Sarah Schmid Stevenson
Sarah is the editor of Xconomy Detroit/Ann Arbor. She joins Xconomy after working in Communications for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the state's business development office, and the Michigan House of Representatives. She's an award-winning journalist who cut her teeth at the small but fiercely muckraking Missoula Independent, where she carved out a beat covering issues critical to Native American people living in the state of Montana. Her reporting resulted in institutional changes that forced local school districts to better serve Native students. She holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Montana and proudly calls Detroit "the most fascinating city I've ever lived in."
Recent posts
Successful startup founders who are also humble and down-to-earth are a rare breed in the tech industry. But Duo Security co-founder and former CEO Dug Song is a mensch in every... Read more »
Ford Motor Company is undergoing a transformation from nuts-and-bolts automaker to something that more closely resembles a tech company, and this week, the company offered press tours of its $45 million... Read more »
Asthma is the third-ranking cause of hospitalization for children under 15 years of age in the U.S., and it’s the leading cause of missed school among children ages 5 to 17.... Read more »
High Alpha, the Indianapolis “venture studio” that funds and incubates startups, has launched a new workplace safety software company called Anvl.
Anvl’s software allows for the capture and synthesis... Read more »
Occipital, the San Francisco-based spatial computing startup, first planted its flag in computer vision tech five years ago when it released a plug-in sensor, billed as the first 3D sensor... Read more »
On Monday, GM made an announcement that rattled Wall Street, automotive analysts, its own workforce, and President Trump .
A day after the car manufacturer announced plans to close factories in... Read more »
The University of Michigan has spent the better part of a decade beefing up classes and programs that teach students how to start and run their own companies, and those efforts... Read more »
The Michigan Mobility Challenge, a state grant program for innovative multi-modal transportation projects, has begun handing out money to grantees. From the $8 million in available funds, nine projects totaling... Read more »
The holiday season will soon be upon us, but that doesn’t mean work is slowing down in Michigan’s innovation hubs. Here’s a look at recent technology and entrepreneurship news from across... Read more »
The humble cell has been getting a lot of attention in the medical world lately, and Ann Arbor, MI-based biotech startup Celsee wants to make it easier to study them.
As... Read more »
Earlier this month, GM CEO Mary Barra told the crowd at a financial conference that her company was on track to unveil a ridesharing service in 2019 that would be powered... Read more »
Artificial intelligence and automation are helping legacy industries across the country become more innovative and efficient.
An Indianapolis startup called DriverReach is doing just that for the trucking industry, where driver... Read more »
Scale Computing, an Indianapolis IT startup serving smaller businesses, distributed enterprises, and retailers around the world, has raised $34.8 million in a Series F funding round.
Co-founder and CEO Jeff... Read more »
Teraki, a Berlin-based data processing and artificial intelligence company working in the mobility sector, has had a busy fall.
In late September, Teraki raised a $3 million seed round from... Read more »
In September, Backstage Capital, a venture investment firm seeding early-stage startups led by women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ community, launched a $36 million fund to help... Read more »
Ford made a couple of announcements this week regarding mobility and its efforts to get self-driving cars on the road.
According to a blog post published Monday by Sherif Marakby, CEO... Read more »
Every fall, the University of Michigan formally celebrates the inventions and companies spun out of the school’s research and development efforts. This year, there was a lot to celebrate: according to... Read more »
Indianapolis-based digital marketing firm PERQ has received another injection of seed capital.
The company announced last week that it secured $5 million in follow-on investments in a seed round initiated in... Read more »
The weather is finally starting to cool—I’m a fan of fall —but Michigan’s tech startups and entrepreneurs are still red-hot: they’re raising money, buying competitors and complementary companies, launching new products,... Read more »
The race to get driverless cars on the road is a global endeavor, and one nation putting its pedal to the metal is Israel. A host of Israeli companies are working... Read more »
