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With customers like Wisconsin's We Energies, New York's Consolidated Edison Inc. and Califonia's Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Milwaukee-based Marquette Energy Analytics forecasts more than 20% of the country's natural gas usage. Energy forecasting has historically...
Wisconsin Inno: Meet the startups selected for the 2022 Summerfest Tech Pitch Competition
Eight startups from around the country and world — including three with ties to southeast Wisconsin — were selected to present their companies at this year's Summerfest Tech Pitch Competition in Milwaukee on June 30, according to a Thursday announcement. The startups...
Milwaukee Business Journal: Kenosha’s former Chrysler plant is slated to become an innovation district
At its height, the Chrysler factory in Kenosha employed more than 10,000 workers. More than a decade since its closure, environmental cleanup of the contaminated site is largely complete and the 107-acre parcel sits empty. Aiming to retain and draw young talent, the...
WisBusiness: the Podcast with Scott Suder, president of the Wisconsin Paper Council
This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Scott Suder, president of the Wisconsin Paper Council. Suder provides an update on the council’s ongoing efforts to land an up to $100 million federal grant for the state’s paper industry. After being selected...
WisBusiness: MMAC survey finds tempered optimism among business leaders
The latest MMAC business outlook survey finds company leaders “more tempered in their optimism” due to inflation and persistent labor shortages. Bret Mayborne, economic research director for the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, said business leaders in...
InsideWis: Up the river with a paddle: Wisconsin River investors making waves
By Tom Still PLOVER, Wis. – The village and town of Plover near Stevens Point are not unlike many mid-sized communities in Wisconsin, with tidy homes, stores, schools, restaurants, parks and more. But Plover has something hard to find in most other places: It has an...
Wisconsin Inno: Kenosha Emerging Leaders Academy planned at former Brown Bank site
A program designed to create opportunities for youth, and a talent pipeline for local colleges and employers, is expected to open in Kenosha's former Brown Bank building by next spring. Known as the Kenosha Emerging Leaders Academy (KELA), the initiative is a...
Wisconsin Inno: Marquette’s new Innovation Alley director to connect students and companies
Connecting business and engineering students to give them real-world multidisciplinary experience, developing innovative leaders that can solve industry problems, and better collaborating with companies are key for Marquette University's Innovation Alley initiative...
Wisconsin Inno: Exact Sciences buys biotech to advance multi-cancer test goal
Cancer diagnostics company Exact Sciences Corp. has purchased OmicEra Diagnostics, a German startup specializing in proteomics, or large-scale protein analysis. The deal closed Monday, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In an...
How Kenosha rebuild can help a larger region: Learn more at May 19 luncheon in Wauwatosa
Redevelopment of 107 acres of brownfield once home to a Chrysler Corp. assembly plant stands to help Kenosha, but what are possible benefits of the Kenosha Innovation Neighborhood throughout southeast Wisconsin? Learn more Thursday, May 19, at the Tech Council...
Nuclear power: Part of a decarbonized future? Learn more at May 24 Tech Council luncheon
A proposal by La Crosse-based Dairyland Power Cooperative to build a “next-generation” nuclear power plant reflects a global renewal of interest in atomic energy to fight climate change and cut reliance on unstable oil and gas sources while meeting core electricity...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Froedtert & MCW opens community hospital in Mequon
The Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health network opened a new community hospital today in Mequon, located at 11421 N. Port Washington Road, across the street from the Froedtert & MCW Mequon Health Center. Froedtert Community Hospital – Mequon is...
WEDC: Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference scheduled for June 1-2 in Milwaukee
The Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference, among the largest events targeted for entrepreneurs in the upper Midwest, will return to Milwaukee on June 1-2. The 20th annual conference, titled “Putting Early Stage Pieces Together,” will be an in-person event at the...
Wisconsin Public Radio: Central Wisconsin business groups say worker shortage is a dire threat to region
Central Wisconsin businesses will seek to recruit recently discharged members of the U.S. military, people with disabilities and those who've been incarcerated. Those are components of an effort promoted by local business groups seeking to address a workforce shortage...
Wisconsin Inno: Milwaukee startup raises $4 million to help make decarbonizing heavy industry affordable
A Milwaukee startup developing devices to make climate-friendly industrial production more affordable has raised $4.2 million to pilot its technology and grow its team, the company said Thursday. Advanced Ionics is developing industrial electrolyzers that produce...
The Cap Times: Maydm head Christina Outlay works to get underrepresented youth into STEM
Christina Outlay was born and raised on the west side of Chicago. She grew up in the North Lawndale neighborhood, an area that was central for community organizing during the civil rights and Black Power movements. Outlay has extensive experience in the STEM fields....
WiSys: WiSys invests in the Winnow Fund, names fund Managing Director Richelle Martin as WiSys ‘Venture Capitalist-in-Residence’
In its continuing effort to bring statewide resources to local entrepreneurs, WiSys has named the Winnow Fund’s Richelle Martin as WiSys’ “Venture Capitalist-in-Residence.” Working with the statewide network of innovation hubs, known as WiSys VentureHomes®, Martin...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Milwaukee-based startup Advanced Ionics closes $4.2 million funding round
Milwaukee-based startup Advanced Ionics, Inc., a manufacturer of electrolyzers, has closed a $4.2 million funding round led by Boston-based Clean Energy Ventures. SWAN Impact Network of Dripping Springs, Texas also took part in the funding round. The company’s...
BizTimes Milwaukee: WEDC awards $34 million to help support small businesses
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. (WEDC) has awarded approximately $34 million so far to over 3,400 small businesses and nonprofit organizations in the state through the Main Street Bounceback Program. The goal of the program is to provide financial support to...
Wisconsin Public Radio: UW-Madison chancellor finalists named
Five finalists have been named in the search for the next University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor. Chancellor Rebecca Blank, the second-longest serving leader of the state's flagship university, will step down in at the end of May to become the president of...