Ornicept is on the precipice of a big growth year. The Ann Arbor data-collection startup has already enjoyed a nice growth spurt over the last year but now has it sights set on even bigger things 2015.
Ornicept is projecting to grow four or five times its current size over the next year. The company currently stands at a staff of 10 employees after making two hires in business development and software. It also looking to hire another three people for senior positions right now.
"We're growing really fast," says Russell Conard, CEO of Ornicept. "I'm lucky to work with a really good team."
The 3-year-old company’s software platform that helps field workers log and manage data. That means everyone from wildlife biologists to infrastructure inspectors can input information into a mobile device and have it processed in a central computing source.
The technology was good enough to allow it to take first place in the IT category of last month's Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition in downtown Detroit. The $25,000 in prize money will be put toward Ornicept's Series A round, which will be worth seven figures and close on by next year.
"The round is going really well," Conard says.
Ornicept's current platform is full operational and being used by some large companies across the U.S.
"We have some of the biggest companies in the world relying on our platform," Conard says.
Source: Russell Conard, CEO of Ornicept
Writer: Jon Zemke
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