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Looking toward the expansion of Biocut Systems in a new headquarters under construction in Muskego, Jerry Jendusa remembered buying the company about five years ago when it was a standard tool and die manufacturing shop. An early project after Jendusa’s BreakThru...

After the pandemic slashed ridership, public transit agencies in the state could recoup lost funds by going electric, but not all agencies can cover the upfront costs. In Milwaukee County, at least 11 new electric buses could start running by next June. The county’s...

In the latest episode of “Talking Trade,” attorney lawyer Ngosong Fonkem discusses the “seismic trade shift” in global supply chains caused by sanctions on Russia. Fonkem, a trade compliance specialist with Chicago law firm Page Fura, notes “this is the first time...

– Implementation of the NEW BOOST™ for Hidden Talent initiative with African Heritage Inc. and New North Inc., the regional economic development corporation for the 18 counties of Northeast Wisconsin, continues to ramp up with the impactful assistance of...

Health eFilings announced today that it has been acquired by Alpha II, a healthcare revenue cycle solution provider. According to a release, the combined entity will offer a platform of revenue cycle solutions and clinical data analytics, optimizing revenue integrity...

Milwaukee-based CrossKudi has been named as a semifinalist in Black Ambition’s second annual entrepreneurship contest in the category of Web 3.0. The Black Ambition Prize is a tiered opportunity to compete for $1 million and learn with a network of talented founders...

Cohl Carter-Wright goes to work and squashes bugs. Video game bugs to be specific. Carter-Wright is one of eight quality assurance testers at Experis Games located at its parent company headquarters of ManpowerGroup. For nearly two months, Carter-Wright and his...

After 2021's record-shattering year for U.S. startups, which saw year-over-year venture capital investments nearly double and mega deals of $50 million or more reach never-before-seen heights, 2022 has been a different story for startups. Instead of VC investments,...

Green Bay venture capital firm TitletownTech has invested in 23 startups as part of its first fund. And while it's reserving capital in the $25 million fund to double down on some of those companies, its first portfolio is complete. "We have made all the investments...

Fetch Rewards, America's No. 1 consumer-rewards app, has surpassed 5 million daily active users, according to engagement metrics from Data.ai. Adding over 1 million to that daily active user number in the past month alone, the company is seeing widespread interest and...

The Department of Workforce Development (DWD) today released the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) preliminary employment estimates for the month of July 2022. The state added 10,000 private-sector jobs and 9,900 total nonfarm jobs and the state's unemployment...

Wisconsin added an estimated 10,000 private sector jobs in July with most of the increase coming from gains in accommodation and food service, according to data released Thursday by the Department of Workforce Development. At the same time, the state’s unemployment...

Milwaukee-based Frontdesk, a short-term apartment rental company, is continuing to show it is one of the top competitors in the industry with the acquisition of several properties from one of its now shuttered competitors. Jesse DePinto, co-founder and chief product...

Immuto Scientific has been awarded a $2.5 million Phase II SBIR grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the company announced recently. According to a release, the grant will help expand the company’s research and development efforts. “This SBIR grant will...

A videography startup working with businesses and nonprofits in Madison has won the Doyenne Group’s annual 5x5x5 pitch contest. Jamie Perez, a former TV news reporter and founder of Beyond Words Productions, pitched her company yesterday during the virtual...

Janesville-based Illuminated Holdings Inc., the parent company of SHINE Technologies, has named Tom D’Orazio as CEO of Phoenix LLC. Both SHINE Technologies and Phoenix are owned by Illuminated Holdings and Phoenix operates as the industrial imaging arm of the...

SHINE Technologies, LLC (SHINE), a next-generation fusion technology company, today announced Tom D’Orazio has joined as the CEO of Phoenix LLC (Phoenix). SHINE and Phoenix are both wholly owned subsidiaries of Illuminated Holdings, and Phoenix operates the industrial...

A finance expert at UW-Milwaukee expects Milwaukee’s national profile will be elevated in 2024 when the Republican National Convention comes to Wisconsin’s largest city. “Presumably this is going to be on all the cable news networks, and there are going to be eyeballs...