Entrepreneurship and Tech Transfer
NS Nanotech boosts power of far-UVC disinfection light source by over 60%
NS Nanotech, co-founded by Prof. Zetian Mi, develops gallium nitride nanowire LEDs for visible displays and UVC disinfection applications.Puffin Air Purifiers team are winners in national innovation competition
Rebecca Lentz and Rachel Silcox received $5K and additional mentorship from the VentureWell Accelerator program to develop their indoor CO2 monitor and air purifier technology.MemryX Raises $44 Million And Pushes Edge AI Forward With Energy-Efficient Chips
Prof. Wei Lu is CTO and co-founder of the edge AI semiconductor company, MemryX.Heat2Power: a hot new startup that converts stored heat into electricity
Heat2Power, co-founded by Profs. Stephen Forrest and Andrej Lenert, uses high-efficiency, low-cost thermophotovoltaic technology to turn stored heat into energy.Wei Lu named U-M Innovation Champion
As a university-wide leader in tech transfer, Lu will serve as a resource to help ECE faculty connect their research with real-world applications.NS Nanotech releases first solid-state semiconductor to produce human-safe disinfecting UV light
NS Nanotech, co-founded by Prof. Zetian Mi, has designed a solution to mitigate this airborne infection.ECE Spinout company NS Nanotech releases first solid-state semiconductor to produce human-safe disinfecting UV light
NS Nanotech’s new product, enabled by ECE Prof. Zetian Mi’s research, can safely disinfect high-risk spaces like ambulances and school buses.ECE startup MemryX releases MX3 Edge AI Accelerator
MemryX has announced production availability of a new AI chip, enabled by U-M ECE research.Aline Eid receives MTRAC Award to commercialize radar vision for autonomous indoor navigation
Prof. Eid will partner with the industry startup Atheraxon to market technology for automated guided vehicles in warehouse environments and beyond.Voxel51 secures $30M to help gen AI understand visual input more accurately
The startup company Voxel51, co-founded by Prof. Jason Corso and alum Brian Moore, is "designed to reduce the failure rate of AI projects."University of Michigan team partners with Semiwise to tackle cryogenic control electronics technology
Prof. Dennis Sylvester and PhD student Qirui Zhang are working with UK-based company Semiwise Ltd. to design cryogenic circuitry and improve the efficiency of quantum computing.First PC AI accelerator cards from MemryX, Kinara debut at CES
PCWorld: MemryX, a startup so-Founded by Prof. Wei Lu, debuted their MX3 Edge AI Accelerator chips, which are the first to support AI enabled PC (AI PC), at CES this year.High-tech pat-downs: Startup lands $6M to develop handheld device for detecting concealed weapons
Lassen Peak, a startup co-founded by Prof. Ehsan Afshari that is developing a handheld concealed weapon detection system, extends Series A funding with $6 million from Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group, bringing their total funding now to $32 million.Alum Mo Faisal on building a successful semiconductor company
Faisal, the 2023 ECE Rising Star Alumni Award recipient, founded Movellus based on his doctoral research conducted under Prof. David Wentzloff.Voxel Announces Seed Financing to Drive Additive Manufacturing with AI Design Platform
Voxel, a startup founded by alum and current CEO Aaron Chow (BSE EE 2019) that's focused on transforming the additive manufacturing industry, has closed $1.7 million in seed financing and will open a new headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio.In a new Technical Sales course, students practice the skill set of selling technology to businesses
Alum Eli Neumann, the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales Engineers, co-designed the Center for Entrepreneurship course.ECE Expeditions rides to the Lone Star State for a tour of engineering companies
Students networked with alums, tested demos of new technology, and toured labs at HPE, NASA, Ambiq, Dell, Torc Robotics, and NI.MemryX Inc. opens R&D center in Bangalore, India - advancing simple and scalable processing solutions for Edge AI
The opening of the Bangalore site is complementary to existing MemryX engineering capabilities in Taipei, Hsinchu, and Ann Arbor. MemryX, co-founded by Prof. Wei Lu, offers a differentiated high efficiency, low power, and scalable Edge AI solutions.UofM Alumni Startup Launches Battery-less Sensor to Hyperscale Sustainable IoT in Manufacturing and Beyond
Automation Alley: Silicon Valley-based startup Everactive, which was co-founded in 2012 by Prof. David Wentzloff, launched its first development kit of ENV+ Eversensor battery-less sensors.What is Batteryless IoT?
Everactive's Co-Founders & Co-CTO's, Ben Calhoun & David Wentzloff, discuss batteryless IoT and its future use cases in this podcast by IoT for all.Vikram Verma talks the value of engineering and leadership to society as the 2022 ECE Alumni Impact Award winner
Verma credits his distinguished 30-year executive career with leading technology companies, including Savi Technology, Lockheed Martin and 8x8 Inc., to a combination of education, leadership, and luck.ECE at the center of Celebrate Invention: 2022
Wei Lu talked about his innovations as the 2022 Distinguished University Innovator, followed by a panel discussion about the University's role in fueling new high tech companies in the area.Everactive releases first development kit
U-M startup co-founded by Prof. David Wentzloff, Everactive - maker of category-defining batteryless Internet of Things (IoT) systems - is releasing its first development kit to allow third-party developers to build their own IoT products without the constraints of batteries.Voxel51 lands funds for its platform to manage unstructured data
TechCrunch features Voxel51, a startup founded by Prof. Jason Corso, which closed on $12.5m in Series A funding.Announcing Our $12.5M Series A Funding to Bring Transparency and Clarity to the World’s Data
Voxel51, founded by Prof. Jason Corso, closed on $12.5M Series A funding to accelerate the next phase of their growth in bringing data-centric Machine Learning to the world.MemryX Begins Customer Sampling of AI Accelerator Chip
MemryX Inc., a pioneering start-up co-founded by Prof. Wei Lu that designs breakthrough silicon for artificial intelligence (AI) processing for edge devices, announced today it has begun customer sampling of its revolutionary MX3 AI Accelerator.MemryX Is A New AI Company We Actually Need
Co-founded by Prof. Wei Lu in 2019, MemryX is developing a fundamental core architecture for Edge AI with high flexibility and reconfigurability. In a crowded space, it seems MemryX has what it takes to succeed.ECE alum Mihir Sheth receives Young Innovator Award from Innovate UK for making a medical device that weans patients off ventilators quicker
Sheth is the co-founder of Inspiritus Health and has developed a simple to use, non-invasive medical device that keeps patients’ muscles engaged when they are on a ventilator to prevent muscle atrophy.Qualcomm's AI chip chief departs to take helm at startup MemryX
MemryX Inc., a pioneering startup building breakthrough silicon for artificial intelligence processing co-founded by Professors Wei Lu and Zhengya Zhang, has appointed semiconductor industry veteran Keith Kressin as its new president and CEO.May Mobility to launch AV shuttle in Ann Arbor
May Mobility, the autonomous transportation company co-founded by Prof. Edwin Olson, is launching a free autonomous vehicle shuttle service in Ann Arbor beginning Oct. 11. The company also has autonomous shuttles operating in Grand Rapids; Arlington, Texas; Hiroshima, Japan; and Indianapolis.FiftyOne Turns One!
ECE startup Voxel51 celebrates its 40,000 users for their open source dataset curation and model analysis tool, FiftyOne.Michigan startup MemryX, Inc. promises faster, cheaper AI processing
The ECE startup builds neuromorphic computer chips uniquely suitable for AI applicationsWith Slide, student entrepreneurs aim to make contact sharing frictionless
Free ‘A2GO’ autonomous shuttle service coming to Ann Arbor this fall
May Mobility, co-founded by Prof. Edwin Olson, along with U-M’s Mcity and Ann Arbor SPARK announced the launch of a free autonomous vehicle shuttle service that will begin operating in downtown Ann Arbor this October.Mythic Raises $70 Million in Series C Funding Led by BlackRock and Hewlett Packard Enterprise
AI accelerator chip start-up Mythic, founded in 2012 at U-M by EECS alumni Mike Henry and Dave Fick, has raised $70 million in Series C Funding. The company has raised over $165.2 million to-date and has offices in Redwood City, CA and Austin, TX.U-M Spinoff Everactive Closes $35M Funding Round on Battery Monitoring Tech
Everactive is an IoT company co-founded by Prof. David Wentzloff. The company makes battery-free monitoring solutionsAfter five years, Let’s Encrypt, a non-profit based on tech developed at Michigan, has helped to secure the internet
Josh Meyer has built the software that your kids and teachers need
Undergrad game developers sign video game development deal
Amulya Parmar: One conversation can change everything
Amulya Parmar started his first company at 15, and is committed to positive impact in all of his endeavors.U-M startup SkyGig aims to take 5G to the next level
Fluke Leads Series C Investment in Everactive to Accelerate Growth in IIoT Solutions
Fluke Corporation (“Fluke”) announced today that it led an investment in Everactive, a Silicon Valley-based technology company that sells category-defining batteryless, wireless Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions. Everactive will raise up to $35M as part of its Series C funding round. Everactive was co-founded by Prof. David Wentzloff.Ann Arbor-based Voxel51 launches industry’s first open-source experimentation tool
U-M startup NS Nanotech unveils new generation of LEDs for high-efficiency, high-performance displays
NS Nanotech Closes the LED “Green Gap”
The company's green LED technology is expected to deliver an order-of-magnitude improvement in efficiency for micron-sized devices. NS Nanotech was co-founded by Prof. Zetian Mi, who developed the technology.The Wolverines Behind the Next Generation of Autonomous Vehicles
The Center for Entrepreneurship profiles a team of EECS students, who are working to develop the next generation of delivery vehicles.Battery-free sensor startup takes aim at industrial efficiency
Nvidia makes its GPU-powered genome sequencing tool available free to those studying COVID-19
Founded by Prof. Scott Mahlke and his former students Mehrzad Samadi and Ankit Sethia, Parabricks was acquired by Nvidia in December 2019. Parabricks accelerates genomic analysis.How UM degrees propelled careers in T-shirts, robots and photo archives
MLive profiles the Ann Arbor T-shirt Company, co-founded by alums Jerry Kozak (Business) and Ricky Winowiecki (Computer Engineering).How Let’s Encrypt doubled the percentage of secure websites in four years
Two ‘U’ researchers receive Distinguished University Innovator Award
The Michigan Daily profiles Professors David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, who are this year’s recipients of the 2019 Distinguished University Innovator Award.Five EECS faculty and alumni recognized for business success
Blaauw, Sylvester are 2019 Distinguished University Innovators
Year of growth, experiments for May Mobility
KLA opens new R&D office in Ann Arbor
Advancing AI for Video: Startup launches powerful video processing platform
A Spotlight on Optics
U-M startup raises $6 million in venture funding
Taking on the limits of computing power
Rick Bolander: Entrepreneurship is a team sport
Transformative approach to 5G funded by new Innovator program
A new company, Omniscent, is sniffing out dangerous levels of toxic chemicals in the air
Student org brings investors to Michigan
Making education accessible in rural India
Q&A with Mingyan Liu
The next medical markets of Collin Rich
Mingyan Liu, 2018 Distinguished University Innovator, talks about her company and data science commercialization
CSE alum startup SambaNova collects $56m in funding for AI chip research
BMW, Toyota invest in U-M startup May Mobility
Internet-scanning U-M startup offers new approach to cybersecurity
Bringing smart banking to market
Evigia founder Navid Yazdi creates essential sensor networks
Footsteps all her own
Fred Buhler builds better chips for “Aweslome” applications
Rick Bergman, CEO of Synaptics – giving tech a sense of touch
A VR-powered crystal structures app (video)
The ‘Power’ of a lunchbox
Eric Vander Weele: Building Bloomberg LP
ECE Alum Kevin Johnson receives IEEE-USA Award
CSE-based startup Clinc receives $6.3M in funding to further develop intelligent banking assistant
CubeWorks: Solving problems with the world’s smallest and lowest-power computers
Cubeworks receives its first external funding to manufacture millimeter-scale computing devicesAlum startup wins $25,000 at Accelerate Michigan Competition
MHacks win propels virtual reality startup named Gwydion, focused on child therapy and 3D gaming
Clinc launches Finie, an AI personal assistant for mobile banking
‘The most interesting tech IPO of the year’ was founded by alums
CSE-based startup receives funding to develop systems based on intelligent personal assistant technology
With over 7 million certificates issued, Let’s Encrypt aims to secure the entire web
New venture is on the path to build continual learning AIs
U-M cyber security startup purchased by FICO
Fighting cyber crime with data analytics
Making Memory Smaller, Better, Faster, Stronger
G is for Google
Larry Page changed the web forever in 1998, now he wants to change the world.Engineering a better life for people with diabetes
Startup founded by U-M assoc. professor gets NSF grant
Cutting the cost of hearing
Secure your website now: Let's Encrypt enters Public Beta
Googling the physical world
First-ever ECE Career Fair builds student careers and alumni connections
Ashraf Dahod: 2015 CoE Alumni Medal Award Winner
Jimmy Hsiao – A local player in a global market
Claude Gauthier and OmniPhy: Connecting to the ethernet revolution
3 ECE companies make the Silicon 60 List – again!
Virta Labs Introduces PowerGuard™
Engineering friendship
EECS students make career connections at NSBE conference
Four EECS companies make Crain’s list of most innovative companies, and one tops the list
ECE alum Ruba Borno to join Cisco’s new executive team
The Mad Scientist’s Lab: A look inside Mitch Rohde and Quantum Signal’s school-sized playhouse
Silicon valley entrepreneurs help bring WIMS2 technology to the world
Health and Fitness Company Founded by CS Alum Gets Acquired by Practo
Stephen Forrest receives 2015 Distinguished University Innovator Award
Two ECE alums make top semiconductor CEOs list
Student team reaches Qualcomm finals with their proposal for a wearable haptic device
Nick Yang: Investing in the age of robotics
EECS alums are flying high with drone startup Skyspecs
Scott Hanson receives 2014 Arbor Networks Ph.D. Research Impact Award
UM Computer Science Alumni Create Cribspot.com
Steve Mollenkopf: Leader of Qualcomm and Mobile Technologies
Peter Tchoryk: An entrepreneurial CEO
Alumni Spotlight: Steve Mollenkopf, New CEO of Qualcomm
PsiKick startup attracts financing for its Internet of Things technology
Keravnos Energy wants to make fast electric vehicle charging economical
Muhammad Faisal wins business competition with technology critical to the Internet of Things
Alumni Spotlight: Allan Evans and Avegant: Creating a brilliant multimedia experience from anywhere with Glyph
Making the Internet of Things happen
Faster, more powerful mobile devices: U-M startup Crossbar could disrupt the memory market
Michael McCorquodale named 2012 UBM Electronics ACE Innovator of the Year
Next-generation computer memory firm receives U-Ms first startup investment
ePack, Inc. wins Masco Next Gen Manufacturing Award at Innovation Competition
Powering breakthrough technologies
MEMStim takes first prize in the Michigan Business Challenge
Connor Field — Growing energy on a solar farm
Najafi, Wise named Distinguished University Innovators
Two electrical engineers set up a global charity
EECS Spinoffs recognized as Key Innovators in Business Competition
Students give a couple of the best among 3,000 Elevator Pitches
Ambiq Micro: Taking a startup to the next level
Mini generators make energy from random ambient vibrations
Enertia and ABC take 1st and 2nd prizes in the clean energy prize business plan competition
University of Michigan Office of Technology to showcase inventions