Challenge: Elevating high-growth startup vision
In 2022, Detroit’s economic development efforts remained largely focused on legacy industries and supporting large corporations or small businesses. However, local stakeholders increasingly saw a missed opportunity: the potential of high-growth, high-tech startups to drive transformative economic outcomes.
While the region had already produced several notable startup successes, the ecosystem still needed a cohesive, founder-focused strategy to build on this momentum. Startup Genome was engaged to support the development of a unified agenda aimed at elevating Detroit’s startup ecosystem to new heights.