c.e.o. leslie smith says has only grown the activity that we're saying you know in the midtown and downtown is certainly exponentially different than it was three and five years ago in terms of the support for entrepreneurs the punning for entrepreneurs the opportunities for entrepreneurs to kind of grow in large businesses here it's a snapshot of a booming tech industry that's taking detroit by storm according to automation alys latest tech report the growth has been so large that the city is now starting to outpace multiple national tech hubs like boston chicago and even silicon valley perhaps the greatest symbol of detroit's tech renaissance in the madison building once a movie theater the fifty thousand square foot building is now home to over three hundred entrepreneurs and american investors investments are giving the city a huge boost but it's not just american entrepreneur. looking to detroit as fertile ground there's a whole host of foreign investors were banking on the city's potential case in point china so far over sixty chinese companies have put down roots in detroit investing