DIVING IN ON WORK-LIFE BALANCE

Why these startups chose Traverse City for tech growth

 Why these startups chose Traverse City for tech growth.

“A lot has been written about work-life balance. at’s what the Traverse City area offers: Work-life balance.”

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at’s what Bruce Patterson said one morning in early April as he began moving into a small o ce in the 20Fathoms business incubator west of downtown. e o ce will serve as the headquarters for now of his startup biotech, HealthBio erapeutics Inc., which will begin testing two generic drugs now approved for other uses for the treatment of long COVID.

HealthBio is in the process of spinning o from IncellDx Inc., a Silicon Valley biotech.

Or, as Je Rynbrandt, the CEO of MediCool Technologies Inc., a biotech spino from research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., now headquartered on Front Street, Traverse City’s main downtown thoroughfare, put it: “Why not just move where you want to vacation? is is a great place from a company perspective.”

“WE HAVE EVERY INTENTION TO GO TO MARKET OURSELVES. WE’RE NOT DOING THIS TO SELL THE COMPANY. THE INTEREST IS TO BUILD IT AND RUN IT.”

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