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Mobility Accelerator Innovation Network (MAIN)

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND

Funding Amount

$3.5 million over 3-4 years (TechTown portion); $12.4 million total MAIN budget

Deadline

Rolling / Open

Grant Type

foundation

Overview

Mobility Accelerator Innovation Network (MAIN)

Overview: Hardware and software accelerator focusing on mobility and electrification technology startups, part of the Build Back Better Regional Challenge grant initiative.

Award Amount: $3.5 million to TechTown over 3-4 years; $12.4 million total MAIN program budget

Geographic Scope: Detroit, Michigan region

Focus Areas:

  • Mobility technology startups

  • Electrified, autonomous, and connected vehicles

  • Software and hardware solutions

  • Early-stage through commercial scale companies
  • Program Components:

  • Software accelerator for mobility startups

  • Pilot technologies in neighborhoods around Detroit

  • Coordination of ecosystem partners
  • Background: TechTown Detroit is one of five co-recipients of the $52.2 million Build Back Better Regional Challenge grant announced September 2022. The Detroit Regional Partnership coalition was selected out of 60 finalists nationwide and won one of the largest grants of 21 funded projects.

    Partner Organizations:

  • Centrepolis Accelerator at Lawrence Tech

  • Design Core Detroit at the College for Creative Studies

  • Endeavor Detroit

  • Global Detroit

  • Invest Detroit

  • Michigan Founders Fund

  • University of Michigan

  • Wayne State University

  • TechTown Detroit (coordinating partner)
  • Contact: TechTown Detroit, 440 Burroughs Street, Detroit, MI 48202, (313) 879-5250, info@techtowndetroit.org

    Focus Areas & Funding Uses

    Fields of Work

    startupstechnology

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