startups

  1. August 26, 2025

    U-M innovators break research commercialization records in FY ’25

    U-M researchers and faculty achieved unprecedented commercialization success last fiscal year, reporting record new inventions and commercialization agreements with companies.

  2. August 8, 2025

    U-M startup HistoSonics announces $2.25B acquisition

    HistoSonics, a U-M startup founded in 2009, announced a $2.25 billion acquisition, joining a short list of companies stemming from the university that have reached billion-dollar status.

  3. January 22, 2025

    State to give U-M $10M to help develop new startups

    The university is poised to receive about $10 million in new state funding for research commercialization, as part of a package of bills recently signed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

  4. September 17, 2024

    Innovation Partnerships celebrates record‑breaking year

    Research led by U-M faculty members and researchers generated a record-breaking 615 new inventions during the 2023-24 fiscal year.

  5. December 14, 2023

    U-M startup blends art, stories to help health care workers

    ArtSpective, a new U-M startup that provides implicit bias training for health care workers, uses fine-art photographs and guided storytelling to improve patient-provider interactions.

  6. September 15, 2023

    Record number of U-M inventions reported in FY ’23

    Research led by U-M generated a record 580 new inventions last year, 145 new U.S. patents and more than 300 license and option agreements with industry, and launched 25 startup companies, in fiscal year 2023.

  7. January 30, 2023

    U-M startup joins White House partnership to remove lead pipes

    U-M startup BlueConduit, which helped accelerate the removal of dangerous lead pipes in Flint has joined a White House partnership aimed at replacing all of the nation’s lead service lines in a decade.

  8. April 19, 2021

    Venture fund reaches milestone, makes first investment

    The Accelerate Blue Fund, a U-M early-stage venture fund raised through philanthropy, has reached its first fundraising milestone and made its first investment in a U-M tech startup.

  9. September 17, 2020

    U-M to increase its capacity for asymptomatic COVID-19 testing

    The University Health Service will enter into an agreement with LynxDx Inc. to offer saliva-based COVID-19 diagnostic surveillance testing services on the Ann Arbor campus, giving U-M a testing capacity to up to 6,000 individuals per week.

  10. September 9, 2020

    U-M launches record number of startups, inventions in FY 2020

    U-M launched a record 31 startups in fiscal year 2020 and reported a rise in new inventions, with a record 522, during a period that included a pandemic and temporarily shuttered labs.