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Innovation has slowed in the U.S., stymying economic growth. To get back on track, the U.S. needs more low-income children, women, and minorities to become inventors — but that won’t be easy. Innovation fueled economic growth in America for the past century, but since...
Reported state, Foxconn deal good step for Wisconsin
It is encouraging that negotiations between the state of Wisconsin and Foxconn have taken a positive turn and a new agreement related to company performance and tax credits is under consideration, Tech Council President Tom Still said Monday. If such an agreement is...
eix: Jon Eckhardt talks with Wes Schroll, CEO of Fetch Rewards, Softbank’s latest Unicorn
Download PDF On April 1, Madison, Wisconsin-based company Fetch Rewards became a unicorn, with a $210 million investment round lead by SoftBank VisionFund 2. EIX Editor in Chief Jon Eckhardt interviewed the company's founder, Wes Schroll, on how he built Fetch...
WPR: Evers, Foxconn Reach New Agreement Lowering Burden On Taxpayers
WEDC must approve agreement that scales down project, includes fewer tax incentives Foxconn Technology Group has reached a new deal, with reduced tax incentives, for its scaled back project in Racine County, Gov. Tony Evers and the company announced Monday. The...
TIME: Inside the Facilities Making the World’s Most Prevalent COVID-19 Vaccine
If you've been vaccinated for COVID-19, chances are pretty high that you’re benefiting from a product made by BioNTech. The German biotech company, co-founded by a husband-and-wife team of scientists, developed the vaccine that became not only the first to earn...
Wisconsin State Journal: MilliporeSigma expanding pharmaceutical production facility in Verona
Life sciences company MilliporeSigma plans to create 50 new jobs starting this year as it builds a $65 million expansion to its Verona facility. The 70,000-square-foot facility will expand production of active pharmaceutical ingredients at the Verona location of the...
Wisconsin State Journal: Let schools start when they want
More students are failing and disengaged because of online classes during the pandemic. That’s what the data from more than a dozen school districts across Dane County shows, according to a recent State Journal report by Chris Rickert. It’s not surprising, given the...
Wisconsin State Journal: Madison company trying to develop gene therapy for type 1 diabetes
A Madison company started by a UW Health transplant surgeon aims to develop a gene therapy for type 1 diabetes, with the goal of regulating glucose metabolism without the need for daily insulin shots. Endsulin’s experimental DNA injection is being tested in naturally...
Wisconsin State Journal: Findorff gets first F-35 contract to construct flight simulator facility at Truax
The Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing has awarded the first of many building contracts to a local construction company in anticipation of basing a squadron of F-35 fighter jets at Truax Field in Madison. J.H. Findorff & Son was awarded the contract...
‘Dealing with China’ will launch series on trade policy with WisBusiness.com
“Dealing with China,” a panel discussion on U.S.-China relations under the Biden administration, will be held virtually from noon to 1 p.m., Tuesday, April 27. It is being produced by WisBusiness.com in partnership with the Wisconsin Technology Council. Participants...
Crunchbase: Medable Secures $78M Series C Extension To Scale Digital Clinical Trials Program
Clinical trials research company Medable brought in its third round of funding in the past year, this time a $78 million extension to its $91 million Series C round announced last November. “This new round was really an insider round,” Medable co-founder and...
Guest column: Pandemic effect on tech jobs measured by Cyberstates report
By Kathy Henrich Data always has a purpose. It helps measure our past, understand the effect of unexpected forces, and set direction for the future. Measuring the impact of technology in 2020 was especially important, especially in light of the headwinds of a global...
InsideWis: Attracting ‘OPM’ from elsewhere will help Wisconsin companies grow
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Cultured Decadence may sound like a societal dilemma, but it’s precisely the opposite. It’s a young company offering a timely solution – all the while demonstrating how emerging companies in Wisconsin can attract investors from elsewhere....
WEDC: Wisconsin’s emerging investors: advice to early-stage startups
Being an entrepreneur means asking for money—and it takes some skill to know how to make the ask. We spoke with some of Wisconsin’s emerging venture capital investors about what startups seeking early-stage investment should keep in mind when honing their elevator...
She Conquers Capital: Samara Mejia Hernandez, Chingona Ventures, talks deal flow, FemTech, and all things LatinX in VC
Wisconsin State Journal: Fetch shows potential for high-growth technology companies in Wisconsin
By Scott Resnick Fetch Rewards has delivered to Madison its first unicorn — and, at least as important, lessons for how to achieve more high-growth startup companies. A “unicorn” in the technology sector is a venture-backed startup with a valuation of $1 billion or...
WisBusiness: Broad backing for broadband
GOP and Dem Joint Finance Committee members agree that a big investment in broadband is needed in rural areas. But that was the extent of agreement. During a Milwaukee business panel, Joint Committee on Finance members Evan Goyke, D-Milwaukee, and Jessie Rodriguez,...
Madison Rotary: Jason Fields’ “We Must Not Accept Complacency”
On an historic day, when the Club returned to the Park Hotel for the first time in more than a year of pandemic isolation, our speaker was fellow Rotarian Jason Fields. Jason is the new president of the Madison Regional Economic Partnership. He spoke on the topic “We...
UW–Madison: Alum’s mask makes Time magazine’s list of best inventions of 2020
While studying abroad in Singapore as a University of Wisconsin–Madison mechanical engineering undergraduate student in 2013, Max Bock-Aronson experienced heightened levels of air pollution firsthand. He also happened to be taking an engineering course on air...
WiSys: UW-Green Bay’s Kelly House wins campus research communication prize in WiSys Quick Pitch
UW-Green Bay’s Kelly House was recognized for excellence in research communication during the WiSys Quick Pitch on April 7. The student “pitch” competition inspires UW System students to consider the impact of their research and effectively communicate it to the...