Every day at TechTown we wake up to help Detroit's entrepreneurs take their first step. The first step in their entrepreneurial journey. A journey that will scare, challenge, educate, enlighten and empower them Along that journey, we at TechTown support Detroit's entrepreneurs by providing them a dynamic entrepreneurial experience. As Detroit's largest and fastest growing small business incubator, we offer an unparalleled window into the successes and the challenges of making entrepreneurship a sustainable catalyst for job creation.

If you're an entrepreneur dreaming big in Detroit, we're sure you know what critics are saying can't be done in Detroit. But like Eminem's SuperBowl commercial made clear, what does the world know about the Real D and the dreams daring to do big things here every day? Watch the video again. Then tell us: What keeps you fired up about being a Detroit entrepreneurial dreamer?

NextCAT recently received $250,000 from Automation Alley, bringing the company's total funds raised to more than half a million. NextCAT is a startup in TechTown's THRIVE accelerator program that is commercializing a biofuel catalyst using Wayne State University technology that will dramatically decrease the cost of creating biofuel. The technology could jump-start the biofuel industry, which has been stalled because of high material costs.