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Milwaukee-based investment bank and financial services company Baird is the only Wisconsin company named to Fortune magazine’s annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. This is the 19th year in a row that Baird has made the list. The company ranks 27th on the...

A new biodegradable gel improves the immune system’s ability to keep cancer at bay after tumors are surgically removed. The gel, tested in mice, releases drugs and special antibodies that simultaneously deplete immune-blocking cells called macrophages from the...

The new law alters the state's Qualified New Business Venture program, which provides investors with a 25 percent state tax credit on investments in qualifying companies. One of the conditions for businesses in the program is having at least 51 percent of their...

With more than $500 million in financing raised to date, 13 million active users and around 720 employees, Madison-based Fetch Rewards runs a fast-growing consumer rewards app and digital marketing platform that gives users free points for uploading receipts and...

In the latest episode of “Talking Trade,” Michael Best Strategies Principal Mike Dankler provides an update on the latest sanctions against Russia and the effect on trade and commodity prices. “One area where the U.S. and EU and others haven’t really gone the full way...

The head of the Urban League of Greater Madison says “help is on the way” for minority entrepreneurs now that construction has begun on the Black Business Hub. “We have to take some risks, because we know that it is time that significant investments be made with Black...

A venture capital-backed firm from San Francisco whose CEO hopes to one day be the “Starbucks of health care” is expanding to Wisconsin to open urgent-care clinics and partner on specialty care with the Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin health network....

Bird Global Inc. began testing its first-of-its-kind “smart sidewalk protection” riding detection technology this week in West Hollywood, California. The technology, which aims to prevent shared scooters from operating on city sidewalks, has been piloted in Milwaukee,...

The Urban League of Greater Madison broke ground Friday on what is expected to be a transformative Black Business Hub on the south side of Madison. Gov. Tony Evers, Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway, state Rep. Sheila Stubbs, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi and hundreds of...

As part of this annual event, put on by the Wisconsin Technology Council, finalists will submit a 15-minute pitch deck to a panel of about 75 judges. Their plans include details on their product or service, target customers, market opportunity, competitors and more....

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Ayla Annac, co-founder, president and CEO of Madison-based InvivoSciences. This pre-clinical stage biotech company is developing a method for creating tissue samples from patients’ blood, urine or skin to test...

Wisconsin financial technology startup Sequoir has secured seed funding ahead of the expected rollout of its blockchain technology to banks and credit unions starting June 1. The Green Bay-based company raised $1.7 million in a seed funding round led by Grey Elephant...

The Advocate Aurora Research Institute will extend its laboratory and clinical research capabilities to emerging biotech companies through its new sponsorship of Madison biohealth startup incubator Forward Biolabs. Advocate Aurora aims to accelerate new technologies...

Around a year after consumer loyalty app maker Fetch Rewards announced it had raised Series D venture capital financing at a billion-dollar valuation, the Madison-based company announced Thursday it has raised another $240 million in equity and debt to fuel its rapid...

David Reeves is a Milwaukee native. He got his first taste of entrepreneurship watching his parents operate their fast food restaurants at Grand Avenue Mall. As president of OpenGov, a cloud software provider for municipalities, he brought one of the company’s offices...

Wisconsin’s $18 billion paper industry, employing more than 30,000 people, faces a labor shortage even with the shutdown of mills that were a cornerstone of rural communities. The industry’s share of workers under age 25, at less than nine percent, is among the lowest...

Whether you are a recent high school graduate or a workforce veteran with 20 years of experience, paving the way to your goals can be a momentous, daunting and sometimes costly endeavor. But with the CareerHub at Milwaukee Area Technical College’s West Allis campus,...