There isn't much about Innovative BioTherapies that isn't a feel-good story. It makes a product that helps save combat soldiers' lives, hopes to transfer that technology to every day medicine while it looks to create a few jobs (and maybe even hire former Pfizer worker or two).
As more and more start-ups look to make names and profits for themselves in the life sciences game, it's firms like Biotechnology Business Consultants that help them take flight. The 18-year-old firm has grown to five people and expects to add another person as it helps more and more businesses grow.
In a time of war is it any wonder a firm like Ann Arbor's Solidica is going after more military contracts. The wireless sensor development firm has created 15 jobs in the last two years and hopes to do so again in the next two.
The number of people who work for Ann Arbor's Translume is nearly double the number of years the company has been around, and the glass micro-machining firm hopes to add a few more jobs to that total in the near future.
DesignHub is making a name for itself in Saline and helping the small town make a name in the new economy. The website development and marketing firm has grown to four people and hopes to add another job or two sooner rather than later.
Spirit Shop is taking one of the older business models (T-shirt making) and putting a modern touch on it by developing a way to print fewer of them for less money. It's a formula that's helping it make more money and create more jobs.
The new economy is growing in Ypsilanti, too. Issys has worked its way up to 30 employees in the last dozen years and hopes to add six more by the end of this year.
Sentinely Technologies has big plans for Ann Arbor. The IT firm based in the Chicago area hopes its new Tree Town office will reach $5 million in sales this year, double that next year --all while creating 5 to 8 new jobs in the same time frame.
While company after company is trying to teach its industry a thing or two to make money, Ann Arbor's Procuit is trying to make it's dough by making sure the lesson is learned. The training-retention firm hopes to double its growth and triple its staff within the next year.
SpamStopsHere is moving full speed ahead. The Ann Arbor buisiness' revenues have steadily grown and it hopes to hire another 10 to 12 people this year.
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