Entrepreneurship and Tech Transfer

Built by students and funded by student VCs, the venture marks a new model for launching ideas into ventures.

Today, over 225 million websites are protected by free certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt.

From his days as an online poker playing undergrad to his current role as a technology developer, Josh has discovered a passion – and built a platform – for online learning.

This is the first time that a team from EECS 494 has signed a funded publishing deal.

A Q&A with J. Alex Halderman, who co-founded the nonprofit organization.

Nominees were selected based on their career accomplishments, impact in their field, and contributions to their community.

May Mobility intends to gradually acclimate the public to the experience of autonomous driving.

Voxel51 uses AI processing to identify and track objects and activities through video clips.

By harnessing the power and speed of graphics processing units, a University of Michigan startup can dramatically accelerate gene sequencing, shortening tasks that took multiple days to a single hour.

UpRound works with national and local firms to accelerate the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the region.

Through EduTech, CS student Divyansh Sharma is working to deliver free video courses directly to Indian people in need of basic education.

SambaNova’s approach, stemming from work by Olukotun and co-founder Christopher Ré at Stanford University, seeks to create a new platform from scratch that is optimized specifically for AI operations.

Other investors include Detroit Venture Partners, Maven Ventures, SV Angel, Tandem Ventures, Trucks Ventures, and YCombinator.

Censys is the first commercially available internet-wide scanning tool. It helps IT experts to secure large networks with a constantly changing array of devices.

Jason Mars, CEO of Ann Arbor startup Clinc, was named #2 in Bank Innovations’s “10 Most innovative CEOs in Banking 2017” list. Clinc is leading the pack for development of intelligent banking assistant software.

Since graduating from U-M, Eric N. Vander Weele has helped grow Bloomberg’s technology division and increased efficiency and production for employees and clients.

Clinc has built Finie, the world’s most advanced voice-controlled A.I. platform for banking.

Finie, which can be referred to as the “Siri” of personal banking, is an artificial intelligence platform for banks that helps customers talk to their bank accounts in a natural and conversational way.

A Q&A with the Michigan Engineering alumni who founded Twilio, a “unicorn” in the tech industry.

Clinc has built Lucida, its state-of- the-art, open-source intelligent assistant and machine learning platform that allows developers and the open-source community to easily create and deploy personalized voice and vision-based intelligent assistants.

In order to bring HTTPS to everyone, Prof. Halderman joined forces in 2012 with colleagues at Mozilla and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to found Let’s Encrypt, a non-profit certificate authority with the mission of making the switch to HTTPS vastly easier.

Cogitai was formed with the aim of developing AI technology that empowers machines to learn from interaction with the real world.

Healthcare security company Virta Laboratories, Inc. has received a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

Let's Encrypt allows anyone to request a free website security certificate without needing an invitation.

Virta Laboratories was co-founded in part by Prof. Kevin Fu and former CSE postdoctoral researcher Denis Foo Kune.

This annual ranking of innovative companies in SE Michigan is based on the quality of patents received during the past year.

Entrepreneur Dhruv Gupta bui;d his web and mobile based weight management program that provides customized diet plans and exercises in 2011.

SkySpecs is currently in the process of launching their first product, the Guardian, which will help prevent collisions.

The startup helps college students find suitable places to live, while also helping landlords manage their properties.

Congratulations to these winning companies. Go Blue!

Congratulations to Keith Porter and Patrick Theisen!