{"id":10664,"date":"2018-10-11T15:59:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T19:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=10664"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:44","slug":"software-companies-lead-2018-tech-start-ups-at-u-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/11\/software-companies-lead-2018-tech-start-ups-at-u-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Software companies lead 2018 tech startups at U-M"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10669\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10669\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10669\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/start-ups-600x400-e1540497479500.jpg\" alt=\"Man standing in front of posters showing lists of start ups by year.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Office of Technology Transfer)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/engaged.umich.edu\/news-features\/u-m-hits-new-record-with-21-startups-in-fy2018\/\">number of startups launched at U-M nearly doubled in fiscal year 2018<\/a> to 21 as U-M inventors went to market with a broad array of discoveries. Nine of the 21 startups are software companies. The majority of this year\u2019s startups are also headquartered in southeast Michigan, where they\u2019re creating jobs and helping to diversify the economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing an explosion of interest in launching software startups,\u201d said Kelly Sexton, associate vice president for research-technology transfer and innovation partnerships at U-M.\u00a0 \u201cNetwork security, for instance, is now one of the fastest-growing industry sectors in the Ann Arbor area, and it all started with the university\u2019s investment in the early internet, which eventually gave rise to U-M startups like ArborNetworks, and, more recently, Censys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of startups launched at U-M nearly doubled in fiscal year 2018 to 21 as U-M inventors went to market with a broad array of discoveries. Nine of the 21 startups are software companies. The majority of this year\u2019s startups are also headquartered in southeast Michigan, where they\u2019re creating jobs and helping to diversify the economy. \u201cWe\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/11\/software-companies-lead-2018-tech-start-ups-at-u-m\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[178,302,21,127],"class_list":["post-10664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-innovation","tag-software"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/start-ups-600x400-e1540497479500.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/start-ups-600x400-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/start-ups-600x400-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/start-ups-600x400-768x512.jpg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/start-ups-600x400-700x467.jpg",600,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/start-ups-600x400-e1540497479500.jpg",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/start-ups-600x400-e1540497479500.jpg",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/start-ups-600x400-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/start-ups-600x400-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/start-ups-600x400-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/start-ups-600x400-665x443.jpg",665,443,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/start-ups-600x400-e1540497479500.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The number of startups launched at U-M nearly doubled in fiscal year 2018 to 21 as U-M inventors went to market with a broad array of discoveries. 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