Ambiq Micro, a startup involving business school students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, has won $250,000 from venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson and communications technology company Cisco Systems, according to a news release. Ambiq Micro, which is working on energy-efficient microcontrollers, beat out 15 other finalists in the competition, which required contestants to make their case using Cisco’s TelePresence communications suites. The presenting members of the Ambiq Micro team were U-M’s Scott Hanson and Phil O’Niel.
Author: Howard Lovy
Howard Lovy is a veteran journalist who has focused primarily on technology, science and innovation during the past decade.
In 2001, he helped launch Small Times Magazine, a nanotech publication based in Ann Arbor, MI, where he built the freelance team and worked closely with writers to set the tone and style for an emerging sector that had never before been covered from a business perspective. Lovy's work at Small Times, and on one of the first nanotechnology-themed blogs, helped him earn a reputation for making complex subjects understandable, interesting, and even entertaining for a broad audience. It also earned him the 2004 Prize in Communication from the Foresight Institute, a nanotech think tank.
In his freelance work, Lovy covers nanotechnology in addition to technological innovation in Michigan with an emphasis on efforts to survive and retool in the state's post-automotive age. Lovy's work has appeared in many publications, including Wired News, Salon.com, the Wall Street Journal, The Detroit News, The Scientist, the Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report, Michigan Messenger, and the Ann Arbor Chronicle.
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