Detroit

Benzinga is hosting a StockTwits Detroit meetup at its headquarters with a focus on pre-market trading from 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 27. Guests are welcome to enjoy pizza and refreshments with fellow stock market enthusiasts. The event is free and attendees can RSVP here. At 6:30 p.m., a panel...

May Mobility announced Monday it closed a seed round of financing led by BMW i Ventures and Toyota Motor Corp (ADR) (NYSE: TM) AI Ventures. The funding will support this year’s launch of commercial operations and deployment of autonomous shuttles nationwide, building off a Detroit pilot...

Congressman Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) said there’s no perceivable disconnect between what investors want and what the midwest offers. “I’m listening to what the venture capitalists say and what the entrepreneurs say, and they’re all kind of talking the same lingo,” Ryan told...

The mobility world got a little smaller Wednesday with Robert Bosch GmbH’s announced acquisition of Splitting Fares Inc., a Detroit-based platform developer coordinating shared commutes and facilitating peer-to-peer transactions. “Integrated travel is really the hallmark of new transit-...

Mike Kirk has worked in Detroit since the mid-1970s, and he said the city’s resurgence strikes a familiar feel. “This is the fifth time that Detroit’s kind of come back up,” Kirk, principal at Neumann/Smith Architecture, said Tuesday during a Bisnow panel held Tuesday on...

Detroiters awoke Friday to reports the city had enacted a new zoning ordinance that bans the online hospitality marketplace Airbnb from operating in the districts where the majority of its hosts exist. Enforcement Suspended As City Conducts Legal Review  The new zoning ordinance went through...

AutoBooks, a Detroit-based startup, announced Wednesday a $10 million Series A1 round of financing intended to widen the company’s payroll. The firm has already responded to business expansion with the addition of a dozen employees in 2017 and relocation to Detroit's Madison Building, but...

Kristin Hope wanted opportunity. “Growing up in Silicon Valley but never really being able to break into the tech industry there, I thought, 'maybe this is my shot,'” Hope, a copywriter and digital marketer at fintech startup Autobooks, said Wednesday during a roundtable...

Who said humanitarian work had to be free? “A lot of people think by doing good you have to be a nonprofit, or the doing good part of your business is the revenue loss driver,”Warmilu CEO Grace Hsia told Benzinga. “As it turns out, we’ve been able to sell...

Kimbal Musk, brother of sustainable energy maven and Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, thinks Detroit could be a little greener. The head of Colorado-based nonprofit Big Green intends to plant gardens in 100 schools throughout Wayne County and nearby underserved areas as part of a $5-...