Sarah Schmid

Sarah is the editor of Xconomy Detroit. She joins Xconomy after working in Communications for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the state's business development office, and the Michigan House of Representatives. She's an award-winning journalist who cut her teeth at the small but fiercely muckraking Missoula Independent, where she carved out a beat covering issues critical to Native American people living in the state of Montana. Her reporting resulted in institutional changes that forced local school districts to better serve Native students. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Montana and proudly calls Detroit "the most fascinating city I've ever lived in."

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Plymouth Venture Partners Invests in InContext Solutions

Plymouth Venture Partners Fund II, the Ann Arbor, MI-based growth-stage investment fund, announced last month that it led a Series C round for the Chicago-based InContext Solutions. The total value... Read more »
ePrize Continues Its Mobile Growth With Mozes Acquisition

The Pleasant Ridge, MI-based interactive promotions company ePrize has announced its second major acquisition in 12 months, a move that represents the next big step in its plan to ramp up... Read more »
KarmaCRM: Building Sales Software for Lean Startups

It’s not often that, here in Detroit, I get an e-mail from a tech player in Boston urging me to check out a new company in my neck of the woods,... Read more »
Notes From the Auto Show: Smarter, Sexier, More Fun

I feel a little silly admitting this, but the word that kept echoing in my head as I walked around this year’s installment of the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS)... Read more »
Mobile Madness Motor City: The Photos

Xconomy held its first Mobile Madness event in Detroit on Thursday afternoon. We had a top-notch group of speakers, fantastic sponsors and hosts, and, most importantly, an off-the-charts group of attendees.... Read more »
Mobile Madness Motor City: Highlights and Takeaways

Startup founders, industry leaders, investors, and a high number of young, engaged Detroiters crowded into the auditorium at the Compuware Building downtown last Thursday for Mobile Madness Motor City, Xconomy’s first... Read more »
U-M’s Frankel Fund Has First Exit, Leads Fusion Coolant’s Series A

University of Michigan’s student-led Frankel Commercialization Fund, in collaboration with the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, announced this week that Arbor Photonics, one of the fund’s portfolio... Read more »
Four Startups Receive Michigan Microloan Fund Awards

The Michigan Microloan Fund Program announced last week that it has awarded a combined $156,000 in funding to four Michigan startups. The early-stage companies received the microloans to support their commercialization... Read more »
See You Tomorrow at Mobile Madness Motor City

We’re gearing up for Mobile Madness Motor City, Xconomy’s first mobile event in Detroit.

As the mobile tech sector continues to heat up, how will devices and applications be more... Read more »
$2.3 Million DOE Grant Will Support MBI, Novozymes Partnership

MBI International, the Lansing, MI-based subsidiary of Michigan State University that helps companies scale up bio-based tech endeavors, has partnered with Novozymes to win a $2.3 million U.S. Department of Energy... Read more »
Mobile Madness Motor City: WiTricity to Demo a Future Without Wires

Mobile Madness Motor City, Xconomy’s first mobile event in Detroit, will be packed with innovators, business leaders, technologists, and app developers. It will also have something you don’t often... Read more »
Mobile Madness Motor City: Ford’s Connelly Will Talk Trends

We’re less than a week away from Xconomy’s first major event in Detroit, Mobile Madness Motor City. The half-day forum is packed with some of southeast Michigan’s top technology innovators tackling... Read more »
Marxent Labs’ App Transforms Print Catalogs Into eCommerce Experience

Marxent Labs, the Detroit Venture Partners-backed startup developing augmented reality technology, has launched a new app with Ballard Designs that allows consumers to use their smartphones to transform print catalogs into... Read more »
Backed by $1M from Compuware, Glocal Offers Location-Based News Video Site

Aaron Hodai and Lincoln Cavalieri were high school buddies, lacrosse stars for Detroit Country Day who later went on to college at Syracuse (Lincoln) and the University of Michigan (Aaron). They... Read more »
Sastry, Startup Showcase Added to Mobile Madness Motor City Lineup

Ann Marie Sastry, president and CEO of the advanced battery startup Sakti3, is a giant in her field. She’s been working for more than a decade on the technology behind... Read more »
jacAPPS Will Provide Tech Support to New Ford Developer Program

Now that we’re a little over a week away from Mobile Madness Motor City, we wanted to highlight one of the event’s panelists, Paul Jacobs.

Jacobs is the CEO and... Read more »
Livio Connect Adds Freemium Service for App Developers

The Ferndale, MI-based startup Livio announced today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that its Livio Connect API for integrating smartphone apps with vehicle hardware systems will now be... Read more »
Mayleben Ends Short-Lived Retirement to Lead Esperion

Remember a few weeks ago when we wrote about Tim Mayleben’s retirement from Aastrom? Well, it wasn’t a retirement for good: Mayleben has a new gig as the CEO of... Read more »
Mobile Madness Motor City: Check Out the Agenda for our Jan. 17 Forum

Now that the hustle and bustle of the holidays is over, we’re getting pretty excited for Mobile Madness Motor City, Xconomy’s inaugural mobile event in Detroit. The half-day forum is... Read more »
MI Innovators: Compete in DARPA’s $4M Vehicle Design Challenges

Seeking to engage innovators outside of the traditional defense sector, the federal government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently launched the Fast, Adaptable, Next-Generation Ground Vehicle (FANG) Challenges, a military... Read more »

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