U-M Startup HealthMedia Wins Ann Arbor Business Review - Company of the Year
Pictured from left to right at Deals of the Year '08 are HelathMedia investor, Rick Snyder, Director of the U-M Center for Health Communications Research and company founder, Dr. Vic Strecher, Health Media CEO, Ted Dacko, and Executive Director of U-M Tech Transfer, Ken Nisbet.
University of Michigan startup HealthMedia took the honors as Company of the Year during the Ann Arbor Business Review's fourth annual Deals of the Year awards gala, held Friday, November 14 on the campus of Eastern Michigan University. The award capped a good fall for the online health coaching company, which, after announcing record revenues of $20 million, was acquired by health care giant Johnson & Johnson. According to reports, the company will continue to be headquartered in Ann Arbor.
Accuri Cytometers, another U-M startup, took the award for best Health Care Deal in recognition of a recently closed $15 million funding round. Accuri produces revolutionary, low-cost desktop flow cytometry systems.
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