Celebrating our One Year Anniversary, An opportunity to Connect with our Clients and Support our Mission!
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- November 3, 2020
In October, we celebrated our One Year Anniversary since taking possession of our new Accelerator facility. In just one year we have made tremendous progress i helping our clients launch new products, attract investment, identify local suppliers, scale and grow right here in Michigan. Our client metrics speak for themselves. Of the 40 clients we support with deep level engagements, below is the aggregated economic development metrics (last 12 months.)
- # of Total Employees: 587
- Average Salary of Employees: $55
- # of Jobs Retained: 421
- Annual Revenue: $31.3M
- Capital Raised: $207.3M
- # of Products Commercialized: 143
- # of Patents Issued: 106
- # of Agreements: 57
(licensing, joint venture & development, commercial) - # of Michigan Contract Suppliers: 194
- Amount in Michigan Contracted Services: $18.8M
The last metric I am particularly proud of and need to further recognize. Centrepolis is focused on supporting hardware, physical products and manufacturing technologies. As we help our clients commercialize products, we are not only helping them grow but too the manufacturing supply chain that supports their design, engineering, prototyping, testing, and production. This is a deliberate focus of our service and support!
On October 2, National Manufacturing Day, we held a Virtual Pitch Event, simulcast with our partner Lean Rocket Lab (supported by EGLE, MEDC, PMBC, Automation Alley, Hurst Foundation, Consumers Energy and Jaffe Law). We recognized ten best in class companies with cleantech and manufacturing innovations. If you are interested in connecting with any of the pitch companies, as a customer, strategic channel partner, supplier, investor or employer, please take a moment to complete our event questionnaire and we will help make the connection! If you missed the event, click here for the full recording.
Centrepolis is recognizing more of our clients with our Inaugural Client Awards. We are asking our friends and extended network to vote from amongst nominated clients for the following awards for:
- Best Hardware Product Commercialized
- Best Manufacturing Technology
- Best Cleantech Company
- Best COVID Response
- Best COVID Business Pivot
Vote here through December 1. Awards will be announced during a live webinar scheduled for December 16, 9:00-10:00am. Register here.
Support our Mission
As we are approach the holiday season, we are also asking our friends to support our mission. We currently have more demand for our services than we have supply of time from our staff. If you like what we are doing and believe in our mantra…to enable those with ideas for physical products to create and recognize their dreams, to help them build businesses, make things and put people to work right here in Michigan…we ask you to give whatever you can to support our Make it in Michigan initiative. Many thanks for your support!