THE NEWSROOM

Amanda Savage, 33, is a married mother of one. She works full-time at Plexus in Neenah and, in her spare time, she's a Dasher for DoorDash. Savage is following the popular trend of using delivery or ride sharing apps as a secondary means to make more income for her...

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...

Brookfield-based Patina Solutions Group Inc. has been acquired by Los Angeles-based Korn Ferry, a global organizational consulting firm. Patina Solutions provides companies with experienced executives for key projects and interim positions. Terms of the deal were not...

The top executive of Brookfield-based financial technology firm Fiserv Inc. received a sizeable increase in his overall compensation in 2021 — his first full calendar year as CEO of the company — but earned less last year than his predecessor did in the year prior....

Bill Nye — yes, the “Science Guy” — is coming to Madison later this month to talk climate change. Nye will speak on the UW-Madison campus at 7 p.m. April 25 as part of the Wisconsin Union’s Distinguished Lecture Series. The event was initially scheduled for April 2020...

Eight Wisconsin residents are included in Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s billionaires. Here they are, with their ranking on the Forbes World’s Billionaires List and links to their profiles on the Forbes website: 104. John Menard, Jr., $16.6 billion,...

April marks the Doyenne Group’s 10th year in business, the organization announced recently. “After 10 years, our organization has certainly grown and changed,” Doyenne Group Executive Director Heather Wentler said. “To be able to stay open 10 years is a great...

Madison-based Fetch Rewards Inc. has closed a funding round worth $240 million, bringing the company’s total funding to over $500 million. The grocery tech startup’s valuation has also increased to over $2.5 billion, a $1.5 billion valuation increase since this time...

The chief mental health officer for federal Veterans Administration medical centers across much of the upper Midwest will keynote a Tuesday, April 12 forum on suicide prevention and awareness to be held in Appleton. Dr. Edward Landrath, the chief mental health officer...

After a more than yearlong public planning process involving hundreds of residents, business owners, institutions and community leaders, the Kenosha Common Council adopted a master plan Monday for an innovation neighborhood on the city's 107-acre former Chrysler...

Hartland-based Transcendent, an IT solutions provider, has been acquired by Miami-based Airiam, a newly formed managed IT and digital transformation company with a  focus on cybersecurity. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Airiam recently formed as an IT managed...

Wisconsin-based venture capital firm gener8tor Management LLC is known for its prestigious equity startup accelerator programs and the dozens of free early-stage entrepreneurship programs it runs nationwide. But the firm is also affiliated with a lesser-known angel...

Editor’s note: Yi Hu’s company, My Hearing Care, is a finalist in the 2022 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest. A UW-Milwaukee engineer aims to introduce a new cheaper and more accessible hearing aid to the market next year. Yi Hu is an associate professor of...

The Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce is seeking applicants for its newly announced LGBTQ+ Entrepreneur Bootcamp. The eight-week program will help LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs launch and accelerate their varying businesses. “Empowering Wisconsin’s LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs to...

Advocate Aurora Enterprises, the investment arm of Milwaukee and Downers Grove, Illinois-based Advocate Aurora Health, has acquired MobileHelp, a Florida-based provider of remote patient monitoring and personal emergency response systems. MobileHelp, based in Boca...

Could the number of people visiting a company’s Wikipedia page predict the company’s stock price? What about the number of times a company is mentioned in a popular investing channel on Reddit? Or the amount the company is spending on corporate lobbying? Would knowing...

Right now, Racine has the most electric buses of any fleet in the state with nine. But Belle City won’t be in the lead for long. Madison will use $41.6 million in federal funding to buy 27 electric buses for the coming first phase of the city’s bus rapid transit...