzword, the concept helped to convey the fact that the web was moving away from static one-way information delivery and toward interactivity and participation.

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This is an article about portfolio company, Ripple Science.

ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 30, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Ripple Science, an emerging eClinical company servicing the clinical research site, life sciences and pharmaceutical services markets, announced today the appointment of Jeanne Hecht as a Non-Executive Director to the company effective immediately.

As CEO of JTH Consulting, LLC., Jeanne commands broad knowledge and deep expertise in the Life Sciences arena. She has dedicated much of her career to guiding international companies through healthy growth – thoughtfully, strategically, and with unyielding integrity. In addition to running her consulting practice, she serves as NED for a publicly-traded company out of the UK, Vectura Group (VEC).

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This is an article about portfolio company, Genomenon.

ANN-ARBOR—Genomenon, the genetics informatics company, has completed a $5.3 million financing round, company officials announced.  The financing will enable the company to expand its commercial operations, which serve genetic testing labs, hospitals, pharmaceutical and biopharma companies.

New investors in this round of financing included BroadOak Capital Partners LLC of Bethesda, Md., Green Park & Golf Ventures of Dallas, Red Cedar Ventures of East Lansing, and the East Lansing pre-seed firm Michigan Rise, with continued support from existing investors Invest Detroit Ventures, IrishAngels of South Bend, Ind., Michigan Angel Fund, Invest Michigan, and Atain Specialty Insurance Co. of Farmington Hills.

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Small businesses can no longer cling to paper billing ou of inertia, opening a route for financial technology to each a new audience of proprietors.

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This is an article about portfolio company, Mi Padrino.

This story is part of a series about Washtenaw County businesses’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Support for this series is provided by Ann Arbor SPARK.

What’s a girl to do when she has the dress, but no party to wear it to? This was the question facing Kim Gamez, CEO and founder of Mi Padrino, an online party planning platform for quinceañeras and other traditional Hispanic celebrations. Days into the COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020, one of the wholesalers who sells products on Mi Padrino let Gamez know it had ceased making dresses and switched to masks instead. 

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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Movellus, Inc. today announced that Achronix, a leader in high-performance FPGAs and embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP, has adopted Movellus’ Maestro intelligent clocking solution for its Speedster®7t FPGAs. Speedster®7t FPGAs are used in high-performance communications, artificial intelligence, machine learning, automotive driver assistance, compute acceleration, industrial and military applications.

“We were impressed by the increased performance and power-efficiency our system design team was able to achieve using the TrueDigital™ Module within the Movellus Maestro intelligent clock network platform.”

Achronix offerings include discrete high-performance and high-density FPGAs with hardwired system-level blocks, embedded FPGA IP, PCI Express form factor datacenter and HPC hardware accelerator cards, and best-in-class EDA software supporting all Achronix products. The latest Speedster®7t high-density and high-performance FPGA family is optimized to meet the growing demands of AI/ML and high-bandwidth data acceleration applications. Speedster7t devices offer a unique 2D NoC that allows for ASIC-level performance data transfers between the FPGA fabric and the high speed interfaces including GDDR6 and DDR4/5 memory interfaces, 400G Ethernet and PCI Express Gen5 ports.

“We were impressed by the increased performance and power-efficiency our

This is an article about portfolio company, Bloomscape.

2020 was the year of the great indoors. And, since we couldn’t recreate misty ocean breezes or the Santa Ana winds inside our apartments, many of us relied on houseplants to refresh the air inside our spaces. Now, we’re back in the swing of spring and it’s time to give that air-purifying indoor pandemic garden a refresh.

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