Sponsors
Talented, successful, and generous, these organizations shared the skills and resources that help make Momentum possible. Please join us in thanking them by learning more about their impact on business & innovation in the midwest.
- aimWest
- aimWest connects local professionals to promote the growth of the interactive marketing and technology industries in West Michigan.
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- Grand Valley State University, Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- The Center serves to promote, preserve, influence, and impact students, faculty, and the community through quality academic research, resource management, and information services in the field of entrepreneurship.
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- Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center
- The Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center offers support in the areas of counsel, training and research.
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- Steelcase
- Steelcase delivers a comprehensive portfolio of workplace products, furnishings and services, inspired by nearly 100 years of insight gained from serving the world’s leading organizations.
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- The Factory
- The Factory is a community office focused on getting work done, with cool people in an awesome setting.
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- The Grand Angels
- The Grand Angels are committed to utilizing their financial, intellectual and networking capital to foster the success of growing companies and to enhance the economic development of West Michigan.
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- Atomic Object
- Atomic Object builds custom software to meet unique product development and business process needs. It has a consistent track record of providing contract software that’s on time, on budget, and of extraordinary quality.
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- Warner, Norcross & Judd
- For 10 years, Disher Design and Development has been building innovative products and continually surpassing the expectations of its client partners.
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- Performance Strategies Group
- Since 1990, PSG has helped organizations find ways to align the mental energy of their team to accomplish business objectives.
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- Microsoft
- Microsoft is motivated and inspired every day by how customers use its software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them.
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- Elevator Up
- Elevator Up focuses on small to medium businesses that are developing, maintaining and growing web applications, with the goal of creating a well-rounded team that starts and ends together.
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- Lakeshore Advantage
- Lakeshore Advantage provides economic development services in the Holland, Zeeland and Saugatuck area. It has the resources to help your business launch, expand or relocate to the shores of West Michigan.
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- Seferth PR
- Founded in 1984, Seyferth PR has built its reputation as one of the Midwest’s leading public relations firms. The firm’s business reaches throughout the state and well beyond its borders.
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- AgileZen
- AgileZen is a simple, flexible, and cost-effective way to manage your work. With an easy-to-use web interface, and by drawing on ideas from lean manufacturing, we help you stay organized, focused, and on target.
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- GLEQ
- The Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest aspires to be an engine for the formation of new, high-growth companies in Michigan.
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- Pomegranate Studios
- Pomegranate Studios is a business incubator focusing on web-enabled business, social entrepreneurship and empowering individual voices through technology. Located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, it is the brainchild of Rick DeVos and the source of other successful projects including ArtPrize, Momentum, Spout.com, and now, 5x5 Night.
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- Collective Idea
- We are a small, agile software-development team driven to find solutions beyond code. Our code is great, and we’ll never denigrate it, but we understand code is a tactic toward a solution rather than a solution in itself. End result: we make our clients more productive and their processes more efficient.
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- RPM Ventures
- RPM, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and founded in 2000, is an early-stage venture capital firm with a unique investing strategy and core platform that deliver repeatable, consistent value to our portfolio companies and our investors.
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- Mighty
- a Grand Rapids, Michigan web design and development company specializing in ExpressionEngine content management systems.
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- A2Geeks
- Our mission: To make Ann Arbor a better place for geeks to live and work through tech culture and community
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- A2 New Tech
- The Ann Arbor New Tech meetup welcomes members from any school, sector, or industry function (e.g. entrepreneurs, technologists, investors, lawyers, marketers, students, bloggers, etc.) interested in local high-tech startups. We seek to foster tech entrepreneurship by facilitating communication, providing access to resources, and creating community. Our members meet every few weeks to participate in demo events, educational panel and speaker events, unconferences, and happy hours.
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- Startup West Michigan
- Start-up West Michigan is a community of innovators, developers, investors, professionals, and business leaders who have a passion for entrepreneurship and new technology. We seek to further cultivate the West Michigan start-up culture by providing our members a place to connect and learn about all of the exciting opportunities for entrepreneurs in our region.
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- Chicago Lean Startup Circle
- Lean startup is a collection of techniques built around maximizing validated customer learning thought fast Build/Measure/Learn iteration loops. We're a group of Chicago area entrepreneurs taking lean startup and customer development techniques to practice in our startups. We're ready to talk implementation and share data from our experiments.
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- Pathfinder Development
- For over a decade, Pathfinder has been delivering software applications that are easy to use, providing clients with the technology to enable business breakthroughs and competitive advantage.
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- GRid70
- Grand Rapids innovation and design at 70 Ionia, best known as GRid70, is one of only a few design hubs in the world. Bringing together creative talent from four major corporations – Meijer, Amway, Steelcase, and Wolverine World Wide, Grid70 allows for innovation, ideation, and cross-pollination. It’s an environment that stimulates out-of-the-box thinking, every day.
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- Bizdom U
- Bizdom U provides comprehensive, real-world training, mentorship, and support for entrepreneurs who have a burning passion and determination to build a growth-oriented, Detroit-based or Cleveland-based business
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- University of Michigan’s Center for Entrepreneurship
- The Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE) is a Michigan Engineering venture that empowers students, faculty and staff to pursue entrepreneurial achievements that improve people’s lives, drive the economy and help innovators bridge the gap between inventor and the business that is enabled by these breakthroughs.
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- Incub8
- Incuba8 (pronounced “Incubate”) is all about moving forward ideas, community, startups, businesses, products, and events. Incuba8 is about cultivating action to create a positive impact. It’s about mobilizing ideas and concepts with the best design and support possible. Incuba8 is about making ideas reality.
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- Hope Entrepreneurial Initiative (HEI)
- Fueled by a desire to “create” entrepreneurial leaders from a servant leader perspective, CFL is developing the Hope Entrepreneurship Initiative. HEI seeks to help students not only to learn how to be servant leaders, team-builders, and process-thinkers through entrepreneurship, but also how to make a positive difference by creating and taking ideas to market; it also seeks to help students determine whether the life of the entrepreneur is their "calling."
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- MiTechNews
- Mitechnews.Com is a web portal site that features stories, information and events listings about Michigan technology companies and entrepreneurs. Mitechnews.Com is owned by Michigan News Network, a corporation based in Grand Rapids, MI.
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- Michigan Lean Consortium
- The Michigan Lean Consortium is a diverse network of knowledgeable lean professionals who come together to share innovative practices. The organization aims to create a lean culture in Michigan to ensure sustainable competitive advantage, which could translate into healthier businesses that offer more job opportunities leading to economic growth in the state.
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- Ann Arbor Spark
- Ann Arbor SPARK will be the driving force in establishing the Ann Arbor Region as a desired place for business expansion and location by identifying and meeting the needs of business at every stage, from those that are established to those working to successfully commercialize innovations.
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- Software GR
- Founded by Atomic Object in the fall of 2003, SoftwareGR is a 501c6 non-profit trade association dedicated to improving the competitiveness of Michigan’s software development community. We are interested in all aspects of software, from design and development, to testing and user experience.
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- Mutually Human
- Mutually Human is an expert custom software strategy and design consultancy specializing in mobile and web based products and services.
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- Square One Design
- Design changes things. Businesses. Markets. Lives. That’s what we do at Square One Design. We make a difference. It’s equal parts intuition, research, hard work and sometimes just a little magic. Take a look at our work, studio, blog and people. If you like what you see, let’s talk.
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- Detroit Venture Partners
- We’re a Detroit-based Venture Capital firm on a crazed mission. We back seed and early-stage technology companies who have a purpose. Our purpose is to help rebuild the Detroit area through entrepreneurial fire. We view business building as a palate for creative expression and an opportunity to make a difference and change the world. If not, why bother?
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- Microsoft BizSpark
- Microsoft® BizSpark™ is a global program that helps software startups succeed by giving them access to Microsoft software development tools, connecting them with key industry players, including investors, and providing marketing visibility to help entrepreneurs starting a business.
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- Zipments
- Make money or save money getting items across town. Moving packages is expensive. At Zipments.com, you can hand select couriers from a ready-to-work virtual workforce to deliver your items (packages, documents, food, dry cleaning), at a fraction of the cost.
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- MIller Johnson
- Our practice areas have evolved over the past 50 years in response to client need and demand. Today, our team of attorneys and staff provide a wide array of legal services in business and corporate matters, employment and labor law, litigation, and personal legal matters.
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