Silicon Valley-based start-up Oomba has opened an office in downtown Ann Arbor, bring another four jobs and potentially more to Tree Town's central business district.
The 1-year-old is creating a digital object trading platform that communicates with the virtual goods databases of online and mobile games through a secure protocol. The 16-person firm has two other offices Boston and Atlanta. It currently employs four people at its Ann Arbor office and plans to grow its presence quickly.
"We're planning on hiring more," says William Farah, co-founder, senior vice president of business development and general counsel for
Oomba. "We'd like to have 10-12 to start with." he adds that he can foresee the local office growing to 20 people within a year or two.
Oomba's Ann Arbor office will handle the company's sales and some of its engineering/product development. Farah, who is based here, says the company choose Ann Arbor because of the area's deep talent pool and staked its flag in downtown so it could be in the mix of the community's growing entrepreneurial ecosystem.
"We thought it would be good to be in the middle of everything," Farah says. "Google is right up the street and there are a lot of little tech companies in the area."
Source: William Farah, co-founder, senior vice president of business development and general counsel for Oomba
Writer: Jon Zemke
Read more about Metro Detroit's growing entrepreneurial ecosystem at SEMichiganStartup.com.
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