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All the news including "Tech Council News Service" and "Inside Wisconsin"Morgridge Institute: New national imaging center has potential to transform medicine
A national research initiative announced today will place the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the forefront of a revolution in imaging fostered by cryo-electron microscopy and cryo-electron tomography — technologies that can illuminate life at the atomic scale. The...
Milwaukee Business Journal: Caregiving company founded in Milwaukee raises $3M, including investment from gener8tor
TCARE, a company founded in Wisconsin but now based in St. Louis, said it will expand its St. Louis footprint after closing on a $3 million financing that included a local investor and prominent insurance firms. Venture capital firm SixThirty, based in St. Louis, led...
WisPolitics: Concordia University’s Daniel Sem interview, co-author of “Purple Solutions: A bipartisan roadmap to better health care in America.”
Sem serves as dean and professor of business, professor of pharmaceutical sciences and director of technology transfer at Concordia in Mequon. He also serves as director of the Rx Think Tank, focused on health care policy reform. "I think the biggest problem in...
PR Newswire: TCARE closes $3M in financing to support family caregivers with participation of SixThirty, Aflac Ventures and Blu Ventures
TCARE Inc., the only evidence-based*, CMS 1115-approved, and federally accredited family caregiver support platform, announced that it has closed a $3 million financing round. The round was led by SixThirty Ventures and joined by Aflac Ventures, BlueCross BlueShield...
InsideWis: Even in fractious times, the need for a vital, secure economy can unite lawmakers
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – In some ways, Wisconsin’s Mike Gallagher and California’s Ro Khanna make for a political odd couple. Gallagher is a conservative Republican who represents the Green Bay-anchored 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of...
Milwaukee Business Journal: Wauwatosa insurance tech company Zywave acquired by private investment firm
Zywave Inc., the Wauwatosa-based insurance software-as-a-service company, has been sold to another private investment firm in California. Aurora Capital Partners in Los Angeles has sold the company to Santa Monica, California-based Clearlake Capital Group. Terms of...
WisBusiness: The Podcast with Kathy Henrich, Milwaukee Tech Hub
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: The Podcast” features Kathy Henrich, CEO of the Milwaukee Tech Hub Coalition, created to boost technology growth in southeastern Wisconsin. The Tech Hub launched on Monday its second cohort of FOR-M — a free, three-month virtual...
WisBusiness: Endless Frontier Act to revitalize, transform Midwest industries
U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher said a new bill he is pushing will not only revitalize industries, but transform them. The bipartisan bill, co-sponsored by the Green Bay Republican, calls for $100 billion to build resources in advancing science and technology research and...
WisBusiness: Wisconsin enjoys high health care value when key indicators of cost and quality are measured, according to a new study released yesterday by HC Trends.
"As Wisconsin residents face the upcoming election amid the continued uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, health care and its associated costs are top of mind for residents of the Badger State," said Eric Borgerding, president and CEO of the Wisconsin...
WisconsinINNO: Teletherapy practice offers free ‘self-care’ sessions to educators, first responders
A “hybrid” therapy practice specializing in online services is offering free self-care sessions to educators and health care professionals experiencing heightened levels of stress during the pandemic. United Counseling and Wellness is a therapy practice that provides...
WisconsinINNO: Milwaukee startup Steady Shot aims to ease the pain of insulin shots
A Milwaukee-based startup focused on easing the pain of daily insulin shots recently celebrated its best sales month after working for two years to take its needle-stabilizing product to the pharmaceutical market. Steady Shot is an add-on for diabetes insulin pen...
Lucid News: Usona puts new psilocybin synthesis method in the public domain
The nonprofit Usona Institute has developed a new technique to synthesize kilograms of pharmaceutical grade psilocybin and placed this information in the public domain where it cannot be patented. In a paper published in the journal ACS Omega, Usona scientists...