Tech Startups

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And be sure to join the Ann Arbor New Tech Meetup to find out about other companies, startup events, cofounders and jobs in town.

Early-stage

• Accelrus - web marketing tools
• Adaptive Campus - Personal education and career management software
• AirNinja - Discount airlines throughout the world.
• Ann Arbor Chronicle - daily community news
• Arbor Photonics - Powering Advanced Laser Processing
• Backyard Brains Inc. - Low Cost Tools and Toys for Neuroscience Education
• Beige Bag Software - Electronic Circuit Simulation, Clean Energy / Smart Grid
• Blue Planet Classifieds - Online Free Classifieds
• Boomdash - Enable Local Businesses to Advertise Online
• Buycentives - targeted auto buyer's incentives
• BracketScience- NCAA Tournament Basketball Stats
• CampusRoost - social network for campus neighborhoods
• CADcorporation - customizable 3D virtual worlds
• CloudTrade - media sharing mobile software
• Clueray - search optimization and document analysis technology
• cMFGx - contract manufacturing directory and manufacturing procurement application
• CreateMyTee - online custom t-shirts
• Current Motor Company - electric vehicles (scooters)
• Dermanaut - electronic medical records for dermatology
• DormTrader - buy, sell, and trade your books, music, movies, and video games on Facebook
• Finao - custom photo books
• Frontier Markets - sales forecasting through prediction markets
• Greenovation.TV - green home remodeling Internet TV channel
• Greenview Data - makers of SpamStopsHere and VEdit
• Gundam Store and More- leading online Gundam model kit store
• Home School Advantage- supplemental home training to create brilliant students.
• iFlightPlanner - web & mobile aviation weather, flight planning and logging tools for pilots
• IOS  -Systems Integration
• InterviewTrail - medical residency rankings, reviews, and interviews
• KISS Auto Auction - online automotive auction
• KnowledgeCrush - online personal/professional coaching and training
• LeadNuke - online sales lead management
• LocalOrb.it - online tools for locavores
• Locomatix - next generation location-based and contextual services
• Loud Feed beta - "Tools for Independence" (TM) - Get Your Music Heard
• MediaOnion - online conference management
• Mobiata - iPhone travel applications
• MyBandStock - buy stock in a band
• Nudge Them - SMS reminders for small business
• Olark - Instant consumer to business communication - chat with visitors to your website with your existing instant messenger or mobile device.
• Phonagle - location-based mobile gaming
• Powerleap - piezoelectric flooring
• Profcast - all-in-one podcast tool
• Project Freestyle - soccer social networking site
• Quantum Learning Technologies - web-delivered educational video games
• Race & Replace - solve car problems online
• RateMyStudentRental - like the name says
• RentLinx - online rental listings
• Reveal - electronic design automation for the semiconductor industry
• Sampfire - protocol feasiblity and patient population analysis utilizing large scale Electronic Medical Records databases
• ScoutForce - share recruiting information between sports recruiters and coaches
• ShanaLogic - Shop Indie, Pass It On!
• Shoshana Technologies - Operating Room, Home Care Scheduling Systems
• skoogO - academic information networking
• Social Harbor - business social networking profile builder
• Spirit Shop - Custom School & Team Apparel, Uniforms, and Gear
• Super Simple Storage Service - Write-only cloud storage
• Synaptin - modern mobile medical paging systems
• TherapyCharts - electronic health records management
• Tradeversity - web-based trading platform
• Torrey Path - research decision support for the life sciences
• Troubadour Mobile - mobile software
• Tweeteorology - the Twitterverse on the weather
• uRefer - online referral marketing platform
• UrTurn - rewards market for social networks
• WattIQ - electric power monitoring and fault detection in HVAC systems
• YogaPro - maker of YogaToes!
• YouCompete - create, organize, and participate in social competitions
• VeoProject - web-based collaborative project management
• Vortex Hydro Energy - bringing to market patented technology for generating clean energy from flowing water
• work-flow.biz - Web-project management application

Expansion

• A2 Hosting - shared, dedicated, VPS Linux hosting
• Advanced Photonics - electronic semiconductor sensors
• CareEvolution - healthcare information exchange solutions
• Cielo MedSolutions - healthcare management software
• Coherix - 3D machine vision
• CrimeCog - integrated criminal justice SaaS
• Danotek - advanced electro-mechanical drives, motors, and digital sensor/sensorless control systems
• Digerati - process reengineering
• Driven TechnologyIT Support for small business, Retail brick/mortar and e-commerce computer sales and service
• eePulse - delivering data and dialogue-driven leadership
• ForeSee Results - online customer satisfaction measurement
• gloStream - electronic medical record and practice management solutions
• Hook - 3D advertising
• MedHub - web-enabled enterprise residency management solution
• Ilium Software - information management tools for mobile devices
• Janeeva - SaaS Outsourcing Relationship Management
• Llamasoft - supply chain optimization and simulation
• Mediaspan - digital content management and online marketing
• Mobatech - mobile phone software
• Move Networks - hosted video delivery
• MyBuys - behavioral targeting for online retailers
• NEXCESS.NET - Shared, Dedciated, VPS hosting and co-location
• Online Technologies - IT disaster recovery and Internet infrastructure
• Pixel Velocity - advanced high-speed digital image processing
• Reactor Zero - game developer
• Solidica - wireless sensor networks
• Synergy Broadband - broadband, collocation, voice, wiring, technology consulting, web hosting, phone systems
• White Pine Systems - secure personal health information management
• Zattoo - bringing TV to the Internet

Mature

• Arbor Networks - network security, visibility, and analysis
• Barracuda Networks - e-mail/web security
• Campfire Interactive - Collaborative Product Development platform
• CareerSite - the original online jobs board
• Cybernet Systems Corp. - DoD, NASA, NIH, NSF R&D company
• Ensure Technologies - proximity card authentication
• GoKnow - mobile educational software
• The Linux Box - Open Source Software Development and Support
• MSEN - one of Michigan's oldest full service commercial ISPs
• Sentinel - integrated, customized IT solutions
• Soar Technology - cognitive software for training, modeling & simulation, intelligence analysis, command and control, robotics, and medical informatics
• EMAG Technologies -  electromagnetic simulation and verification software.

Exited

• ANS - acquired by AOL
• Anzen Computing
• ArborText (now PTC)
• BlueGill (now CheckFree)
• Caimis (now Ixia)
• FirstVirtual(now DoubleClick)
• Fry
• HealthMedia
• Imageware
• Internet Engineering Group (IEng)
• Outrage Entertainment / Parallax Software
• Rosebud Solutions
• Slashdot/ Sourceforge - technically in Dexter, but I'm always surprised how many geeks don't know this
• Techstreet
• Transom Technologies

Other Large Tech Employers

• All Media Guide
• Compuware
• Internet2
• JSTOR
• MSC Software
• MediaSpan
• Merit Networks
• ProQuest
• RiskMetrics Group, Inc.
• Thomson Reuters
• University of Michigan

Hosting

• A2 hosting
• DigitalRealm
• HDL
• IAS
• Online Technologies
• Network Vista
• NEXCESS.NET
• ServerShack

Consultants

• 3.7 DESIGNS - web design, web strategy, web marketing
• Afia - healthcare IT consulting and strategy
• Art Binaire - web development
• Arbormoon Software, Inc - iPhone and Mac Software Development
• Citron:ade Design - graphic & web design, usability analysis, user-experience design
• Chrysalis Interactive - web design, brand strategy, DRM
• CitySimulation - 3D virtual reality models
• Compound Thinking - Project Consulting and Python Web Development
• Dataspace - data warehousing
• Different Chairs - Python/Django web development
• Dynamic Edge - IT consulting and web development
• The Factotem Constellation - software, content, marketing, strategic bizdev
• Gordian Labs LLC - software design and development, problem solving, skunkworks
• Grand River Interactive - e-commerce design and development
• HiperLogic LLC - Virtualization, High Performance Computing, Linux
• HSG Consulting LLC- Project Management consulting and coaching
• Humble Daisy - web design, information architecture, marketing
• Huron One - custom website design and web application development
• Infogen Inc - IT Consulting, Web Design,Software Design and Development
• Ingenex Digital Marketing - Digital Marketing, Web Design, Social Media
• Inner Circle Media - Website design, web-based application development, marketing
• iQguys LLC- web services, web software, graphic design, brand development, and user interface design
• Menlo Innovations - software design and development
• MediaRica - social media widgets with ecommerce, web services and podcasting
• MetaSpring Web Development - Software development, website design and marketing.
• Nology Design - website design and development
• Northtech Systems - Website design and development, specializing in Drupal and CMS.
• Pair of Docs Consulting - technology-focused start-up consulting
• Pearl Crescent - browser extension, app design, LDAP/web/open-source products and consulting
• Polyergic - Business, Engineering, & Scientific software consulting
• Pure Visibility, Inc. - Internet marketing strategy
• Ruby Skills LLC - Ruby on Rails consulting using agile development methodologies.
• Safford & Baker - business lawyers with a specialty in representing technology startups
• Sazbean Consulting - Web Strategy & Agile Development (specializing in ROR)
• Sisu Unlimited - Custom Python software and documentation.
• SRT Solutions - software consulting
• Stout Systems - software consulting
• Sungrace Software - Engineering software consulting
• Switchback - CMS-driven web development and design
• Team Forrest - VoIP, Asterisk, Telephony Consulting
• The Tolle Group - business leadership coaching and organizational development
• The Whole Brain Group - software consulting and design
• Westside Consulting LLC - web software development, PHP/Drupal, Perl, Java, Javascript
• Wireless Ypsi - Free Wireless Networks for cities, campuses, downtowns, parks, and neighborhoods
• Zeno Consulting, Inc. - Software consulting

Non-profit

• A2CTO - Ann Arbor Community Technical Outreach
• Appropriate Technology Collaborative - Design for the other 90% of the planet
• Geek 4 the Greater Good - Geeks Volunteer on behalf of Charitable Organizations
• The Generation Project - personalized donations for K-12 students in low-income communities
• Liberty St. Robot Supply and Repair, part of 826michigan - robot store to support the free downtown writing and tutoring center
• npServ at NEW - managed IT services for non-profits built on Linux thin clients