Michigan Angel Fund

Michigan Angel Fund specializes in investments in angel deals. The fund does not invest in gaming or real estate related ventures. It prefers investing in early stage start-ups that are at or near revenue. The fund seeks to invest in IT, cleantech, advance manufacturing, and health care. It invests in Michigan companies only. The fund invests between $0.2 million to $2 million in its companies. It prefers investing in companies requiring less than $2 million to reach break-even or sustainability.

Mike Flanagan

MD

Joseph (Skip) Simms

Managing Partner

29 past transactions

Arborlight

Venture Round in 2015
Arborlight Inc. manufactures illumination solutions for applications ranging from architectural and medical lighting to automotive displays and scientific apparatus. It offers human centric architectural lighting, such as light emitting diode (LED) components, optics, and embedded systems; and smartphone controlled LED skylights. The company serves automotive and scientific instrumentation industries, and furniture manufacturers. Arborlight was founded in 2010 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Epsilon Imaging

Series B in 2014
As a provider of workflow enhancing visualization and analysis solutions for cardiology, Epsilon Imaging is transforming cardiac diagnostic workflow with a vendor neutral suite of software applications for echocardiography. EchoInsight assists clinicians with innovative visualization and analysis technologies that enhance, standardize, and streamline analysis, interpretation and trending with echo. Epsilon Imaging offers premier customer support with EchoInsight. The Epsilon Imaging Customer Support Team is comprised of expert technical and clinical specialists that offer rapid and proactive service and training. Echocardiography strain-imaging program consultation is also available. Epsilon Imaging strives to achieve the highest level of satisfaction by partnering with customers to improve efficiency and standardization within their echo programs.

AdAdapted, Inc.

Series A in 2020
AdAdapted, Inc. provides a mobile advertising platform for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands. It offers AdAdapted that enables CPG brands to directly target their primary consumers in the apps they use to plan and shop by placing CPG brands in front of consumers with native, non-disruptive ads at the exact moment of decision-making, targeting consumers and getting products on digital shopping lists. The company’s AdAdapted platform tracks what consumers add to their list revealing category and product preferences, shopping tendencies, planning habits, and more. It serves CPG and agencies, and retailers. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Naveego

Seed Round in 2019
Naveego is headquartered in Traverse City, Michigan, and has been delivering Master DataManagement, Data Integration, and Business Intelligence solutions.They believe companies perform best when they are able to use best-of-breed applications for each function of their business. We see a world where data moves freely between these applications, regardless of where it lives. By creating this ecosystem of data, a company is able to provide clean and trustworthy information to its users, when and where they need it

Give and Take

Seed Round in 2019
Give and Take technology allows employees to collaborate and share knowledge in order to improve engagement, efficiency, and productivity. Give and Take takes the concepts of generalized reciprocity and social capital made famous in Wharton professor Adam Grant’s bestselling Give and Take and delivers it to enterprises in an accessible, scalable, measurable platform called Givitas. By fostering a giving culture, companies of all sizes drive positive business outcomes like increased employee efficiency, productivity, loyalty, and engagement. Give and Take is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan and online at www.giveandtakeinc.com.

Plinqit

Seed Round in 2018
Plinqit develops a SaaS platform that allows banks to offer a goal based, micro-savings account. The company's solution offers onboarding and administration of Plinqit accounts, analytics across all Plinqit users and activity, and publishing tools to provide content and cross sell. Plinqit was founded in 2015 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Plinqit operates as a subsidiary of HT Mobile Apps, LLC.

STKR.IT, Inc.

Seed Round in 2013
STKR.IT, Inc. operates a cloud based platform for users to access and share their files using the access code for files. IT also provides the cloud environment on iOS and android platforms. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

foodjunky.com

Seed Round in 2016
Foodjunky is an online platform that allows people in small or large groups to order food from restaurants. It was founded in 2011 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Genomenon, Inc.

Series B in 2022
Genomenon, Inc. develops a suite of software tools to prioritize data points for decision-making in genetic diagnoses and discoveries. The company offers GENOMENON, a software solution that allows rapid, automated, and accurate analysis of next-generation sequencing data to speed up discovery work and diagnosis. Its diagnostic and discovery tools enable physicians and researchers to identify disease-causing variants from genomic-sequencing datasets. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Eco-Fueling

Seed Round in 2014
Eco-Fueling, a combustion optimization company, develops and delivers technology that improves fuel consumption and emissions for diesel engines. It provides ECO Injection System, which injects E85 directly into the intake manifold airflow of a diesel engine for a homogeneous burn of the diesel fuel. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Saline, Michigan.

KUHMUTE Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
KUHMUTE was created to help cities and Mobility Service Providers serve communities to the best of their abilities. They enable shared fleets to be more organized and reliably charged, eliminiating dreaded scooter clutter from the streets. Their hubs are proudly designed and manufactured in Flint, MI. Just like how escooters and ebikes are shared, their charging infrastructure is also shared to allow for accessible power for escooters, ebikes, eskateboards and autonomous delivery robots. Coming to a city near you!

Larky

Series A in 2014
Larky is a mobile and web platform that helps organizations connect with their audiences at the right time and place. Clients include banks, credit unions, health insurance providers, employers, universities and more. Larky serves clients in 20 US states and Canada.

Genomenon, Inc.

Series A in 2021
Genomenon, Inc. develops a suite of software tools to prioritize data points for decision-making in genetic diagnoses and discoveries. The company offers GENOMENON, a software solution that allows rapid, automated, and accurate analysis of next-generation sequencing data to speed up discovery work and diagnosis. Its diagnostic and discovery tools enable physicians and researchers to identify disease-causing variants from genomic-sequencing datasets. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Biophotonic Solutions Inc. develops and manufactures pulse shapers for ultrafast lasers. Its products include femtoAdaptiv, an ultra-broadband laser oscillator; MIIPS Box, a pulse shaping instrument; femtoJock, a pulse shaping system to perform spectral resolution, and pulse measurement and compression; femtoFit, a phase-only pulse shaper for embedding and other OEM applications; ultrathin SHG crystal MCUO-SHG products; femtoPulse Master, a simulation software that calculates in frequency and time domains; and MIIPS 2.0, a software that allows user to obtain interferometric and non-interferometric frequency resolved autocorrelations with attosecond precision and without moving parts. The company provides its products for biomedical imaging, two-photon microscopy, and dispersion measurements on dielectric mirrors applications, as well as for material processing, micro machining, pulse compression, surgical applications, proteomic and metabolomic analysis, coherent laser control, time-resolved measurements, filamentation studies, attosecond sciences, THz spectroscopy, and high harmonic generation applications. It offers its products through distribution contracts with laser companies in the United States and internationally. Biophotonic Solutions Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in East Lansing, Michigan.

Matterhorn

Series A in 2017
Court Innovations, a Software-as-a-Service company, develops an online case resolution platform. It offers Matterhorn, an online platform that enables users to select their court, search for case, check the status, get updates, and resolve it online. Court Innovations' platform also allows courts to handle many high-volume infractions online that save citizens and courts time and money, enables decision-makers to resolve cases equitably, and empowers defendants to work with the court to resolve minor violations informally and at a convenient time. It serves customers in Michigan and Ohio. J.J. Prescott founded Court Innovations in 2014. It has its headquarters in Ann Arbor in Michigan.

Shoulder Innovations, Inc.

Venture Round in 2020
Shoulder Innovations, Inc. designs and manufactures orthopedic solutions for shoulder replacement surgery. It offers Total Shoulder Replacement System, a glenoid implant to reconstruct deficient bone. The company also provides instrumentation required to implant the Shoulder Innovations Total Shoulder System. It sells its products through distribution partners in the United States. Shoulder Innovations, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Holland, Michigan.
Shoulder Innovations, Inc. designs and manufactures orthopedic solutions for shoulder replacement surgery. It offers Total Shoulder Replacement System, a glenoid implant to reconstruct deficient bone. The company also provides instrumentation required to implant the Shoulder Innovations Total Shoulder System. It sells its products through distribution partners in the United States. Shoulder Innovations, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Holland, Michigan.

JOOL Health

Seed Round in 2017
Kumanu helps people and organizations build authentic connections to deeper purpose through advanced science and technology. It is formerly known as JOOL Health, builds stronger organizations and bigger lives by creating better alignment with purpose. We fuse advanced machine learning, leading behavior change science, elegant digital experience design, and real-time predictive decision support to create positive change that’s both scalable and enduring. It’s all integrated into their PurposeCloud, the first purpose activation platform. The platform offers a beautiful, simple, and purposeful app for employees, a real-time analytics dashboard for organizations designed to integrate your corporate, people and wellbeing strategies, and a powerful insights engine that connects, predicts and contextualizes the data.

VNN, Inc.

Series A in 2014
VNN is the largest and fastest growing high school sports marketing platform in America. As the exclusive web/mobile platform for over 7million passionate fans across 40+ states (adding 8,000 fans daily), VNN is rapidly aggregating the fragmented, multi-billion dollar high school sports market onto an intelligent platform that transforms the consumer experience of high school sports.

Ocuphire Pharma

Seed Round in 2019
Ocuphire Pharma is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to the development and commercialization of therapies to treat patients with a variety of ophthalmic disorders. We are currently focused on providing a novel once-daily eye drop treatment option, Nyxol®, to treat multiple front-of-the-eye disorders, including night vision disturbances, glaucoma, pharmacologically-induced mydriasis, and presbyopia. Nyxol eye drops are an investigational 505(b)(2) drug candidate in late-stage clinical development with over a decade of safety and efficacy data from Phase 1 and 2 trials. Part of our strategy is to explore opportunities to acquire additional ophthalmic assets for both the front and the back of the eyes, and to seek strategic partners for global commercialization.

ContentOro

Seed Round in 2015
ContentOro provides the number one need in digital marketing today – content – in a new and unique way. Proprietary software converts millions of pages of text and images from published books into high-quality pieces of fresh and relevant content that can quickly and easily be searched, found, and added to any website to provide information and SEO benefits. This on-demand access to the world’s largest repository of professionally written content positions ContentOro to change the way digital marketers and brands acquire content for marketing.

Groundspeed Analytics

Series A in 2017
Groundspeed Analytics, Inc. (Groundspeed) accelerates commercial insurance performance with the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence. The Groundspeed platform automatically turns files like submissions, loss runs, exposure schedules and policy documents into actionable information, empowering users to lower costs, identify profitable pools of risk and drive top-line growth.
Shoulder Innovations, Inc. designs and manufactures orthopedic solutions for shoulder replacement surgery. It offers Total Shoulder Replacement System, a glenoid implant to reconstruct deficient bone. The company also provides instrumentation required to implant the Shoulder Innovations Total Shoulder System. It sells its products through distribution partners in the United States. Shoulder Innovations, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Holland, Michigan.

Avegant Corp.

Venture Round in 2013
Avegant is a technology company developing next-generation display technology to enable previously impossible augmented reality experiences. The company uses its deep scientific understanding of human sight and head-mounted display ergonomics together with its consumer electronics manufacturing experience to develop displays that enable realistic AR experiences for consumers. Avegant was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Belmont, California.

VNN, Inc.

Venture Round in 2015
VNN is the largest and fastest growing high school sports marketing platform in America. As the exclusive web/mobile platform for over 7million passionate fans across 40+ states (adding 8,000 fans daily), VNN is rapidly aggregating the fragmented, multi-billion dollar high school sports market onto an intelligent platform that transforms the consumer experience of high school sports.

Genomenon, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Genomenon, Inc. develops a suite of software tools to prioritize data points for decision-making in genetic diagnoses and discoveries. The company offers GENOMENON, a software solution that allows rapid, automated, and accurate analysis of next-generation sequencing data to speed up discovery work and diagnosis. Its diagnostic and discovery tools enable physicians and researchers to identify disease-causing variants from genomic-sequencing datasets. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

ContentOro

Convertible Note in 2016
ContentOro provides the number one need in digital marketing today – content – in a new and unique way. Proprietary software converts millions of pages of text and images from published books into high-quality pieces of fresh and relevant content that can quickly and easily be searched, found, and added to any website to provide information and SEO benefits. This on-demand access to the world’s largest repository of professionally written content positions ContentOro to change the way digital marketers and brands acquire content for marketing.