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All the news including "Tech Council News Service" and "Inside Wisconsin"Milwaukee Business Journal: Jud Snyder named BMO Wealth Management regional president of northern states
BMO Wealth Management, a brand name of BMO Financial Group, named Jud Snyder the new regional president of northern states, which includes Wisconsin. Snyder has worked with BMO Harris his entire 27-year carer, beginning with M&I Bank, which was acquired by BMO in...
Madison Startups: Quiver Quantitative Raises $2M
Quiver Quantitative, which provides tools and dashboards for retail investors, announced recently that it closed a $2 million financing round led by Allos Ventures. According to a release, the company will use the funds for user growth, new proprietary datasets and...
Cap Times: UW-Madison extends program to pay tuition for future teachers
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will extend its Wisconsin Teacher Pledge for another year in an aim to address teacher shortages across the state and nation. The program within the School of Education pays the equivalent of in-state tuition and fees, as well as...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Summit Credit Union to acquire Commerce State Bank
Cottage Grove-based Summit Credit Union plans to acquire West Bend-based Commerce State Bank in a deal that will expand its southeastern Wisconsin presence. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the third quarter, were not disclosed. If completed, it will...
The Center Square: Here’s How Many New Business Applications Wisconsin Received in 2021
Small businesses are an economic pillar in the United States. Businesses with fewer than 500 employees account for two-thirds of net new jobs in the U.S. and generate 44% of economic activity nationwide, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration. Though...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Versiti plans new building to accommodate more than 100 new jobs on Milwaukee Regional Medical Center campus
Versiti Inc. plans to develop a new blood research building on the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center campus that could house more than 100 new jobs. The new facility would be designed to accommodate the growing team of researchers at Versiti’s Blood Research Institute...
InsideWis: Federal R&D investment has pathway forward – now what for Wisconsin?
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – In a State of the Union speech that focused on the war in Ukraine, inflation, COVID, infrastructure and more, President Biden was adamant on one point that should be a bipartisan priority for Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest. Biden vowed to...
From Fontana to Grantsburg, 55 entries advance in 2022 Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest
Fifty-five entries from 24 communities have advanced to the semi-final round of the 19th annual Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest, contest producers announced. Contestants emerged in first-round competition involving an independent panel of about 80 judges...
Leader Telegram: Universities spend COVID relief funds on student grants, revenue loss, pandemic impact
UW-Eau Claire and UW-Stout have allocated eight-figure federal COVID relief funds to pay for vaccine clinics, COVID tests, remote learning, emergency student grants and to shore up financial impacts from millions in lost housing, dining and tuition revenue. U.S....
Wisconsin Inno: Milwaukee Founder/Fest at Eagleknit will award microgrant to winning entrepreneur
The third Milwaukee Founder/Fest event will be March 24 at the Eagleknit Innovation Hub in Walker's Point, the startup founder group announced Wednesday. New this time, the group will award more than $2,500 to one participating startup founder that attendees will vote...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Quiver Quantitative closes $2 million funding round
Madison-based fintech startup Quiver Quantitative has closed a $2 million funding round. The company gathers alternative stock data from sources across the internet and then pulls the information together into a free online dashboard. Quiver Quantitative was started...
Wisconsin Inno: Madison fintech startup led by 22-year-old twin brothers just raised $2 million
Quiver Quantitative Inc. — a fintech platform that says it's bridging the data gap between Main Street and Wall Street investors — has raised $2 million, the Madison startup said Wednesday. The round was led by Allos Ventures, which has offices in Cincinnati and...
Milwaukee Business Journal: When Exact Sciences, the firm behind the Cologuard commercials, expects its first profit
Madison-based cancer screening test maker Exact Sciences Corp. expects to turn profitable in 2024, the company's chief financial officer and chief operating officer Jeff Elliott recently told investors. "We're very confident in delivering adjusted EBITDA profitability...
WisBusiness: Jason Fields, president and CEO of the Madison Region Economic Partnership, ripped how workforce development resources have been allocated to minority communities
"I have to be honest and very candid ... 90 percent of the stuff that you see directed toward people of color is garbage," he said yesterday during a morning business event hosted in partnership with the Fitchburg Chamber Visitor and Business Bureau. "And here's why I...
Wisconsin Inno: Summerfest Tech will be back for a two-day event in 2022
In its fifth year, Summerfest Tech will be a two-day event at venues across Milwaukee, the event organizer Milwaukee World Festival Inc. announced Tuesday. The innovation-focused event will take place Wednesday, June 29, and Thursday, June 30, at locations including...
“WisBiz: The Show’ features Kathy Henrich of MKE Tech Hub
Welcome to “WisBusiness: The Show,” a twice-a-month Web show covering state business news and issues. MADISON – The latest episode of “WisBusiness.com: The Show,” MKE Tech Hub Coalition CEO Kathy Henrich talks about how Wisconsin is positioned in the battle for tech...
Cap Times: Madison cybersecurity training company Infosec sells for $191 million
When Jack Koziol launched his one-man cybersecurity training company Infosec in 2004, cybersecurity was the purview of a specialized few who sat in back rooms with other tech experts. Now, as cyber crimes make headlines, shutting down oil pipelines and holding...
UW-Madison: Unemployed Individuals to Job Openings Lowest in Decades
Preliminary estimates from December 2021 suggest there were 204,000 job openings and 86,000 unemployed individuals in the State of Wisconsin. When expressed as a ratio, the number of unemployed individuals per job opening was 0.42 (or almost 2.4 job openings for every...
WisBusiness: UW-Madison: Tuition credit initiative bolsters Wisconsin’s health care workforce during COVID-19 surge
A tuition credit will strengthen Wisconsin’s health care workforce by incentivizing nursing students at UW System schools to help staff hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and health care facilities in the state during the recent COVID-19 surge and its aftermath. The...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: ‘See ya next time’: How a neighborhood grocery store grew into today’s Kwik Trip phenomenon
There’s nothing more Wisconsin than a Kwik Trip. That is, until you take a look at the fan base and following that turned a convenience store into a phenomenon. Fifty-seven years after the first Kwik Trip opened in Eau Claire, Kwik Trip has grown from that one...