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BACKSTITCH

LEVELELEVEN

Elevator Pitch: Internal business
platform that automatically delivers
the right information to the right team
members at the right time.
Founded: 2012
Co-Founder and CEO: Jordan Warzecha
Funding: >$500,000
Employees: 10+

Elevator Pitch: A sales management
system that reinforces behaviors that
help focus salespeople on closing
business.
Founded: 2012
CEO: Bob Marsh
Funding: >$9 million
Employees: 40+

BENZINGA

LUNAR LABS

Elevator Pitch: Financial news and
analysis service providing timely,
actionable insights for investors.
Founded: 2011
CEO: Jason Raznick
Funding: >$4 million
Employees: 40+

Elevator Pitch: A pay-as-you-go
Smartphone service that rids customers
of monthly wireless bills.
Founded: 2015
Co-Founders: Hunter Rosenblum, Rohith
Varanasi
Funding: >$1 million
Employees: 20+

QUIKLY

ROCKET FIBER

WAYMARK

Elevator Pitch: Speed. Service. Detroit.
Bringing 1,000x faster Internet and
world-class client care to the Motor City.
Founded: 2015
Co-Founder & COO: Edi Demaj
Funding: N/A
Employees: 50+

Elevator Pitch: Art meets technology
for smart and easy marketing tools for
small businesses. Enter a phone number
and a tech will create an original ad for
you in seconds.
Founded: 2012
CEO: Nathan Labenz
Funding: >$2 million
Employees: 20+

Funding: >$4 million
Employees: 30+

STOCKX

Elevator Pitch: Platform for buying and
selling authentic sneakers.
Founded: 2012
Funding: >$6 million
CEO: Josh Luber
Employees: 50+

Elevator Pitch: A digital marketing plat-
form that motivates consumers to react
… Quikly.
Founded: 2012
Co-Founder & CEO: Shawn Geller
Funding: >$5 million
Employees: 30+

BILLHIGHWAY

Elevator Pitch: Automating dues,
finances and fundraising for nonprofits
and associations.
Founded: 1999
Founder and CEO: Vince Thomas
Funding: Acquired BluePay
Employees: 50+

CASTLE

Elevator Pitch: Manages rental homes
for landlords using automation and
on-demand labor.
Founded: 2014
Co-Founder & CEO: Max Nussenbaum
Funding: >$2 million
Employees: 30+

SERVICE.COM

Elevator Pitch: A home service concierge
platform designed to help service pros
and consumers search, match, chat, hire
and pay.
Founded: 2013
Founder and CEO: Sandy Kronenberg

ANN ARBOR STARTUPS HIRING

growing companies and thousands of
organizations worldwide.
Founded: 2010
Founder and CEO: Dug Song
Funding: >$49 million
Employees: 450+

FARMLOGS

Elevator Pitch: Farm management soft-
ware designed to help run more effi-
cient, more profitable farms.
Founded: 2012
Co-Founder and CEO: Jesse Vollmar
Funding: >$35 million
Employees: 60+

NOTION, INC.

Elevator Pitch: Communications intel-
ligence company out to solve communi-
cations overload once and for all.
Founded: 2013
CEO: Guy Suter
Funding: >$10 million
Employees: 10+

NUTSHELL

Elevator Pitch: Beautiful CRM with real-
time feeds, native Android & iOS apps
and powerful reporting.
Founded: 2009
CEO: Joe Malcoun
Funding: >$1 million
Employees: 40+ •

DUO SECURITY

Elevator Pitch: Cloud-based access secu-
rity provider that protects the fastest-

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