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    <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: InvestMichigan! Program co-managers Beringea and Credit Suisse's Customized Fund Investment Group announce the $180 million Michigan Growth Capital Partners II, L.P.</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Beringea and the Credit Suisse Customized Fund Investment Group (&ldquo;CFIG&rdquo;) have launched Michigan Growth Capital Partners II, L.P. (&ldquo;MGCP II&rdquo;), a $180 million fund dedicated to providing growth equity to Michigan companies.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 02:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: Beringea invests in Abe's Market, an online retailer for natural products</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Beringea, Michigan&rsquo;s largest and most active venture and expansion-stage capital investor, has invested in Abe&rsquo;s Market, the online destination for discovering and experiencing natural and organic products.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: Liberty Dialysis Completes Fresenius Deal</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Liberty Dialysis Holdings Inc. has completed its merger with Fresenius Medical Care, the company announced Wednesday. KRG Capital Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm, is the primary investor in Liberty, along with co-investor Bain Capital Ventures. Based in Mercer Island, Wash., Liberty provides dialysis services for patients who have been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease or end stage renal disease.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: Beringea invests $2.5 million in Ann Arbor-based Molecular Imaging, Inc.</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Beringea, Michigan&rsquo;s largest and most active venture and expansion-stage capital investor, has invested $2.5 million in Ann Arbor-based Molecular Imaging, Inc.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: LED Innovator Relume Technologies Closes $8.0 million Financing Round</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Relume Technologies, a leading manufacturer of light-emitting diode (LED) products and smart grid control systems for outdoor lighting applications, has closed its $8.0 million Series D financing round. Farmington Hills-based Beringea, which led the round, invested $3.2 million. San Jose, Calif.-based Western Technology Investment and other existing investors comprised the remainder of the round.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: Beringea Invests in Healthcare IT Company Intervention Insights</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Beringea, Michigan&rsquo;s largest and most active venture and expansion-stage capital investor, has invested in Intervention Insights, a Grand Rapids-based healthcare information technology company which helps community oncologists develop individualized patient treatment plans.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: BD Completes Acquisition of Accuri Cytometers, Inc.</title>
      <description><![CDATA[BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global technology company, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Accuri Cytometers, Inc., an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company that develops and manufactures personal flow cytometers for researchers.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: BD Announces Agreement to Acquire Accuri Cytometers, Inc.</title>
      <description><![CDATA[BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, announced today that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Accuri Cytometers, Inc., an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company that develops and manufactures personal flow cytometers for researchers.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: Beringea Invests in Cleantech Company ReCellular</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Beringea, Michigan&rsquo;s largest venture capital firm, has invested in ReCellular, a Dexter, Mich.-based e-waste company specializing in the collection, reuse and recycling of used personal electronics, particularly mobile phones.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: Beringea Invests in Consumer Electronics Company mophie</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Beringea, Michigan&rsquo;s largest venture capital firm, has invested in mophie, a Paw Paw, Mich.-based designer and manufacturer of electronic accessories for smart phones and other mobile intelligent devices.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: Beringea Invests in Digital Audio Specialist Livio Radio</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Beringea, Michigan&rsquo;s largest venture capital firm has invested in Ferndale, Mich.-based Livio Radio, a leading developer of Internet radio devices and smartphone applications.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: Beringea Invests in Karmanos Cancer Institute Spinoff Delphinus Medical Technologies</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Beringea, Michigan&rsquo;s largest venture capital firm, has invested in Delphinus Medical Technologies, a spinoff from the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit and developer of SoftVue, an alternative to mammography for breast cancer detection, risk evaluation and treatment monitoring.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: Beringea Invests $6 Million in Telemedicine Robotics Specialist InTouch Health</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Beringea, Michigan&rsquo;s largest venture capital firm, has invested $6 million in Remote Presence (RP) total telemedicine solutions provider, InTouch Health&reg;.  The investment, which is part of a $10 million Series D financing round, will fund the opening of an engineering research and development center in Michigan, as well as further fuel the company&rsquo;s product development, sales and marketing efforts and international expansion.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: Beringea Invests in Advanced Battery Developer Sakti3</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Beringea, Michigan&rsquo;s largest venture capital firm, has invested in Sakti3, Inc., an Ann Arbor-based developer of next-generation lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and portable electronics. ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: Beringea Invests in LED Lighting and Smart Grid Specialist Relume Technologies</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Beringea, Michigan&rsquo;s largest venture capital firm, has invested in Oxford, Mich.-based Relume Technologies, a leading manufacturer of light-emitting diode (LED) products and smart grid control systems for outdoor lighting applications.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: InvestMichigan! Growth Capital Fund makes investment in Bloomfield Hills EMR-provider gloStream, Inc.</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Beringea and members of gloStream&rsquo;s Executive Management Team co-led the company&rsquo;s $7.5 million series B financing round]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Oral care investment draws smiles</title>
      <description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s all too easy, amid news of 1,600 more layoffs at General Motors and the growing anxiety over the fate of Chrysler, to lose track of good economic news when it happens in Michigan.]]></description>
      <guid>http://freep.com/article/20090421/COL06/904210384/1081/Oral+care+investment+draws+smiles</guid>      
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: Beringea Invests in Grand Rapids, Mich.-Based Ranir, LLC</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Beringea, co-manager of the InvestMichigan! Growth Capital Fund (IMGCF), announced a $4 million investment in Ranir, LLC, a leading manufacturer of  consumer oral care products. IMGCF&rsquo;s participation in Grand Rapids-based Ranir&rsquo;s recent equity funding round helped finance the acquisition of the Plackers&copy; brand  product line, increasing the Company&rsquo;s customer base and expanding its size and scope.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>State of Investment</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Top corporate leaders are lending their support to a new state initiative designed to nurture and grow emerging Michigan businesses]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 1 Mar 2009 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: InvestMichigan! Growth Capital Fund Makes Investment in Marquette, Mich.-Based Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc.</title>
      <description><![CDATA[InvestMichigan! Growth Capital Fund (IMGCF), co-managed by Beringea and Credit Suisse&rsquo;s Customized Fund Investment Group, today announced a $5 million investment in one of the state&rsquo;s leading manufacturing sectors.  The IMGCF&rsquo;s participation in Pioneer Surgical Technology&rsquo;s $15 million Series B Financing will help fund the human clinical trials of the NuBac(tm) Nucleus Replacement Device for the spine, which recently received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to proceed to an investigational pivotal study.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: InvestMichigan! Makes Initial Investments</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Clean technology firms become part of InvestMichigan! portfolio]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cutting-edge investments under way</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Detroit Free Press, Think of InvestMichigan as one small, bright ray of light in these dark days. The comeback has to start somewhere.]]></description>
      <guid>http://freep.com/article/20081116/COL06/811160460/1019/BUSINESS06</guid>      
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: Granholm Announces InvestMichigan!</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Governor Granholm announces program to invest in Michigan businesses and create jobs]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>PRESS RELEASE: Governor Granholm Announces Powerful New Tool to Attract Jobs</title>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.investmichiganfund.com/growth/press/Gov_invest_michigan.pdf">Governor Granholm Announces Powerful New Tool to Attract Jobs</a> (PDF) January 31, 2008]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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