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1327 Jones Dr
Ann Arbor, MI 48105

Tech Brewery

Tech Brewery is an unofficial small business incubator on Ann Arbor's north side. It is a community of technologists, entrepreneurs and start-ups. It's home to a dozen fledgling companies. Rents range from $50 to $250 per month on a no-lease basis.
 

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Jon Zemke / Concentrate Friday, February 25, 2011
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Scio Security looks to hire mobile web developers

Friday, October 29, 2010
Scio Security is beginning to hire as the IT-security startup gets ready to formally launch its first product."We're gearing up for our public launch," says Dug Song, co-founder of Scio Security. "We'd like to launch by the end of the year."The Ann Arbor-based firm focuses on providing new Internet security solutions for sensitive data, such as health-care information and financial transactions. Hackers have recently focused efforts on shadowing users or stealing their passwords and other security information to access financial data. Scio Security is creating a variety of solutions, some patent pending. For example, part of the new technology that is not patent pending features an immediate call back to confirm the correct person is trying to access information. Bank of Ann Arbor issued a warning early this year about cyber criminals engaging in corporate account takeover. That is when "cyber-thieves gain control of a business' bank account by stealing the business' valid online banking credentials. Although there are several methods being employed to steal credentials, the most prevalent involves malware that infects a business' computer workstations and laptops. A business can become infected with malware via infected documents attached to an e-mail or a link contained within an e-mail that connects to an infected web site," the bank said in a public statement. Scio Security, nearly 1-year-old, is tackling this problem and others like it from the Tech Brewery with a team of six people. It is looking for two mobile/web developers. For more information on those openings, click here. "It could be more," Song says.Scio Security landed $1 million in venture capital earlier this year. That money came from Silicon Valley-based True Ventures, which led the initial round of fundraising, and Resonant Venture Partners, a new venture capital firm in Ann Arbor.Source: Dug Song, co-founder of Scio SecurityWriter: Jon ZemkeRead more about Metro Detroit's growing entrepreneurial ecosystem at SEMichiganStartup.com.read on…

DealSavant gets ready to spin out of Tech Brewery

Friday, October 29, 2010
If nothing is as valuable as information (well, maybe time) then the people behind DealSavant believe they have something special on their hands. The Tech Brewery-based startup is developing software that will be able to tell retailers specifically who saw their latest bargain and how they found it.The brand-spanking new startup is developing a smartphone application that uses a QR code (think a checkerboard-like bar code that can appear on a touch screen) so people can claim discounts on purchases. Those codes tell the business whether the buyer found the ad on Facebook or from a friend. The software also reveals the gender and age of the buyer."They'll be able to measure where they got their customers from the point of sale," says Joe Minock, one of DealSavant's three co-founders. "Most of us carry our phones wherever we go, so we thought that was a pretty good vehicle."DealSavant has already signed up a few local businesses to participate in its pilot project and is looking for more. The company hopes to have between 50-100 participating businesses in the next 45 days.Source: Joe Minock, co-founder of DealSavantWriter: Jon ZemkeRead more about Metro Detroit's growing entrepreneurial ecosystem at SEMichiganStartup.com.read on…

Adrenaline Commerce gains traction in e-commerce

Friday, October 29, 2010

Business Insider ranks Ann Arbor as Top 20 Most Innovative City

Friday, October 22, 2010
Ann Arbor makes yet another list: This time Tree Town has been ranked as one of the Top 20 Most Innovative Cities in the U.S. by Business Insider. It joins the ranks of Raleigh, N.C., and Los Angeles.Excerpt:Are you having a mental block? Maybe it's not you, it's the city you're in.Innovation analysts at 2thinknow released a list of the most innovative cities in the world. They evaluated 289 cities based on three factors: cultural assets, human infrastructure, and networked markets.Cities were ranked on a one to ten scale in each category for a total possible index score of 30. Once index numbers were determined, cities were given the label of "node," "nexus," or "hub."Christopher Hire, executive director of 2thinknow, explains the process:"Cities that have a high index score are nexus cities, followed by hub then node cities. A node city is a globally "competitive" score, so all cities should aim to be node cities. Node means they are hooked into global networks and connected to the backbone of the global innovation economy.Read the rest of the story here.read on…

Scio Security lands $1 Million in VC

Friday, October 08, 2010
Ann Arbor's Scio Security has pulled down a big number in venture capital and plans to continue hiring as a result of this. The 8-month-old start-up co-founded by Dug Song and Jon Oberheide (both of Arbor Networks fame) recently landed $1 million from Silicon Valley-based True Ventures, which lead the initial round of fundraising, and a new venture capital firm in Ann Arbor called Resonant Venture Partners."The biggest criteria for us are people, by far, because we invest so early," says Puneet Agarwal, partner with True Ventures. "We jumped at the chance to partner with Dug and Jon. … We are betting on Dug and Jon building a great company in Ann Arbor."Scio Security, which calls the Tech Brewery home, has doubled its staff to four people and an intern so far and expects to hire at least two people in engineering and marketing.Scio Security focuses on providing new Internet security solutions for sensitive data, such as health-care information and financial transactions. Hackers have recently focused efforts on shadowing users or stealing their passwords and other security information to access financial data. Scio Security has created a variety of solutions, some patent pending, such as an immediate call back to confirm the correct person is trying to access information."The weakest password of your most gullible employee is the new firewall," says Song, CEO and co-founder of Scio Security. "That's where you have to focus your security."Source: Dug Song, CEO and co-founder of Scio Security and Puneet Agarwal, partner with True VenturesWriter: Jon Zemkeread on…

Tech Brewery's uwemp plans to add 10-15 jobs

Friday, October 08, 2010
Ann Arbor-based Tech Brewery isn't just a place for local techies/entrepreneurs to congregate and create. It's now a place for techies/entrepreneurs from across Metro Detroit.One-year-old uwemp is a prime example of Tech Brewery's growing reach across southeast Michigan. The firm's CEO is out of Bloomfield Hills, but he choose to set up shop for his start-up in Ann Arbor because of infrastructure like the Tech Brewery."My view is that technology is what it's all about and I want to be near the people who know about technology," says Jordan Wolfe, CEO of uwemp. "Plus, Ann Arbor SPARK helped a lot, too."The main product from ewemp is Confidence-Based Learning, a web-based learning engine that uses a Google Analytics-style method that gives educators a better handle on how their students are and are not learning. The program can show when a student is beginning to catch on to a lesson, when the student masters it, and even when he or she wanders off. The idea is to provide educators with the pertinent information to best reach their students. The Michigan Microloan Fund program gave uwemp a five-figure loan earlier this summer. It plans to use that money to create the Beta version of its software and begin testing it with its first customers. The company hopes to hire 10-15 employees over the next year. It currently employs two people full-time and another three independent contractors.Source: Jordan Wolfe, CEO of uwempWriter: Jon Zemkeread on…

A Q&A With Dug Song

Jon Zemke / Concentrate Friday, September 24, 2010
No suit, a skateboard, and an endless thirst for start-ups, Dug Song is one of Michigan's more successful entrepreneurs. Whether its starting companies or organizing social groups or running a tech incubator, Song is perpetually in motion. Concentrate's Jon Zemke caught up with him to discuss both the upsides and downsides of doing business in Ann Arbor.read on…
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