| Date | Title | Description |
| 21.10.2025 | WARF Board Welcomes New Trustee Judy Olian | Judy Olian MADISON, WI, UNITED STATES, October 21, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation is proud to announce the appointment of Judy D. Olian, a distinguished leader in higher education and management, to its ... |
| 24.09.2025 | Immuto Scientific Secures $8M, Unlocks New Era in Precision Drug Discovery | Immuto Scientific, a biotechnology pioneer, has significantly advanced its mission. The company closed an oversubscribed $8 million Seed 2 financing round. This critical capital fuels its proprietary AI-enabled structural surfaceomics platf... |
| 22.09.2025 | Immuto Scientific: $8 Million Raised For Advancing New Class Of Therapeutic Targets With Structural Surfaceomics | Immuto Scientific has closed an oversubscribed Seed 2 financing round, raising a total of $8 million. The company has also announced a collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo, a well-known global pharmaceutical company. Immuto is utilizing its un... |
| 18.09.2025 | Immuto Scientific Raises $8M in Seed 2 Financing | Immuto Scientific, a Madison, WI-based biotechnology company developing an AI‑enabled target discovery platform, raised $8M in Seed 2 funding.
The round was led by DYDX, with participation from WARF Ventures, Gravity Fund, Great Oaks Ventur... |
| 18.06.2025 | Strategic Governance Fuels WARF's Next Century of Innovation | As WARF marks its centennial, a new essay by Board Chair Deborah Keller and CEO Erik Iverson highlights how strategic governance has transformed the foundation’s Board into a driving force for innovation. MADISON, WI, UNITED STATES, June 18... |
| 03.06.2025 | Infleqtion's Quantum Leap: $100 Million to Revolutionize Technology | In the heart of Boulder, Colorado, a quantum revolution is brewing. Infleqtion, a company born from the academic halls of the University of Colorado, has just secured a staggering $100 million in Series C funding. This infusion of capital i... |
| 02.06.2025 | Quantum startup Infleqtion eyes defense industry applications after raising $100M
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| 02.06.2025 | Infleqtion closes $100M Series C round | Infleqtion, a quantum technology company that uses lasers to maintain those systems, has fetched roughly $100 million in Series C capital from investors to aid in the further development and scaling of its product offerings.
Founded as cold... |
| 31.03.2025 | Hubble Therapeutics: $7.3 Million (Series A) Raised For Developing Gene Therapy Cure For LCA16 | Hubble Therapeutics, a patient-focused biotechnology company developing a gene therapy to cure pediatric blindness, announced the closing of a $7.3 million Series A funding round, which will advance its lead candidate, HUB-101, into human c... |
| 26.03.2025 | Hubble Therapeutics: A New Dawn for Pediatric Blindness | In the world of biotechnology, every breakthrough feels like a ray of hope piercing through a dark cloud. Hubble Therapeutics, a Hanover, NH-based company, has recently secured $7.3 million in Series A funding. This financial boost is not j... |
| 25.03.2025 | Hubble Therapeutics Closes $7.3M Series A Financing | Hubble Therapeutics, a Hanover, NH-based patient-focused biotechnology company developing a gene therapy to cure pediatric blindness, raised $7.3M in Series A funding.
Backers were not disclosed.
The company intends to use the funds to adva... |
| 01.03.2023 | 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... |
| 14.10.2022 | Wisconsin-Japan Biohealth Summit showcases international collaboration | Guest post contributed by BioForward
Across the globe, life science technology advancements are accelerating to promote better health.
The recent Wisconsin-Japan Biohealth Summit, designed to raise awareness of current collaborations while ... |
| 25.10.2021 | WARF announces annual grant figures | $216.8 million in total support is largest ever
MADISON, Wis., Oct. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) today announced a total of $216.8 million in support for the University of Wisconsin-Madison resear... |
| 21.10.2020 | Data company spun from UW-Madison raises $4M from Silicon Valley investors | DataChat, a Madison company that developed an intelligence interface that allows business users to extract insight from their data simply by talking to a chatbot, has raised $4 million to build its team and customer base, the company announ... |
| 10.05.2019 | Why Investors Are Turning to the Midwest—and How to Keep them Coming | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
For decades, venture capital investors have targeted the East and West coasts to find and fund their next big startup growth company. The result? Two thirds of VC deals and do... |
| 12.10.2018 | Ahead of WARF Keynote, Gigaom’s Reese Talks Academia’s Startup Push | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Byron Reese, the Gigaom publisher and successful entrepreneur who has written extensively on how technology impacts society, says he believes the biggest future breakthroughs ... |
| 13.03.2018 | Johnson Controls, Dohmen, PerBlue & 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:
—Johnson Controls International (NYSE: JCI) said it’s considering selling its Power Sol... |
| 08.02.2018 | 4490 Ventures Raises $49M Fund to Support Startups in Midwest | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
4490 Ventures, a Madison, WI-based venture capital firm that supports startups in the Midwest, has raised $49 million for its second fund, according to a document filed with f... |
| 02.02.2018 | Electric Harley, Ab E, D2P, & More: This Week’s Wisconsin Watchlist | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
During a ceremony held at dawn on Friday in Sun Prairie, WI, Jimmy the Groundhog saw his shadow, which according to Groundhog Day lore means Wisconsin will not be having an ea... |
| 20.10.2017 | 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... |
| 23.08.2017 | WARF’s Erik Iverson Announces New VC Funds, Therapeutics Program | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s tech transfer office plans to invest $60 million in startups affiliated with the school over the next eight years and has launched a sepa... |
| 09.06.2017 | Exact, WARF, Murfie, Microbes, & More: This Week’s WI 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.
—Madison-based Exact Sciences (NASDAQ: EXAS), whose flagship product is a stool... |
| 07.04.2017 | Lucigen, EnsoData, Rowheels, & 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, starting with these recent headlines:
—Middleton-based Lucigen, which makes tools for life sciences researc... |
| 21.02.2017 | Gener8tor, ParqEx, 4490, RPRD, & 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:
—Gener8tor, a startup accelerator that has held programs in Wisconsin and Minnesota, has na... |
| 25.01.2017 | 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 ... |
| 06.04.2016 | Latest gBETA Class Unveiled, Suggests Ties With WARF Are Solidifying | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In November, the startup accelerator Gener8tor announced a partnership with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which manages patents and licensing of intellectual prope... |
| 24.03.2016 | Former Gates Foundation Lawyer Tapped As WARF’s New Managing Director | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Erik Iverson, an attorney whose career stops include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been named the next managing director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Founda... |
| 02.11.2015 | Looking to Spur Startups, UW’s Patent Office Partners with Gener8tor | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
gBETA, a free, six-week accelerator for early-stage companies affiliated with colleges and universities in Wisconsin, now has a second powerful backer.
On Monday Gener8tor, th... |
| 15.10.2015 | University of Wisconsin versus Apple. Should universities resort to patent trolling? | A US federal court has found that Apple infringed a patent held by the patenting arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The patent describes a mechanism that could be used in speeding up processors and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Fou... |
| 25.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 25, 2015 | Coursera raised $49.5M; BlueData Landed $20M; Simility secured $3.45M
As we have seen so many times in recent years, with hacks on Target, Sony and the U.S. government, and now most recently on Ashley Madison, Internet security is more impo... |
| 15.07.2015 | Madison’s “Sand Hill Building”: Four Venture Funds Together Under One Roof | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Going purely by the numbers, Wisconsin is hardly an ideal place for startups seeking investment.
According to the 2015 National Venture Capital Association Yearbook, companies... |
| 21.08.2014 | Tissue Regeneration Systems to Collaborate with J&J, DePuy Synthes | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Earlier this summer, Johnson & Johnson Innovation and DePuy Synthes Products announced a new collaboration with Plymouth, MI-based Tissue Regeneration Systems (TRS) to hel... |
| 11.04.2014 | D2P’s Biondi On Getting UW-Madison More for its ($1.2B) R&D Money | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Corrected 12/17/15, 11:34 a.m. See below.] University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of the top-spending schools when it comes to research, but university administrators think i... |
| 17.12.2013 | SWIB, WARF Narrow Search for Investment Manager at 4490 Ventures | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
By the time the champagne begins to flow on New Year’s Eve, tech entrepreneurs in Wisconsin may know who they should pitch if they want an investment from 4490 Ventures, the s... |
| 29.04.2013 | Q&A: Seasoned Healthcare Executive Discusses Key Drivers of Innovation | As an Operating Partner with Baird Capital, Fred Robertson works with the Venture team to source and evaluate new investment opportunities and contribute his operating experience to portfolio companies. Prior to joining Baird Capital, Rober... |
| 21.03.2013 | Early-Stage Venture Capital Fund Launches to Back Wisconsin Startups | The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) and Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) are launching a $30m early-stage venture capital fund.
Capitalized jointly by SWIB and WARF, 4490 Ventures will focus on information technology f... |
| 14.01.2013 | Non-Profit Innovation: How Minerva Plans To Make Its Affordable, Next-Gen University A Reality | The Minerva Project burst onto the scene last year with an ambitious goal: To create the next elite American university, online, and, in so doing, help rethink the role of higher education in the Digital Era. Not only that, but the startup ... |
| 04.01.2013 | StudyBlue Raises $9M in Series A-1 Funding | StudyBlue, a Madison, WI-based mobile and social study platform, has raised $9m in Series A-1 funding.
The round was led by Great Oaks Venture Capital, with participation from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and existing inv... |
| 28.01.2010 | Cellular Dynamics of Wisconsin raises $31M for pluripotent stem-cell technology | Promoted
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| 23.12.2009 | Athersys therapy ‘good fit’ for Pfizer Regenerative Medicine, says chief scientific officer | On Monday, the Pfizer unit struck a development and commercialization agreement with Athersys Inc., the Cleveland biopharmaceutical company. Pfizer plans to develop and market a therapy for sufferers of inflammatory bowel disease based on M... |
| 09.05.2007 | TomoTherapy, cancer-treatment system maker, gets enthusiastic IPO reception | TomoTherapy, a Madison, Wis.-based maker of imaging and radiation-treatment systems for cancer therapy, raised $222.3 million in an initial offering after its shares priced higher than the company’s original range.
TomoTherapy shares, which... |
| 03.04.2007 | Chinks in the stem-cell monopoly | The U.S. patent office has invalidated some key stem-cell patents, a significant move that could shake up a potentially huge market for embryonic stem-cell therapies that may one day restore all kinds of body parts for the sick and injured.... |
| 03.04.2007 | Chinks in the stem-cell monopoly | (Note: This item has been copied over to the Life Sciences page from its original location on the VentureBeat main page. To view it in its original context, with comments, click here.)
The U.S. patent office has invalidated some key stem-ce... |
| - | Cellular Dynamics of Wisconsin raises $31M for pluripotent stem-cell technology | MADISON, Wisconsin — Stem cell company Cellular Dynamics International Inc. has received a $31 million investment, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The company specializes in pluripotent stem cells, which c... |
| - | Athersys therapy ‘good fit’ for Pfizer Regenerative Medicine, says chief scientific officer | CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ruth McKernan helped start Pfizer Regenerative Medicine — a research-oriented business unit of Pfizer, which calls itself the world’s largest research-based pharmaceutical company — in July 2008.
“We see regenerative medic... |
