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"As soon as they see it operating they see the value in it," says MJ Cartwright, CEO of Court Innovations. "They really get it and want to start using it."

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DeNovo Sciences has come a long way in its first five years, but the Plymouth-based startup can point to one critical juncture in its rapid growth: winning the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition in 2011. That win is why DeNovo Sciences is one of the Gazelle 100, a year-long exploration of the fastest-growing startups in Metro Detroit as part of SEMichiganStartup's Year of the Gazelle series.

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Christine Gibbons is the CEO of Histosonics, a life sciences startup based in Ann Arbor.

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Pedro Guillen is the CEO of Detroit Materials, a startup that is commercializing an allow that would create a stronger and lighter steel.

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James Koziarz is the president & CEO of Rubicon Genomics, a genetic testing startup based in Ann Arbor.

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James Arps is the general manager of Biotectix, a bio-tech start-up based in Ann Arbor.

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Yating Hu is a co-founder of PiezoPowerTech, a clean-energy start-up based in Detroit.

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Laura Schrader is the CEO of 3-D Biomatrix, a University of Michigan spin-out based in Ann Arbor.

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Martin Bluth is the co-founder of Genome Dynamics International, a life sciences start-up based in TechTown.

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Alok Sharma and Matt Dobson are the co-founders of Study Cache, a software start-up based in Detroit.

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Tom Gross is the CEO of Fusion Coolant Systems, a green-tech start-up based in Ypsilanti.

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Jim Adox is the co-founder of Venture Investors, a venture capital firm with an office in downtown Ann Arbor.

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Rob Malan is the CTO of Arbor Networks, an IT security start-up that was founded in Ann Arbor.

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David Bloom is the vice president of products with Hygieia, a medical device start-up based in Ann Arbor.

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Bill Greenway is the CEO of Delphinus Medical Technologies, a medical device start-up based in Plymouth.

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