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| Mar 1, 2023 | 49 entries advance in 2023 Wisconsin Governor’s BPC | MADISON, Wis. – Forty-nine entries from 25 different municipalities have advanced to the semi-final round of the 20th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest, contest producers announced.
Contestants emerged in first-round compet... |
| Jan 26, 2022 | Retham Technologies: Rapid results save lives | Every day, five Americans die from an adverse reaction to a drug, heparin that is commonly used to prevent and treat blood clots.
Retham Technologies plans to significantly lower that number.
Chemist Curtis Jones has a passion for researc... |
| Sep 6, 2018 | Forward Bio Initiative Launches with $750K Grant from WI Jobs Agency | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. (WEDC) said Thursday that it has awarded $750,000 in grant funding to help launch a new biomanufacturing collaboration that aims to pr... |
| Jan 26, 2018 | Exact Sciences, Generic Drugs, WEDC & More: This Week’s WI Watchlist | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Catch up on news from Wisconsin’s innovation community with these recent headlines:
—Citron Research published its second report in the past 12 months arguing that prospective... |
| Nov 1, 2017 | WEDC, 3 Nonprofits to Invest $1M in Wisconsin-based Tech Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. (WEDC) says it’s teaming up with three nonprofits on an initiative that will invest $1 million in early-stage technology businesses in... |
| Oct 20, 2017 | TAI Diagnostics, RPRD, Wellbe, & More: This Week’s WI Watchlist | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Stay current on the latest news from Wisconsin’s innovation community with these recent headlines:
—TAI Diagnostics, a Wauwatosa-based startup seeking to commercialize a non-i... |
| Aug 25, 2017 | Smart Choice, Foxconn, JCI, Generac & More: This Week’s WI Watchlist | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Stay current on news from Wisconsin’s innovation community with these recent headlines:
—Smart Choice MRI, which is based in Chicago but has roots and dozens of employees in t... |
| Jan 25, 2017 | WEDC Awards $500K As Part Of Entrepreneurship Support Program | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. (WEDC) said this week that it gave grants worth a combined $500,000 to 11 nonprofits based in the state as part of a program aimed at ... |
| Oct 31, 2016 | Isomark, gBETA, Gregor, & More: This Week’s Wisconsin Watchlist | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Keep up with the latest news from Wisconsin’s innovation community with these recent headlines:
—Members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s football team are using a dev... |
| Sep 2, 2016 | Stratatech, Immucor, Tech Canary, & More: This Week’s WI Watchlist | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Stay current on the latest news from Wisconsin’s innovation community, starting with these recent headlines:
—Mallinckrodt finalized its acquisition of Madison-based Stratatec... |
| Aug 2, 2016 | Astronautics, WARF, & The Commons: This Week’s Wisconsin Watchlist | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Stay current on happenings in Wisconsin’s innovation community with these recent headlines:
—A group that includes the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. (WEDC) and aviation... |
| Jun 17, 2016 | Tax Credits, Remedy Analytics, & Fiserv: This Week’s WI Watchlist | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Catch up on the latest news from the Badger State’s innovation community with these recent headlines:
—Wisconsin lawmakers voted to move $8 million in tax credits out of a poo... |
| Feb 17, 2016 | In Return to Roots, Understory Raises $7.5M & Relocates HQ to WI | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Understory is coming home to Wisconsin with $7.5 million in tow.
The weather technology startup, formerly known as Subsidence, was founded in Madison, WI, in 2012 and went thr... |
| Oct 19, 2015 | Wisconsin, Marquette University Launches Enterprise Seed Fund | A new program administered by Milwaukee-based Marquette University and funded by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) has been launched to fund student- and faculty-led entrepreneurial efforts.
The Marquette Enterprise Seed... |
| Oct 16, 2015 | Marquette’s New Seed Fund Underscores Entrepreneurship Push | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Only time will tell if Mike Lovell can help turn Marquette University into an engine for entrepreneurship, but he certainly hasn’t been resting on his laurels.
When Lovell was... |
| Sep 21, 2015 | WEDC Early-Stage Investment Program Awarded $18M in Last Fiscal Year | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Nearly $18 million was awarded to 25 Wisconsin companies during the 2015 fiscal year as part of a program designed to incentivize investment in early-stage tech startups, acco... |
| Aug 13, 2015 | Wisconsin Roundup: Johnson Controls, BrightStar, Orbitec, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here are some of the past week’s major headlines from Wisconsin’s tech and innovation community:
—The BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation announced investments in five companies a... |
| Mar 25, 2015 | Wisconsin Roundup: Fetch Rewards, Scale Up Milwaukee, MobCraft, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here’s a collection of recent headlines in Wisconsin’s tech and innovation community:
—Microscopy Innovations, a Marshfield-based company that makes tools for microscopy labs,... |
| Jan 19, 2015 | Nonprofit Investor BrightStar Herds Startup Deals, Seeks More Donors | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Some dealmakers weren’t sure what to expect from BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation when the nonprofit, which invests donations into Badger State startups, came onto the scene in... |
| Dec 17, 2014 | SmartUQ Raises $1.8M For Simulation Analytics Software | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
SmartUQ, a Madison, WI-based startup that has developed software to speed up the design of a variety of products, has raised nearly $1.8 million in seed funding, according to ... |
| Dec 10, 2014 | Wisconsin Roundup: StudyBlue, Cellectar, 1 Million Cups, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here are a few of the latest headlines in Wisconsin’s tech and innovation community:
—Madison-based edtech startup StudyBlue tacked on about $438,000 to a funding round report... |
| Dec 3, 2014 | Milwaukee Energy Incubator Channels Manufacturing Past to Power Future | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Milwaukee has made efforts over the past several years to establish itself as a global hub for water technology, a push that gained momentum last year with the opening of The ... |
| Oct 20, 2014 | Post-MassChallenge, Healthtech Startup ConsortiEX Growing in WI | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Consolidation is the name of the game these days in the healthcare industry, as hospitals, clinics, and private physician groups across the country are increasingly teaming up... |
| Aug 13, 2014 | The Fallout From Aver Informatics’ Reported Move from WI to OH | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 8/13/14, 12:35 p.m.] Aver Informatics’ reported move from Green Bay, WI, to Columbus, OH, could have financial and reputational ramifications for the healthtech start... |
| Aug 5, 2014 | Wisconsin Roundup: Uber, Lovell, BrightStar, Energy Incubator & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here are a few notable recent happenings in Wisconsin’s tech and innovation community:
—Controversial startups Uber and Lyft have gone legit in Milwaukee, after Mayor Tom Barr... |
| Jun 26, 2014 | New $1M seed fund puts money behind startups using Alzheimer’s biomarker research | The impetus for launching the fund with an Alzheimer’s focus is UW’s robust longitudinal data on the disease: The Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute has tracked the genetics and clinical presentation of the disease among more than 1,500 indivi... |
| May 27, 2014 | Wisconsin Roundup: Ideadvance, MiKE, Fontarome Chemical, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s coming down to the wire for the Wisconsin startups competing in the Governor’s Business Plan Contest. A group of 12 early-stage companies born at Wisconsin public univers... |
| May 9, 2014 | Wisconsin Roundup: BrightStar, Propeller Health, JCI R&D lab, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here’s a few news items from Wisconsin’s innovation and tech community that you might have missed this week:
—BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation announced its next round of inves... |
| May 5, 2014 | Wisconsin Roundup: Wozniak, Bridge to Cures, Isomark | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Here are a few recent notable announcements from Wisconsin’s tech and innovation community:
—Madison, WI-based Isomark said it received a $150,000 investment from the Wisconsi... |
| New $1M seed fund puts money behind startups using Alzheimer’s biomarker research | A $1 million seed fund is being launched at the University of Wisconsin, with an initial aim of nudging its Alzheimer’s disease research a little closer to the bedside.
Half the seed funding comes from donations to the Wisconsin Technology ... |
