Some things are just meant to happen.

For Michigan-based serial entrepreneur Michael Kanan, the chance to bid on a puppy at this year’s TD Synnex Share the Magic fundraiser in Greenville was a galvanizing opportunity.

The moment the adorable goldendoodle puppy came up for auction, Kanan knew what he had to do.

“It happened and it was a stroke of lightning,” he said. “I knew nobody was going to outbid me.”

An epidemic of hopelessness

That stroke of lightning hit with such force because Kanan – founder of more than a dozen companies including InaCOMP Technology Strategies – acquired a company earlier this year that dedicated a portion of its profits to help reduce the alarming rates of suicide among military veterans.

When Kanan acquired Illinois-based 22Vets Technologies, he embraced

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