Mobatech begins hiring at Ann Arbor SPARK Central

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 | Source: Concentrate

Creating a iPhone application is so common these days it's almost cliché. But Ann Arbor's Mobatech thinks it has the experience and the skills to help make its applications stand out from the 75,000 others in Apple's App Store.

"Everybody from your brother, sister and grandmother is creating mobile applications today," says Greg Schwartz, founder and CEO of Mobatech.

Schwartz founded the firm in 2003 in Ann Arbor. He started with making a checkbook application for smart phones before everyone and their extended family began writing code for mobile applications.

"When I started it was all about the web," Schwartz says. "By the time I graduated (from the University of Michigan) the bubble had burst and I had moved to mobile phones."

Schwartz kept Mobatech as a side gig when he worked in New York City, but made it his full-time job two years ago when he moved back to Tree Town. Today he employs five people and four summer interns from Ann Arbor SPARK's Central Incubator in downtown Ann Arbor. He hopes to hire 3-5 people within the next year.

"We're definitely trying to build out the team," Schwartz says.

Mobatech has concentrated on the Blackberry app market so far, which has helped it pump its revenues up to 300 percent in the last year. It expects to start putting out iPhone apps by the end of the year.

Source: Greg Schwartz, founder and CEO of Mobatech
Writer: Jon Zemke