INSIDE WISCONSIN

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Admit it: Somewhere in the back of your head, you’re worried that Artificial Intelligence will somehow triumph over your own Above-Average Intelligence. You suspect a new computing age powered by AI will make your job obsolete, or that a...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Known to many I-94 travelers as the exit with an outlet mall, the Wisconsin village of Johnson Creek will take on a different identity this fall when the first “AgTech Venture Day” draws a mix of investors and young companies to town. The...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – One of Wisconsin’s lagging economic indicators over decades has been “net migration,” the term for describing the numerical difference between how many people move from the state versus those who move in. There are indications that...

By Tom Still MILWAUKEE, Wis. – At the lakeside unveiling of a $100-million corporate venture fund, the chairman of the Foxconn Technology Group said he was pleased, as the “new kid on the block,” to be a part of a team that included Advocate Aurora, Johnson Controls...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – When the venture capital arm of American Family Insurance launched in 2013, AmFam Ventures was ahead of the curve in terms of corporate investing in that early stage asset class. Seven exits and more than 25 portfolio investments later,...

By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – A collection of headlines in recent weeks spoke to the overall health of Wisconsin’s economy, even if other indicators demonstrate not everything is rosy – even in boom times. For the first time, the total value of property in Madison and...