StartupDigest Hits Detroit To Generate Buzz on Area Entrepreneur Events

StartupDigest, a San Francisco-based publisher of online newsletters covering startup communities, has just added the Detroit Metro area to the network of more than 50 areas it tracks worldwide.

The publication emails more than 100,000 subscribers across its network each Monday with events and reading lists surrounding the startup and innovation communities in their areas. The Detroit edition is curated by Jeff Epstein, founder of Detroit software startup Zferral, and Raji Bedi, a North Bridge Growth Equity veteran and founder of Web startup DoingTonight.com. The first e-mail letter for the Detroit metro region, which also covers Ann Arbor and East Lansing, went out today. Readers can subscribe here.

Bedi, a University of Michigan graduate who worked in Detroit for a few years before joining North Bridge in Waltham, MA, moved back to Detroit this past summer to work on DoingTonight, a Website that allows users to voice what they’re up to on a given evening. “It took some time to re-acclamate myself to Detroit area,” he says. “It can be a little bit shocking to come back to an area that’s still developing that [entrepreneurial] scene.”

“It’s going to be important to provide more transparent information so that everyone can rally around it to become collectively strong,” says Bedi of building up the Detroit startup community.

Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.