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The Last Office Before the Jungle: Adding Adventure to Work Culture
I once went to a beach restaurant on a small island in the Grenadines called The Last Bar Before The Jungle. It was an oversized beach shack with wea[...]

By Lauren Zyber
Ann Arbor's Blumira raises $15M, launches new XDR security platform
Blumira, an Ann Arbor-based cybersecurity startup, announced today that it has raised $15 million in Series B financing and is launching a new platfor[...]

By Lauren Zyber
12 Cool Companies Hiring Engineers, Marketers, Managers and More
Time for a change? More and more tech companies are hiring and looking for talented people to join their teams. In fact, according to Crunchbase, in t[...]

By Evan Weese
Cleveland-based Workforce Intelligence Company Axuall Raises $20M
Axuall, a Cleveland-based workforce intelligence company serving healthcare organizations, has raised $20 million in a Series B fundraise. The round w[...]

Why You Need a Founder Origin Story
How did a wedding invitation create a multi-million dollar brand? It all started one Thanksgiving break when Jenn Hyman watched her sister model a dre[...]

By Lauren Zyber
Michigan-Based RoboTire Is In The Fast Lane For AI Innovation, Growth
You never know when your next big idea will strike. For Victor Darolfi, it was at a tire shop. He had been waiting three hours for his wife’s tires t[...]

By Lauren Zyber
This Summer's Hottest Midwest Tech Events
Mark your calendars! The summer is starting, and the Midwest momentum is only growing. Tech events all around the Midwest are lined up for the season.[...]

By Evan Weese
Columbus Startup SureImpact Raises $2M to Measure Philanthropic Impact
Columbus startup SureImpact has raised $2 million to help nonprofits measure, understand, and share their philanthropic impact. The seed round was led[...]

By Meg Hovious
5 Ways to Create Sustainable Change in Workplace Mental Health
For many of us, nearly a third of our lives will be spent in the workplace. We spend more waking hours in our (physical or virtual) workplace than at [...]

By Ryan Landau
Finding Balance with Adam Schoenfeld
How do you build something that lasts? That's just one of the questions we tackled in our latest episode of Finding Balance, this time with Adam Shoe[...]

By Alli Kelly
At GreenLancer, Success Starts with Team Members
Although they’ve been around for 10 years and have great brand recognition in the renewable energy space, GreenLancer still operates like a startup on[...]

By Lauren Zyber
This Week's Top Midwest Tech News
It's been an exciting week for Midwest startup and tech news. While the tech job market is still in the doldrums, there's been quite a bit of startup [...]

By Lauren Zyber
Indianapolis Startup Qualifi Raises $4.5M to Transform High-Volume Hiring
Qualifi, the Indianapolis-based startup helping enterprises with high-growth hiring, recently announced that it has raised $4.5 million in an oversubs[...]

By Ryan Landau
Finding Balance with Julia Kimmel
Talking about work-life balance in an interview isn't taboo anymore. Or at least, it shouldn't be. Just take it from Julia Kimmel, VP of People at Ro[...]

By Alli Kelly
Redefining Employee Growth: Boon's Personalized Coaching Platform
Have you ever experienced burnout? We get it, and so does Alex Simmons. While working in finance in 2019, he faced severe burnout and sought therapy, [...]

By Lauren Zyber
Top AI Startups & Tech Companies to Know in Emerging Tech Hubs
Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest topics in tech, but the reality is — AI companies have been working on this for a long time. ChatGPT ha[...]

By Evan Weese
Ohio Tech Summit is Back for 2nd Year—This Time in Columbus
The Ohio Tech Summit is back after a successful debut last year, this time in Columbus. A year after holding its inaugural summit in Cleveland, OhioX[...]

By Amanda Lewan
Detroit's Startup Ecosystem Has Massive Momentum
In 2010, two years after the auto industry’s recession, the unemployment rate in Detroit reached a staggering 24.9%. At the time one major industry wa[...]

By Lauren Zyber
8 Things About the New KLA Office That Will Blow You Away
Tucked in the woods just east of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a $200 million, state-of-the-art office that feels, well, out of this world. “You don’t find[...]

By Alli Kelly
Top Startups and Tech Companies that Offer Mental Health Days
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, but for those who struggle with mental health issues, finding support is a year-round challenge. There’s no dou[...]
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A VC’s Guide to Startup Hiring: Compensation & Benefits
Though the venture capital industry is known for handing out the big bucks to — hopefully — promising startups, the industry is less known for their o[...]

By Alli Kelly
Midwest Tech Job Digest: Software Engineer Jobs
Looking for a Software Engineer job at a cool Midwest startup? There are companies out there that are still hiring! And they want to meet you👇 Jump[...]

By Ryan Landau
Finding Balance with Alex Frommeyer
Finding balance between your work life and personal life can be a huge challenge. It's not as simple as keeping a consistent work schedule. There are [...]

By Lauren Zyber
Detroit Tech Community Sees Active Week in Funding for AI, Security
Funding may be slowing down across the board, but Detroit sure had a busy week in startup activity. Three Southeast Michigan tech companies announced [...]

By Alli Kelly
5 Lessons From Leaders Inspiring The Next Generation of Women in Tech
On March 28 we sat down with a group of fearless female tech leaders to talk through their experience of being a woman in the tech industry. We covere[...]

Why Emerging Tech Hubs Are Leading the Way in Chip Development
High-tech semiconductor manufacturing, venture capital, and Silicon Valley share a common origin story. In 1955, William Shockley left the East Coast[...]

By Evan Weese
Why this Cincinnati native returned from San Francisco
Tom Williams grew up in Cincinnati with the idea that you should move to a major market to start your career. So, after graduating from the University[...]

By Lauren Zyber
Michigan Fintech Startup TiiCKER Raises $5M in Seed Funding
TiiCKER®, a Detroit and Grand Rapids-based startup, just announced that it has closed a $5 million seed funding round to accelerate its marketing and [...]

By Alli Kelly
Midwest Tech Companies and Startups Who Care About Sustainability
You’ve heard it before: Earth Day is every day. It’s a cutesy slogan used in April pretty much every year and although its excitement has worn off wit[...]

By Jasmit Kaur
Your work-life balance initiatives aren’t working. Here's why.
Early in my career, I was advising a global company’s newly established technical support group whose employees worked in shifts to provide 24/7 phone[...]

By Lauren Zyber
Purpose Studios Presents: Life at Veeva, Behind the Scenes Docuseries
In 2018, Veeva Systems, a Silicon Valley-founded tech company powering the path to the world’s new medicines, announced a new U.S. Hub office in Colum[...]

By Alli Kelly
Midwest Tech Job Digest: Just Dropped!
Okay, so the layoff numbers still look bad. Nearly 170,000 people have been laid off in the tech industry this year. But let’s put things into perspec[...]

By Alli Kelly
Top Martech Startups and Tech Companies in the Midwest
Marketing has come a long way over the years — from printing out a few dozen signs on 8.5x11 sheets of paper and hanging them up around town to geotag[...]

By Lauren Zyber
Thriving Inside — And Outside — The Office At AccumTech
What do a mead maker, Danny DeVito cardboard cutout and healthcare claims all have in common? AccumTech. Located in Ann Arbor, AccumTech is an inclus[...]

By Alli Kelly
Top Mission-Driven Startups and Tech Companies in the Midwest
A fulfilling career goes far beyond a nice paycheck and a modern office space. It even goes beyond remote-life, flexible working hours, and work-life [...]

By Lauren Zyber
Midwest Tech Events: Spring 2023
We love springtime! Things start picking up again, we all emerge from our winter cocoons, and warmer weather brings the return of outdoor gatherings a[...]

By Alli Kelly
Best Companies for Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance. Work-life integration. Separation of work and life. Whatever you want to call it, the peace we find between our work life and our p[...]

By Alli Kelly
Midwest Tech Job Digest: Non-Tech Jobs
If you're one of those people who is looking for a new opportunity because you didn't like the review you received, didn't get the raise you wanted, s[...]

By Alli Kelly
How RIVET Work is Keeping the Construction Industry Alive
Construction labor is not increasing fast enough to meet demand, creating a tight labor market and putting contractors at increased risk of workforce [...]

By Lauren Zyber
8 Metrics to Measure the Success of Your Employer Branding Strategy
So you have your employer branding strategy built. You've started creating content. You're distributing it across your channels. Your team is attendin[...]

By Lauren Zyber
Crafting an Effective Employer Value Proposition
In today's job market, it's not enough to simply offer a paycheck and a few benefits to attract and retain top talent. Organizations need to create an[...]

By Alli Kelly
Top SaaS Startups and Tech Companies to Know in the Midwest
Software as a service is no longer a new idea — but it still packs a big punch in the way we do things. From construction to healthcare, SaaS companie[...]