Automation Alley

A growing number of entrepreneurs are starting their own businesses in Southeast Michigan. New technologies are creating new business opportunities on the Internet, mobile phones, in consumer products, and in informed services.

Founding your own, high growth technology company can be challenging; financing it and successfully bringing a product to market requires determination, dedication and the will to forge ahead.

Because founding a successful high-tech company is so different than working for a large company, many entrepreneurs are unfamiliar with the proper steps that are needed to become successful.

Below, find information and resources relating to funding. 

Start-Up
Angel and VC Funding
SBA Funding
SBIR Funding
State of Michigan's 21st 
Century Jobs Fund

Early Stage
Credit Insurance
Innovative Commercial Financing
Leasing
VC Funding

Established Stage
Angel and VC Funding
SBIR Funding
Sub Debt Funding
Supply Chain Finance Solution: Early Pay

Additional Resources:
Entrepreneur's Dictionary

To view the Finance Subcommittee's Business Solution Series "Show Me the Money for My New Business" PowerPoint, click here.

To view the PowerPoint from "Finding Capital Between Start-Up and Profit: Financing for Early Stage Entrepreneurs," click here.

To view the PowerPoint from "Growing, Moving, Expanding: Choices for Funding a Mature Company," click here.