Roundup: Upwardly Global, BoostUp, Jacapps, Quicken Loans, Sakti3

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Sakti3, the Ann Arbor-based solid-state battery technology startup, announced last week that is has appointed Edward Frank to its board of directors. Frank, a named inventor on more than 50 patents, is the co-founder and CEO of Cloud Parity, an early-stage social networking startup in San Francisco. Before founding Cloud Parity, he served as vice president of Macintosh hardware systems engineering at Apple. He was also a founding CEO of Epigram and was a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems.

“[Frank’s] track record in transforming novel technology into successful products will help us as we productize solid state batteries for consumer electronics,” Sakti3 co-founder and CEO Ann Marie Sastry said.

Author: Sarah Schmid Stevenson

Sarah is a former Xconomy editor. Prior to joining Xconomy in 2011, she did communications work for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the Michigan House of Representatives. She has also worked as a reporter and copy editor at the Missoula Independent and the Lansing State Journal. She holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Native American Studies from the University of Montana and proudly calls Detroit "the most fascinating city I've ever lived in."