Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund

The Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund (ZLCF) is a pre-seed investment fund established to identify and accelerate the commercialization of ideas generated within the South-East Michigan area.

Scott Collins

VP of portfolio management

5 past transactions

Neurable

Series A in 2018
Neurable is a neurotechnology company specializing in developing AI-powered tools for brain signal translation and brain-computer interface technology. Utilizing patented signal processing, developed through research across labs and institutions, and advanced by a scientific and expert product team, its platform enables high-performance brain-computer interface in everyday devices.

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.

PHASIQ

Venture Round in 2015
Founded in 2012, PHASIQ enables efficient, accurate, and inexpensive measurement of multiple health-indicator proteins via phase-separated droplets. Their advantage is the ability to multiplex proteins not possible to measure simultaneously by other methods.

Reveal Design Automation

Seed Round in 2015
Reveal Design Automation is an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) start-up developing software tools to address a critical challenge in the semiconductor chip design process: formal verification of complex chip designs. With fully automated solutions enabling highly scalable Architecture Validation, formal verification runs that take days with competing solutions can now be completed in hours with Reveal. Where a typical verification cycle for a new chip design requires dozens to hundreds of such verification runs, Reveal can save chip designers millions of dollars in verification expense, reduce time-to-market by months, and significantly improve confidence in chip design correctness.

AdAdapted

Seed Round in 2014
AdAdapted is a digital engagement and insights platform for CPG brands and agencies. Its platform offers CPG brands the ability to directly target their primary consumers in the apps they use to plan and shop. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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