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| Dec 16, 2025 | 2025 highlights from the startup ecosystem | 2025 was marked by steady, strategic progress for the Milwaukee 7 startup community as institutions, founders and industry partners worked together to expand opportunity and capitalize on regional innovations.
In June, the region made a bol... |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Startup helps life science PhDs navigate career paths | When Dr. Gary Mouradian, an assistant professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin, began his own career in the life sciences, he had one certainty: he loved science. What he didn’t have was clarity about what to do with his PhD.
“I really... |
| Nov 11, 2025 | Property Deals aims to bring clarity and trust to wholesale real estate | Co-founders Jack Savage and Ali Mortada met while attending University School of Milwaukee. The pair reconnected in early 2024 when both were looking for ways to pursue entrepreneurship. They first launched a small marketing and web develop... |
| Nov 10, 2025 | FOR-M Founder Showcase highlights emerging startups | The MKE Tech Hub Coalition will host its FOR-M Founder Showcase on Nov. 12 at the Wantable Cafe in Milwaukee. The event will highlight participants from the program’s summer and fall cohorts, Cycles 13 and 14, and give attendees the opportu... |
| Jul 29, 2025 | Beyond the grants: early data from FOR-M program | The FOR-M startup incubator has now awarded more than half a million dollars to Wisconsin startup founders. To assess the outcomes of this milestone, MKEStartup.News conducted an analysis of recipient companies.
Launched in 2019 and now ope... |
| Jul 23, 2025 | FOR-M alum Law LM builds legal AI platform | Milwaukee-based legal tech startup Law LM is building a tool to help litigators make better use of their evidence.
Founded in late 2024 by trial attorney Michael D. Aiken, MSOE professor Derek Riley, and a third silent partner, Law LM is fo... |
| Jul 9, 2025 | Emerging businesses shine at the FOR-M Founder Showcase | At the July 9 FOR-M Founder Showcase, held at Wantable Café in Milwaukee, six early-stage entrepreneurs received a boost to grow their emerging tech businesses. The MKE Tech Hub awarded $10,000 grants to six graduates of the FOR-M program, ... |
| Jan 29, 2025 | HypeUp makes attendees part of the show | Peter Smith, founder of Milwaukee-based Neon Labs, is making waves in the live events industry with his innovative product, HypeUp. Designed to elevate the attendee experience, HypeUp transforms crowds into synchronized light displays using... |
| Jan 15, 2025 | UNYTUS launches MVP | Jit Sihra believes character education is an essential part of the educational experience. When she started exploring how key character traits like honesty and patience were taught in schools, she discovered there was no standard curriculum... |
| Nov 19, 2024 | FOR-M graduates 10th cohort | MKE Tech Hub Coalition’s FOR-M Founders’ Showcase celebrated to completion of its 10 cohort and the Milwaukee startup ecosystem came to Ward4 to celebrate with them.
Program leaders Joe Poeschl of MKE Tech Hub Coalition and Maggie Fernandes... |
| Sep 18, 2024 | MKE Tech Hub supports startups with loan program | Less than 1% of all U.S.-based startups receive venture capital funds.
Despite the focus on raising venture funds in the startup ecosystem, most founders rely on other forms of financing or bootstrapping to launch their companies.
MKE Tech ... |
| Sep 3, 2024 | FOR-M Tech Startup Incubator Launches 10th Cohort as It Marks Its 5th Year | This fall, MKE Tech Hub Coalition’s FOR-M Tech Startup Incubator is celebrating a significant milestone as it kicks off its 10th cohort on September 16th. Established in the fall of 2019, the incubator program has played a crucial role in f... |
| Aug 27, 2024 | StayThanks: a tech startup that celebrates Milwaukee | For many, the success of a business is a source of inspiration, but for Naveen Kankate, it was the failure of a business that inspired him to launch his startup.
The turning point came when Hangout MKE, a lower Eastside café and activity ce... |
| Aug 13, 2024 | Technova Industries: From FOR-M to the frontier of security technology | The Milwaukee startup ecosystem was introduced to Technova Industries when the security technology company participated in MKE Tech Hub Coalition’s FOR-M startup incubator. The Madison-based company was awarded a $10,000 grant at the close ... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | FOR-M Founder Showcase Highlights Emerging Businesses | On Monday, May 13, 2024, the entrepreneurial community will converge at Ward4 for the FOR-M Founder Showcase Spring 2024. The event will showcase the innovation and creativity of 24 emerging businesses from Southeastern Wisconsin and beyond... |
| Feb 26, 2024 | Davis named MKE Tech Hub Director of Content | The MKE Tech Hub Coalition recently announced that Antonio L. David Jr. has been named the organization’s Director of Content.
Davis joined the organization in May 2022 and is a well-known figure in the Hour of Tech and FUSE programs.
The... |
| Feb 1, 2024 | Poeschl joins MKE Tech Hub | The MKE Tech Hub Coalition announced that Joe Poeschl has joined the organization as its Director of Engagement.
The non-profit organization was formed in October 2019 by a group of local businesses focused on advancing technology and inno... |
| Nov 14, 2023 | FOR-M Founder Showcase | On Nov. 13, the Milwaukee startup ecosystem gathered at Ward4 for the FOR-M Founder Showcase. The program, funded by the MKE Tech Hub Coalition, celebrated the graduation of its fall cohort and honored past graduates with grants. |
| Nov 13, 2023 | Spotted: MKE Tech Hub presents Tom Davenport | In honor of MKE Tech Hub Coalition’s fourth anniversary, noted AI expert Tom Davenport presented from his best-selling book, All in on AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence, to a rapt audience at Northwestern Mutual h... |
| Oct 30, 2023 | Ian Hathaway meets MKE startup ecosystem | Last week, NVNG Investment Advisors, along with the MKE Tech Hub Coalition with Godfrey and Khan welcomed author, founder, and investor Ian Hathaway to Milwaukee. Hathaway met with members of the city’s startup ecosystem, including establis... |
| Oct 18, 2023 | Local startup leaders discuss setbacks on the road to success | Bill Gates once said, “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” The Startup Horror Stories Halloween Event, hosted by Ward4 and MKE Tech Hub Coalition aims to help the Milwaukee startup ecosys... |
| May 1, 2023 | Kids in Combat Boots serves military kids | When Deanne Herber and her daughters started a podcast in 2020, they had the modest goal of amusing family and friends with stories about their life as a military family.
Quickly, they discovered that military families around the globe wer... |
| Nov 15, 2022 | Spotted: FOR-M Founder’s Showcase | Founders, funders, and Milwaukee startup supporters gathered at Wantable Café for a first look at a number of FOR-M graduates on Monday, November 14.
FOR-M is an initiative of the Milwaukee Tech Hub Coalition to support and grow Milwaukee’... |
| Nov 3, 2022 | Local HealthTech startups shine | Will the next big thing in healthcare be created in Milwaukee?
Local innovators are counting on it.
Area academic research institutions have united to advance the development of drugs, devices, HealthTech software and new clinical deliver... |
| Oct 3, 2022 | Milwaukee Tech Week October 3-7 | On September 7, 2021, Governor Tony Evers proclaimed October to be Wisconsin Tech Month throughout the state. Milwaukee will kick off this celebration on Monday, October 3 with the start of Milwaukee Tech Week.
Hosted by MKE Tech Hub Coali... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | Free Music Land empowers musicians | Milwaukee native Ian McCullough is the creative entrepreneur behind Free Music Land, a peer-to-peer music licensing platform. The company was one of the eight Milwaukee-area startups to receive a $10,000 grant through the MKE Tech Hub Coali... |
| Sep 16, 2022 | TGIF: This week in startup success | It’s Friday, finally! Time to catch up on some of the good things happening in our great city’s startup and entrepreneurship scene. Below is a list of click-worthy articles that will end your week with a smile. If you have some startup ecos... |
| Aug 4, 2022 | FOR-M seeks early-stage tech founders | The Milwaukee Tech Hub Coalition is seeking applications for the fall cohort of the FOR-M Incubator.
The free program is seeking emerging and early-stage startup founders who are looking to develop their technology-based business ideas. Th... |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Spotted: Summerfest Tech Day One | The fifth annual Summerfest Tech event kicked off this morning at St. Kate- The Arts Hotel. Kathy Henrichs, CEO of MKE Tech Hub Coalition, welcomed attendees to the two day event and introduced the keynote speaker, Chuck Swoboda, the Innova... |
| Jun 28, 2022 | Spotted: MOR Networking Edition | Marshalling Our Resources (MOR), a collation of organizations dedicated to advancing entrepreneurship in Wisconsin, hosted its first networking event on June 27.
The Sherman Phoenix was the location of MOR’s first speed-networking event. B... |
| Jun 16, 2022 | MKE Tech Hub receives grant for IT training | The Department of Workforce Development has awarded an information technology sector grant of $398,840 to the MKE Tech Hub Coalition. Formed in 2019 to inclusively double the region’s tech talent, the Milwaukee-based, nonprofit organization... |
| Feb 11, 2022 | TGIF (Thank Goodness It’s Funded): This week in MKE startup success | It’s Friday, finally! Time to catch up on some of the good things happening in our great city’s startup and entrepreneurship scene. Below is a list of click-worthy articles that will end your week with a smile. If you have some startup ecos... |
| Feb 4, 2022 | TGIF (Thank Goodness It’s Funded): This week in MKE startup success | It’s Friday, finally! Time to catch up on some of the good things happening in our great city’s startup and entrepreneurship scene. Below is a list of click-worthy articles that will end your week with a smile. If you have some startup ecos... |
| Dec 17, 2021 | TGIF (Thank Goodness It’s Funded): This week in MKE startup success | It’s Friday, finally! Time to catch up on some of the good things happening in our great city’s startup and entrepreneurship scene. Below is a list of click-worthy articles that will end your week with a smile. If you have some good startup... |
| Dec 13, 2021 | Upwardli on the rise | What’s Milwaukee got that Seattle doesn’t? If you are Aaron Gregory, the answer is in-laws. The serial entrepreneur packed up his family of six and headed to Cream City during the pandemic to be closer to his wife, Katherine’s, family, but ... |
| Dec 8, 2021 | How to fix a fragmented startup community? Here’s what a Rust Belt city’s stalwart organizer says | Matt Cordio’s entrée into the startup tech scene happened like so many others: in college over a beer.
After participating in an incubator program at Marquette University, the young founder began searching for new avenues to cultivate his e... |
| Dec 6, 2021 | Pythonic Corporation: Artificial intelligence that works | Serial entrepreneur Matt Younkle is driven by an intense curiosity and a passion for learning. Describing himself as an “engineer at heart,” he spent his childhood poring over volumes of How Stuff Works. With a goal to learn something new e... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | Milwaukee’s tech scene is still young. Its growth will depend on collaboration and ‘getting people to buy into a vision’ | Editor’s note: This story appears via This Week in Milwaukee Rising, a weekly newsletter from Technical.ly that highlights the innovators bringing a more just, equitable and dynamic Milwaukee economy. Subscribe here to follow civic-minded n... |
| Oct 29, 2021 | TGIF (Thank Goodness It’s Funded): This week in MKE startup success | It’s Friday, finally! Time to catch up on some of the good things happening in our great city’s startup and entrepreneurship scene. Below is a list of click-worthy articles that will end your week with a smile. If you have some good startup... |
| Oct 20, 2021 | Associated Banc : MKE Tech Hub Coalition Launches Second Apprentice Cohort with Milwaukee-Area Employers | Milwaukee Area Employers Embrace Tech Apprenticeship to Expand Talent Networks and Increase Opportunities for Job Seekers
View the story in the Milwaukee Business Journal
MILWAUKEE (October 11, 2021) - As employers across the country look t... |
| Jul 3, 2019 | WI Watchlist: Microsoft, Exact Sciences, Shine & MKE Tech Hub | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 7/3/19, 2:25 pm CT. See below.] Before everyone checks out for the Fourth of July holiday, let’s catch up on some recent Wisconsin innovation news:
—Shine Medical Tec... |
