Orbion Space Technology

Orbion Space Technology raises $9.2 million amid rising demand for plasma thrusters for small satellites

A company in Houghton that developed a new plasma thruster to propel satellites into space has raised $9.2 million in an early round of venture capital financing...
Data Scientist

Care For Data Accuracy? Go For Golden-Record-As-A-Service @Naveego

With the launch of next-generation data accuracy platform by Naveego, it has marked another landmark in the respective field...
Naveego

New Naveego Platform Release Emphasizes Self-Service MDM, Data Quality Capabilities

Naveego’s next-generation Data Accuracy Platform makes it possible to develop a “golden record” data set that becomes an organization’s single version of the truth for data analytics and other tasks...
Naveego

Naveego adds new capabilities for non-technical users to Data Accuracy Platform

Naveego also now uses machine learning to add the ability to profile data at the edge without having to transfer it...
Front Street Irregulars

Front Street Irregulars Meet (Quietly) To Aim For Intentional Growth Of Region

What do the formation of 20Fathoms, the passage of the 2018 Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS) bond initiative, and the push for local high-speed fiber internet service have in common?...

Startup Ecosystem Long, Winding Road

Faurecia will be the first customer for Promethient, a Traverse City startup backed by the supplier, private equity and academia, and it has some advice for other traditional players looking to connect with up-and-coming innovators...

Consider This: Philosophy For Your Everyday Life

Jordan Lindberg, a Traverse City native, has grown eFulfillment Service into a very successful regional e-commerce company. You can’t compete with Amazon, but eFulfillment Service does...
Traverse City

Traverse City’s Narrative Is Changing; Here’s How To Deepen Our Market Advantage

Our federal tax law, adopted in December 2017, had an interesting and largely overlooked piece of policy tucked in...
Casey Cowell

So what motivates a man whose own company (U.S. Robotics) sold for $6 billion?

His name is on Munson Healthcare’s Cowell Family Cancer Center, he pledged $1 million to...

Casey Cowell & Greg Johnson Take Newton’s Road into the WTCM Studio with Ron Jolly

He helped incubate Traverse City’s startup incubator, and his investment group Boomerang Catapult is working to ...

The New Localism

There is a new dynamic defining what it means to be “local.” In their book “The New Localism,” Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak explain how locally driven economic development ...

Welcome to the Land of OZ!

Our federal tax law, adopted in December 2017, had an interesting and largely overlooked piece of policy tucked in. The measure began in February 2017 as a separate bipartisan effort in the Senate to incentivize increased private investment ...