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Milwaukee, Wis., June 13, 2024 – The Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment (AHW) is offering seed grants up to $50,000 for community-led projects that create new strategies, test innovative ideas, and foster collaboration to address health challenges in Wisconsin....
InsideWis: Business plan contest is sampling of Wisconsin’s diverse startups
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – I sat down the other day next to a familiar-looking fellow who, like me, was attending a real-estate seminar produced by business magazine InBusiness. I quickly figured out that table-mate Joe Carpenter, an accountant in his full-time...
Wisconsin Public Radio: UW Health nurses using AI to improve patient messaging
As the health care industry continues to struggle with staffing, UW Health is looking to artificial intelligence to help nurses respond to patient messages more efficiently. More than 75 nurses within the health system are piloting a generative AI tool that drafts a...
Cap Times: Does this hemp battery company have the energy to replace lithium?
Before most batteries effectively powered the world by using lithium ions to send a shock to the anode, or positive end, they used zinc anodes combined with mercury — which we now know can be deadly. “In a lot of cases, the only thing battery companies have really...
Center for Technology Commercialization: $700,000 in state matching grants advance 8 innovative small businesses
Eight small businesses in Wisconsin will receive up to $700,000 to commercialize their innovations, thanks to the SBIR Advance program’s latest round of funding. The state matching grant program provides assistance to companies in the process of completing a project...
UW-Madison Innovate Network: Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Winners Announced
Congratulations to grand prize winner CranioSure in the 21st annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. Their med-tech app, designed to assist in the early detection of infant skull conditions, was created from technology developed at UW-Madison. The startup...
Wisconsin Inno: Madison medtech, Pewaukee ice provider honored at Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference
CranioSure, a Madison-based company that has designed a mobile app to screen infant head shapes to detect risk of craniosyntosis – accurately and early enough to help avoid surgeries – has been named the winner of the 21st annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan...
Fore! The Oaks in Cottage Grove site of July 31 Tech Council golf outing to benefit BPC
Join us Wednesday, July 31, at The Oaks in Cottage Grove for a scramble golf outing to support winners of the 2025 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest and to celebrate summer with members and friends of the Wisconsin Technology Council. Click here to register...
BizTimes: Realta Fusion working with U.S. Department of Energy to develop fusion power plants
Madison-based Realta Fusion, an early-stage fusion company spun out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is one of eight companies chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy to help advance research and development for fusion power plants. Realta will receive an...
WisBusiness: SHINE supplying key material to UK cancer therapy company
SHINE Technologies is supplying UK-based Blue Earth Therapeutics with a key material for a prostate cancer clinical trial, the Janesville company says. In a recent release, SHINE announced its partnership with the business, which develops radiopharmaceutical...
WisBusiness: Reinhart: Welcomes Scott Fiducci to its corporate law practice
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. (Reinhart) announces that Scott Fiducci has joined the firm as a shareholder in its Corporate Law Practice. Fiducci focuses his practice on counseling clients on mergers and acquisitions transactions and other strategic matters, debt...
Former Involta, now Ark Data Center, hosts grand opening
American co-location firm Involta, which has rebranded to Ark Data Centers, will hold a grand opening for its northeast Wisconsin data center starting 1 p.m. June 12 at W. 6149 Old Highway Road, Menasha. Refreshments will be served and tours of the data center will...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Madison-based medtech company wins 2024 Governor’s Business Plan Contest
Madison-based medtech company CranioSure is the winner of this year’s Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. The startup, founded by Dr. Daniel Cho, has designed a mobile app that screens infant head shapes and can detect craniosynostosis early enough to avoid...
Med-tech app that detects infant skull condition earlier wins 2024 Biz Plan Contest
CranioSure, a Madison-based company that has designed a mobile app to screen infant head shapes to detect risk of craniosyntosis – accurately and early enough to help avoid surgeries – is the grand prize winner of the 21st annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan...
MKE Startup News: And the winners are….
The Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest began in January with nearly 150 applicants and concluded this afternoon. The 13 remaining contests pitched their companies to a judging body composed of key members of the Wisconsin startup ecosystem on June 6 in...
WisBusiness: Madison-based CranioSure has won this year’s Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest for its app that can detect an infant skull disorder called craniosynostosis
This disorder is characterized by the premature fusion of babies’ skull bones, which can require surgery to correct if not caught early enough. Ordinarily, the fibrous connective structure between these bones remain flexible, allowing the skull to grow along with the...
SHINE Technologies: SHINE Technologies Partners with Blue Earth Therapeutics for First Supply of Ilumira from Its New Facility
SHINE Technologies, LLC (SHINE), a pioneer in next-generation fusion-based technology, today announced a new partnership with Blue Earth Therapeutics, a Bracco company and recognized leader in the development of innovative radiopharmaceuticals. SHINE has provided the...
InsideWis: Just catching up: Some follow-ups on past columns and news
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Writing a weekly column is always a snapshot in time. Things can and do happen to advance the story. Here are a few examples tied to recent “Inside Wisconsin” columns: Wisconsin links to Microsoft: In a column dated May 8, I wrote about...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Madison-based Understory closes $15 million Series A round
Madison-based insurtech firm Understory has closed a $15 million Series A funding round. The oversubscribed funding round was led by San Francisco-based True Ventures and Prelude Ventures. “With the infusion of this funding, we are poised to bring our proprietary risk...
Need one excuse to attend ‘Treps Conference? Here are 10 good reasons to be there June 5-6
Hundreds of people are set to attend the 2024 Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference in Milwaukee. Here are 10 reasons to join them Wednesday and Thursday for one of the Midwest’s premier events for entrepreneurs. Online registration is open until 5 p.m. on Sunday, June...
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.@RealtaFusion is working with the U.S. Department of @Energy to develop fusion power plants. via @biztimesmedia #energy #startup
Realta Fusion working with U.S. Department of Energy to develop fusion power plants
Realta Fusion, an early-stage fusion company, is helping the DOE advance research and development for fusion power plants.
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.@shinefusion is supplying a key material to a UK #cancer #therapy company. https://loom.ly/yzKFkF4 via @wisbusiness #innovation
.@reinhartlaw welcomes Scott Fiducci to its corporate #law practice. https://loom.ly/4cSkONM via @wisbusiness #Wisconsin #business