U-M students spin out Shepherd Intelligent Systems

Concentrate, 10/22/2009

The eggheads at the University of Michigan are spinning out another start-up from technology riding in Ann Arbor.

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How Shepherd Intelligent Systems got its start is the way that University of Michigan officials anticipate a lot of future start-ups will launch.

The 5-month-old U-M spin-off began as the project of U-M engineering student Jahan Khanna. He was creating software that gives riders the real-time position of university buses and realized it had broad commercial potential. So Jahan teamed up with U-M MBA student Adrian Fortino to start the firm, which now employs four people downtown.

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