A panel of experts will discuss how founders can find the right investors to help their company grow considering all aspects of the founder-funder relationship.

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 Many entrepreneurial CEOs/ Founders start with a great idea, full of passion and possibility, but as the company grows in people and revenue the chaos begins and what once was passion can become a burden. Our panel of experts will discuss strategies for helping early stage companies manage the chaos, focus on what’s important, and avoid burnout.

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Mark Russell is Co-Founder & CEO of CatalystXL, a Michigan company offering 
Cardware, an all-in-one platform that brings together communications, content, and data into a single, intuitive, custom-branded experience. Cardware addresses a fundamental problem that organizations are increasingly facing – the inefficiency of using multiple channels, platforms, tools, and applications, to communicate, interact, and share with colleagues, customers, partners, and suppliers. Cardware creates engaging and easy-to-use experiences, scalable to your company and your industry using a powerful flashcard format to deliver dynamic, re

Our first in-person Forum in two years features an engaging speaker and great networking opportunities.

Derrick Redding, CEO. Betterfrost’s solution defrosts and defogs Electric Vehicles’ windshields with 20 times less power than current technology and extends the range of an EV by 38 km in winter.  The system provides high-voltage, pulsed power to the conductive layer inside of windshields. and is based on decades of research at the Dartmouth Ice lab. Betterfrost’s patented system provides only the minimal amount of heat necessary to reach the correct penetration depth to melt the boundary layer of ice for easy removal.