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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...