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By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – An enduring strength of the American education system is local control. While President Trump may fume about cutting off federal support for schools if they don’t open this fall, he cannot unilaterally deny such aid and it wouldn’t...
WisconsinINNO: Wisconsin investing data startup lands $100K
A new Wisconsin startup is building a platform of data tools to help investors make higher returns. Quiver, founded in Spring Green by twin brother James and Chris Kardatzke, is an investment research platform that gives retail investors free access to alternative...
BusinessWire: Propeller Health Sensor to Be Co-Packaged With Recently Approved Enerzair® Breezhaler® Asthma Medication in Europe
Propeller Health today announced a collaboration with Novartis to co-package the Propeller digital health platform with Enerzair® Breezhaler® (QVM149; indacaterol acetate, glycopyrronium bromide and mometasone furoate [IND/GLY/MF]), a recently approved Novartis...
PRNewswire: SMARTcare Software Raises Additional Venture Investment to Accelerate Growth
SMARTcare Software, Inc., today announced completion of its latest funding round led by the Idea Fund and Rock River Capital with participation from Pablo Capital, MUKC Fund I, and the Chippewa Valley Angels Investment Network. The additional investment will further...
WisconsinINNO: Your next lobster dinner could come from a lab in Wisconsin
A new startup in Madison is developing methods to bring crustacean delicacies to the dinner table—not by harvesting the creatures from the sea, but by growing the meat in a lab. Cultured Decadence is the latest company to emerge from the growing cellular aquaculture...
WisBusiness: Fiveable: Closes $1.2M funding round & announces fellowship program
- On the heels of closing a $1.2M funding round, Fiveable, a social learning platform dedicated to making test prep resources and support accessible to all students, is seeking four enthusiastic, passionate, and creative recent grads to join their 9-month fellowship...
Milwaukee Business Journal: Can a $50M fund for diverse founders change the face of Milwaukee’s tech scene?
Last fall Amanda DoAmaral was pitching her startup Fiveable to a group of angel investors at a country club in Tennessee. Early on during the pitch event DoAmaral, a woman of color, approached a White investor during a meet and greet to introduce herself. As she...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Wisconsin early stage companies raised record dollars in 2019
Wisconsin’s venture capital ecosystem continues to mature in 2019 after the state’s early stage firms raised a record of more than $450 million in venture capital. Using public reports, filings and surveys, the Wisconsin Technology Council and its Tech Council...
WisconsinINNO: New data shows WI startups raised record amount of funding in 2019
New data shows that Wisconsin tech companies raised a record amount of venture capital funding in 2019, even though total deal volume in the state remained flat. The Madison-based Wisconsin Technology Council and its Tech Council Investor Networks released...
InsideWis: Sense of urgency evident in WEDC report on COVID-19 economic recovery
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Missy Hughes, the secretary of Wisconsin’s leading economic development agency, doesn’t need much lecturing on the shortcomings of broadband penetration in rural Wisconsin. Her family’s home sits at the end of a rural road in southwest...
Guest column: It’s time for us to build America 5.0
By Kaleem Caire I was pleased to see that Princeton University’s Board of Trustees recently voted to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from their School of Public and International Affairs. I cannot tell you how disheartening it has been all of my life to walk by statues...
Milwaukee Business Journal: Direct Supply partners with San Francisco company on safety tech for elderly
Direct Supply, the Milwaukee-based technology, distribution and consulting company serving the senior care industry, is teaming up with a California health care tech company to develop safety innovation that can reduce the number of falls that take place among the...