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.

With new funding in the company, the hardtech startup is bringing revolutionary technologies to reshape mmWave wireless.

Brighter, crisper screens that draw half the power and lasts twice as long are possible with NS Nanotech’s next-gen LEDs.

Part of the team that brought us the world’s smallest computer in 2015 brings the future of computing technology into the present.

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.

Pioneering computer technology that is spurring innovation and disruption across industries has earned David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, professors of electrical engineering and computer science, this year’s Distinguished University Innovator Award.

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

The global capital equipment company is looking to harness the engineering talent at U-M and power a brighter future with tech.

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

The Optics Society at U-M hosted an Industry Spotlight event, which brought academia, industry, and community together to celebrate all things optics and photonics.

Movellus is a U-M startup founded by alumni Dr. Mo Faisal (now CEO) and Dr. Jeff Fredenburg (now VP of Engineering).

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.

Rick Bolander (BSE MSE EE ’83 ’85; MBA ’94, Harvard) has devoted his career to fulfilling the entrepreneurial dreams of others as much as his own.

Nine technologies competed for $75k in the ECE Innovator Program, which emphasizes a team approach to entrepreneurial success.

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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.

The incoming electrical and computer engineering chair talks about her vision for the future.

An expert health sciences entrepreneur, Rich is ready to repeat success with revolutionary technology.

Mingyan Liu, recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Innovator of the Year award, gave a talk about her startup company and participated on a panel discussing data science commercialiation.

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.

Alumnus Navid Yazdi develops sensors that accomplish incredible tasks.

The unexpected journey of father-and-daughter Raytheon engineers.

Fred Buhler founded Aweslome to provide custom-build chips for a broad range of applications, including machine learning, neural networks, security, and circuits testing.

ECE alum Rick Bergman, CEO of Synaptics, is working to make tomorrow’s technology user friendly, safe, and reliable. The company hopes to lead what they call “the human interface revolution.”

MHacks winner Duncan Abbot wants his VR software startup, Gwdion, to change how humans interact with technology.

Vasanthakumar came back to Chennai in 2016 with a goal to reinvent traditional and widely used personal products, starting with one of the most versatile products –— the lunchbox.

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.

This award is given to those for Distinguished Public Service that is expected to help tech employees

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

Movellus Circuits won $25,000 in the University Research Highlight and People’s Choice categories

EE senior Duncan Abbot and his new startup Gwydion want to make VR worth the while. Their early projects range from therapy in children’s hospitals to helping materials scientists study 3D crystals.

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.

Analytic software company FICO of San Jose, Calif., bought QuadMetrics to help in its development of a FICO Enterprise Security Score.

QuadMetrics offers a pair of services to help companies both assess the effectiveness of their security and decide the best way to allocate (or increase) their security budget.

Prof. Wei Lu and former student Dr. Sung Hyun Jo co-founded Crossbar, Inc. to tackle the physical limitations of conventional memory technology.

Hygieia automates and streamlines diabetes treatment, a disease affecting over 29 million Americans.

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

MEMStim’s technology is already two phases into pre-clinical testing in preparation for FDA examination. Very few MEMS devices have made it this far.

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

IoT applications are the next wave of computing and the next driving force of the semiconductor industry. The startup PsiKick [now Everactive] is helping shape this future.

Local companies set up stands in the EECS Atrium to recruit from over 200 graduate and undergraduate students.

Dahod has combined an understanding of technology with a knack for recognizing market opportunities and built a string of successful technology companies.

Jimmy founded Logic Solutions, Inc., a consulting company offering website development, web and mobile applications, and other tech solutions to companies around the world.

Dr. Gauthier is co-founder and CTO of the semiconductor interface intellectual property (IP) company, OmniPhy.

Ambiq Micro, Crossbar, Inc., and PsiKick, are leading the way in ultra-low power chip design, pioneering computer memory, and ultra-low power wireless sensor platforms.

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

Alum startup Jetivity aims to bring people together around shared interests with a free platform for posting activities.

55 U-M engineers attended the convention, themed “Reimagining Your Future,” and developed vital connections in their field.

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

The young executive has an extensive history in both the business and tech worlds.

Don’t let the retro arcade games and oscilloscopes fool you – Mitch’s company is as modern as they come.

Shahin and Sassan discussed everything from the acquisition trends of small vs. large companies to the importance of building a team with a range of expertise.

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

Prof. Forrest is widely acknowledged as one of the most successful academic inventors and entrepreneurs today.

Two ECE alumni were recognized in an ‘Electronics Weekly’ list of 2014’s top semiconductor CEOs.

The goal of the project is to augment the transmission of audio and video with the sense of touch.

At the age of 24, Yang sold his company ChinaRen for $35 million.

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

Dr. Hanson is the co-founder of a startup semiconductor company that plans to lead the low-power revolution in electronics by powering the Internet of Things.

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

Mollenkopf was elected as the third CEO of Qualcomm, Inc., which has become the largest fabless semiconductor producer in the world.

At MAC, Peter’s been able to combine his passions for scientific research and entrepreneurial creation.

The chips’ extreme energy efficiency enables them to be powered without a battery from harvested energy sources like vibration, thermal gradients, and more.

The idea behind Keravnos Energy is for there to be an energy transfer between three entities: the building, a large stationary battery, and the car.

Movellus Circuits’ product is a patent-pending clock generator technology that is smaller, cheaper, and faster than existing solutions.

Glyph is a wearable mobile personal theater and is the first head-mounted display coming to market that will have a virtual retinal display.

Wentzloff aims to remove the necessity of a power outlet or even a battery to power miniature sensors.

RRAM is a new form of nonvolatile memory that has the potential to replace the flash memory commonly used in tablets, digital cameras and solid-state drives.

“Without McCorquodale’s vision, unwavering persistence, and leadership in the face of decades of thinking to the contrary, CMOS oscillators would not exist today.”

Crossbar is developing a new nonvolatile memory technology that will offer unprecedented density and power improvements in tomorrow’s electronics.

“ePack utilizes state of the art micromachining technology to provide a cost effective and high performance packaging service for micro- and milli-scale devices.”

Ambiq Micro could revolutionize ubiquitous computing, with energy-efficient microcontrollers that are 10 times more energy efficient than conventional microprocessors.

MEMStim is committed to improving the standard of patient care in neurostimulation. Congratulations, Angelique!

“Energy will be the major concern in the United States for my generation,” Connor says. “Now is the time to research and invest in the technologies that will power our future.”

The pair is being honored for their role developing technologies in microelectromechanical systems and working to apply these innovations when making new products.

“Our mission is to find volunteer opportunities at the places that people want to travel to, opportunities that won’t cost the traveler a lot of money.”

Congratulations to these winning companies. Go Blue!

Congratulations to Keith Porter and Patrick Theisen!

“Imagine a microprocessor so tiny and long lasting that it can be implanted in the eye of a glaucoma sufferer to measure the progress of the disease.”

The energy-harvesting devices are highly efficient at providing renewable electrical power from arbitrary, non-periodic vibrations.

The competition was established by DTE Energy and the University of Michigan to encourage entrepreneurship and the development of clean-energy technologies.

Guo’s computer chip imprinter is one of more than 300 inventions that researchers disclosed last year to U-M’s Technology Transfer office.