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Veterinary United is a Michigan-based company that operates a network of 22 veterinary hospitals, boarding, and daycare centers primarily in Southeastern Michigan. Founded 27 years ago by Dr. Thomas Bankstahl and his wife Julie, the company has grown to employ approximately 276 people and generate annual revenues of around $40.5 million. Its mission is to empower veterinary practices to provide exceptional care through comprehensive support and resources. The company offers full veterinary healthcare services, including medical care, boarding, and daycare for pets. Veterinary United enhances its practices with advanced technology, such as a unified, cloud-based practice management system, which streamlines operations and improves client and patient experiences. Additionally, it provides extensive business support services, including IT, marketing, and professional development, allowing practices to focus on clinical care while promoting sustainable growth. Veterinary United fosters a supportive work culture that emphasizes career development and work-life balance. New veterinary graduates receive tailored mentorship, and all employees enjoy competitive salaries and benefits. The company is dedicated to delivering high-quality pet care while supporting its network of hospitals and veterinary professionals.
For over 120 years, Parr Instrument Company has been designing, manufacturing, and selling high quality laboratory instruments and apparatus for conducting chemical reactions and tests under heat and pressure and for testing fuels. Parrs extensive product line includes stirred reactors, pressure vessels, and high pressure tubular reactors for the study of catalytic and non-catalytic reactions in batch, continuous-flow, and multiple/parallel operation for the chemical, polymer, biofuels, hydrometallurgical, pharmaceutical, petroleum, and petrochemical industries. Custom designed complex reactor systems, built to the customers specifications and requirements are also provided. Parrs oxygen combustion calorimeters are used for the determination of the heat of combustion in solid, liquid, and refuse-derived fuels for the energy, educational, coal, and fuel testing industries. Parr also offers sample preparation vessels for extraction, digestion, and hydrothermal synthesis, as well as a line of vessels for cell disruption by nitrogen decompression.
Taranis is a leading precision agriculture intelligence platform that uses sophisticated computer vision, data science and deep learning algorithms to effectively monitor fields. Taranis offers a full-stack solution for high precision aerial surveillance imagery to prevent crop yield loss due to insects, crop Farmers lose 30-40% of their yield every season due to crop diseases, insects, and weeds. Our mission: Help growers maximize crop yield, improve productivity, and adopt sustainable practices in order to ensure prosperity, starting in our local communities and for the benefit of the world. Taranis crop intelligence solutions use deep agronomic expertise and the most advanced AI and submillimeter image technologies to do just that. We make an impact for over 100 agribusinesses, thousands of farmers, and in millions of acres around the world, and grow rapidly. Founded in 2015, Taranis raised over $100M from leading VC investors and is being led by a founding team with vast experience in both agriculture and technology.