= Regional sources for funding and capital:<br/> =
*'''Victors for Michigan ''' - A fundraising campaign undertaken by e<span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px;">very unit at all three U-M campuses to focus on some or all of the three priorities:</span>
**Student support
**Engaged learning
**Bold ideas
*'''Michigan Venture Capital Association '''
*'''Wolverine Venture Fund ''' - <span style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The $7 million dollar </span>Wolverine Venture Fund<span style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> invests primarily in early stage companies. The Fund is one of the world's first VC funds where students are partners in the investment decision-making process. The Fund's students members seek, screen and negotiate investments and develop significant experience in these areas - and in working with VCs and entrepreneurs. An advisory board of professional venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, and approximately 28 MBA students participate in managing this multi-million dollar fund.</span>
*'''Zell Lurie Commericialization Fund ''' - <span style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The </span>Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund<span style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> is a pre-seed investment fund established to identify and accelerate the commercialization of great ideas generated within the University community and the surrounding area. Zell Lurie Fund participants (Zell Lurie Fellows) evaluate and invest in early stage entrepreneurial opportunities to learn about the commercialization process and how to be a seed investor. The Zell Lurie Fund teams, focused on healthcare, technology, consumer, and cleantech, work closely with founders, entrepreneurs and with the University of Michigan's Office of Technology Transfer in the course of their work. The Fund is also supported by an advisory board comprised of individuals who have been successful in developing early-stage companeis, markets and technologies.</span>
*'''UM Social Venture Fund ''' - <span style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Launched in September of 2009, the </span>Social Venture Fund<span style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> is the first student-led investment fund of its kind and the first to close a deal among other such funds that have launched. The Fund focuses exclusively on for-profit social enterprises existing independently or within the legal structure of a pre-existing organization (LC3, 501c3, LLC, etc.). It invests $50,000-$250,000 in pre-revenue and post-revenue companies generating a profit and responding to critical challenges within Education, Food Systems, Environment, Health, and Urban Revitalization. It is focused on businesses based in the U.S. and is particularly interested in plans for the Southeast Michigan/Detroit area.</span>
*'''Venture Michigan Fund'''
= University Technology Transfer Functions =