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By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – The pandemic has shifted to a new phase; a divisive presidential election has put an entire nation on edge; and many businesses are struggling to hang on while waiting to see what shoe drops next. One choice is to count the days until 2020...
WKOW: Teel Plastics wins $6.8 million contract for COVID-19 test swabs
Click here to watch the WKOW news segment on-air. The federal government has given a Baraboo-based company a multimillion-dollar contract to produce swabs for COVID-19 testing. The Department of Defense, in coordination with the Department of Health and Human...
Fortune: Chelsea Clinton’s venture capital firm Metrodora ramps up – includes Milwaukee EdTech startup Fiveable
Just three months after news broke that Chelsea Clinton was considering forming a venture capital firm, that firm is not just up and running, but also quickly gaining momentum. On Tuesday, Metrodora Ventures, identified on its Twitter account as "a values-conscious...
Milwaukee Business Journal: Delafield data company Synthetaic raises $4.5M from investors, including TitletownTech
Synthetaic, a Delafield-based data technologies company, announced it has raised $4.5 million from private investors, including TtitletownTech, the $25 million venture fund created by the Green Bay Packers and Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corp. The round...
DataChat Closes $4 Million Seed Round to Accelerate the Democratization of Data Analytics
Madison-based startup looks to accelerate market launch of its Conversational Intelligence platform Madison, WI, October 20, 2020 – DataChat, Inc, a University of Wisconsin-Madison spinout with a sophisticated yet intuitive data analytics platform, today announced the...
EHRN: Trends in Overall and Non-COVID-19 Hospital Admissions
Approximately seven months after the coronavirus sparked social distancing measures and concerns about hospital capacity, new medical records data help shed light on the magnitude of the drop in hospital admissions and the more recent rebound in hospitalizations....
Wisconsin Partnership Program announces $6 million in community impact grant awards to health equity initiatives
Initiatives that address the health of Black men and women, prevent suicide among Wisconsin farmers and promote economic stability and restorative justice are among the six award recipients. Grants of $1 million each, over five years, support community-academic...
Can Wisconsin lead bio-industrial surge? Find out at 2020 Early Stage Symposium
A growing national network that could build on Wisconsin’s tradition of manufacturing, agricultural and nature resource excellence will be described during the 2020 Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium, to be held on a virtual platform Nov. 9-11. Registration is now open!...
Venture capital deals need to increase in Wisconsin. Revived association pushes to make it happen
The amount of venture capital dollars flowing through Wisconsin-based companies is significantly lower than those in neighboring states like Minnesota and Illinois, but a revived association is hoping to change that. The Wisconsin Venture Capital Association, started...
Returning military vets, students may register at discount to attend November Early Stage event
Armed services veterans who want to learn about trends that could affect how they finance and grow their businesses may register at a major discount to attend the virtual Wisconsin Early Stage Symposium, Nov. 10-11. Veterans from the post-9/11 era may attend the full...
Wisconsin State Journal: Rural Midwest hospitals struggling to handle virus surge
Rural Jerauld County in South Dakota didn’t see a single case of the coronavirus for more than two months stretching from June to August. But over the last two weeks, its rate of new cases per person soared to one of the highest in the nation. “All of a sudden it hit,...
WisBusiness: The Podcast with Vanessa Miller, Foley & Lardner
This week’s “WisBusiness: The Podcast” features Vanessa Miller, partner and co-chair of Foley & Lardner’s coronavirus task force and supply chain team. Miller also co-authored the firm’s recent supply chain disruption and strategies report. The report draws on...