THE NEWSROOM

Sue Marks, the founder and chief executive officer of Brookfield-based Cielo, will step down as CEO, and turn the role over to Marissa Geist, the company’s chief operating officer. Marks will continue to serve on the board for Cielo, a provider of recruitment process...

Delafield-based data company Synthetaic has closed a $13 million Series A financing round that included an investment from Green Bay-based TitletownTech. New York-based Lupa Systems led the funding round. The money will be used to scale Synthetaic’s Rapid Automatic...

Michael Cudahy, one of Milwaukee’s most prominent entrepreneurs and philanthropists, died on March 11 at age 97. After building a successful company that he eventually sold to GE in the late 1990s, Cudahy turned his attention to philanthropy, leaving his stamp on the...

The head of UW-Madison’s School of Computer, Data and Information Sciences says technology education can play a key role in addressing the state’s workforce issues. In a recent interview, CDIS founding director Tom Erickson highlighted related efforts ranging from...

Less than two years after moving home to Milwaukee and establishing a local office for Silicon Valley-based software company OpenGov Inc., David Reeves stepped down as president of the growing firm, which has said it will hire at least 100 employees in Milwaukee. But...

The House passed a 2022 spending plan on Wednesday evening, which will fund the federal government through September. The $1.5 trillion-dollar bipartisan appropriations package provides significant funding for University of Wisconsin-Madison initiatives and includes...

The parent company of a Madison-based investment group that claims to solicit money for UW-Madison alumni-connected ventures even though it isn’t affiliated with the university settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission late last week for allegedly misleading...

We don’t see with our eyes. Technically, we see with our brain. Ava Udvadia, a professor and researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, explained that our optic nerves help convey the light our eyes detect into a language the brain understands. Click here to...

Wisconsin lost 2,900 private sector jobs in January and the state’s unemployment rate declined to 3%, according to figures released by the Department of Workforce Development. Data for employment in various industries and the unemployment rate comes from two separate...

This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with Jenni Le, an associate with Venture Investors Health Fund. The firm specializes in health technology such as medical devices, pharmaceuticals, digital health and diagnostics, with a focus on early-stage startup...

A recent survey of business leaders in Wisconsin found strong support for increasing K-12 funding for STEM fields, as well as industrial and technical programming. The Wisconsin Employer Survey from Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce found 91 percent of...

Madison-based TDS Telecommunications is scheduled to break ground on a new fiber optic network project in Brookfield late this summer that will give 18,000 addresses access to 2Gigabit residential internet and up to 10Gigabit dedicated fiber connections for...

Former Foxconn executive Alan Yeung, one of the most prominent executives in the company’s arrival in Wisconsin, has written a memoir detailing the site selection process for the Foxconn project in Mount Pleasant. Titled “Flying Eagle: How Terry Gou and Foxconn...

University of Wisconsin-River Falls agricultural engineering and agricultural engineering technology students are researching ways to make older combines more efficient and improve profitability for smaller farmers. The research is part of a $150,000 United States...

Promega and FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics Inc. announced recently that they will partner to advance novel assay development for drug discovery. According to a release, the multi-year licensing agreement will integrate some technologies from the two companies...

NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, LLC, a global innovator in the development, production and commercialization of radiopharmaceuticals used for therapeutic applications and medical imaging, and Convergent Therapeutics, Inc., a clinical stage radiopharmaceutical...

Dr. Jenya Iuzzini-Seigel, assistant professor of speech pathology and audiology in Marquette University’s College of Health Sciences, has been awarded a $1,156,000 grant from the Once Upon a Time Foundation for a randomized control trial that compares different...

Department of Workforce Development Secretary-designee Amy Pechacek today announced the availability of Wisconsin Fast Forward (WFF) funding of $3.1 million in for employer-led, customized worker training grants and urged employers to collaborate with local partners...