InfoReady Brings in $250K

InfoReady, an Ann Arbor, MI-based developer of collaboration and workflow management software, announced today that it nabbed a $250,000 investment from Automation Alley, bringing its first-round funding to $1.1 million. The funding will go to sales, marketing, and new product rollouts for InfoReady, which is developing its software for clients who need to search relevant information on research grants and put together proposals to apply for the grants. The firm is also backed by Ann Arbor Spark’s Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund, First Step Fund, and members of the InfoReady advisory board.

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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.